Appendix K
Exemption of Qualification Exams for DCE Doctoral Program
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Applicant
Course Name
Signature of course
teacher
Registered student
numbers
Student No.
Semester /Course No.
Qualification Exam
Rank
Review Result（＊）
□ Passed
□ Not Passed
（＊）filled by the DCE.
Signature of DCE Chairman：ˍˍˍˍˍˍˍˍ
[Passed by voting of the DCE on 24 October 2007]
Item 5.6 in Requirements for Doctoral Program:
5.6. Students may apply for exemption of qualification exams subject to the following
group specific regulations:
5.6.1 Courses which may be exempted:
(1) Group A (Systems): Students may apply for exemption from any of
the five qualification exams.
(2) Group B (Wave): Students may apply for exemption from any of the
following six qualification exams:
Advanced Electromagnetics (corresponds to the course Advanced
Electromagnetics I)
Physics Mathematics
Antenna Theory
VLSI Design
Analog IC Design (corresponds to the course Analog IC I)
Passive Microwave Components and Circuits (corresponds to the
course Microwave Engineering I).
(3) Group C (SoC): Students may apply for exemption from the following
six courses offered by DCE:
VLSI Design
Semiconductor Device and Physics (corresponds to the course
Semiconductor Device and Physics I)
Analog IC (corresponds to the course Analog IC I)
Computer Architecture
Computer-Aided Circuit Design and Analysis
Algorithms
5.6.2
Criteria of exemption: A student may be exempted from a
qualification exam if s/he has completed the corresponding course in the
top 30% of the class (rounded to the nearest whole number), and the
number of students taking the course was no less than 10. For example,
if there are 35 students in the class, the top 30% of class means
round(30x0.3)=round(10.5)=11, meaning a student must be one of the
top eleven students in the class. See Appendix K for details.
5.6.3
Applicants must apply for exemption of courses completed within
the past two years from the application. For example, if a student
completed a course in the first semester of 2000, s/he must apply for
exemption of such course by the first semester of 2002.