Educa&on About Standardiza&on: A View from Taiwan
Dr. Kwang-­‐Cheng Chen, IEEE Fellow Dis&nguished Professor and Deputy Dean College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Na&onal Taiwan University Email: chenkc@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw Visi&ng Research Labs. of Electronics, MIT 2013 ITU-­‐CTIF-­‐GISFI Workshop
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Taiwan
Where is Taiwan Taipei
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9 A.k.a Formosa (from
Portuguese: Beautiful Island)
9 Home to almost 23 million
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9 Less than 400km long and
about 150km wide (about the
size of Switzerland and as
mountainous)
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Taiwan’s ICT Industry
Taiwan’s ICT Products WPMC 2012
TSMC and HTC currently Proposal
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Major Interna&onal Standards in Wireless Communica&ons p 3GPP ü WCDMA, LTE, LTE-­‐A p IEEE ü IEEE 802.11 ü IEEE 802.15 ü IEEE 802.16 ü IEEE 802.22 p Industrial Consor&ums ü Bluetooth ü UWB, Wireless USB ü WiMAX 2013 ITU-­‐CTIF-­‐GISFI Workshop
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Tradi&onal Courses in Universi&es p There are 167 universi&es in Taiwan, and na&onal universi&es taking the leadership p For most universi&es, courses centered at one or more standards are given, like ü GSM, CDMA Cellular, Digital Cellular Systems, Personal Communica&on Systems, etc. ü Wireless LANs, Zigbees, etc. ü Some project-­‐based experimental courses 2013 ITU-­‐CTIF-­‐GISFI Workshop
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Na&onal Taiwan University p  The best university in Taiwan, with 1% of Taiwan ü  ALL strong candidates to run for presiden&al elec&on of the na&on in the past and in the future ü  At any &me, at least 10 ministers from NTU ü  Taipei city major for decades p  College of EECS is one of the 11 colleges in NTU ü  EE ranked 24th in the world ü  A good number of outstanding NTUEE alumni •
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Members, Na&onal Academy of Engineering IEEE Fellows (say, 12 in class 1983) Founders, CEOs, CTOs, in industry, including TSMC, UMC, ASE, MediaTek, RealTek, AUO … Quanta, Asus, Acer, BenQ, … Garmin, Atheros Comm., … 4 out of 20 richest persons in Taiwan ü  Have been gehng best students in Taiwan for almost half-­‐century 2013 ITU-­‐CTIF-­‐GISFI Workshop
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NTU Educa&on Related to Wireless Standards p  As research oriented university, no specific course targe&ng specific standards p  General courses ü Mobile communica&ons ü Sensor networks ü Ad hoc networks ü (new) Wireless communica&ons ü Experiments in communica&on systems, in digital signal processing, IC design, embedded systems, robo&cs, data mining p  Research projects ü Na&onal projects ü Na&onal educa&on programs ü Industrial sponsored projects •  MediaTek, HTC, INTEL, IBM, … 2013 ITU-­‐CTIF-­‐GISFI Workshop
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Entrepreneurship: Small Form Factor Low Power Wireless Broadband Communica&ons (KC 2003) World’s first SD card solu&on with <160 mA and adopted by world first smart phone iPAQ via Panasonic module Solu&on for SONY’s PSP 2013 ITU-­‐CTIF-­‐GISFI Workshop
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HANDS-­‐ON EXPERIENCE FOR STUDENTS 2013 ITU-­‐CTIF-­‐GISFI Workshop
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Educa6on related to standards is gaining cri6cal importance and 2013 is ITU-­‐CTIF-­‐GISFI going to blossom. Workshop
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