Introduction
1. Introduction to SOC VLSI interconnect design and analysis
2. SOC design challenges and potential solutions
3. Power and signal integrity analysis and optimization

Interconnect modeling and simulation
4. Formulation of circuit equation
5. Solution of linear equations
6. Interconnect delay models
7. Laplace transformation and analysis
8. Transient simulation
9. Model order reduction
10. Interconnect modeling I: capacitance extraction
11. Interconnect modeling II: inductance extraction
12. Iterative solution of linear equations & application

Nonlinear circuit simulation
13. Solution of non-linear equations
14. Transient analysis of nonlinear dynamic circuits
15. Consistency, stability, convergence, local truncation error

Circuit optimization
16. Mathematical programming I: linear programming
17. Mathematical programming II: nonlinear programming
18. Mathematical programming III: geometric programming
19. Combinatorial optimization I: greedy algorithm
20. Combinatorial optimization II: dynamic programming College of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Main Campus Chung-Ping Chen 25 Wednesday 7,8,9 EE5043 3 Half Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinfornatics http://www.ee.ntu.edu.tw/en/

The use of light for scientific investigation in biomedical research and non-invasive diagnostics has become increasingly important and popular thanks to high sensitivity, minimum perturbation to living organisms, functionality and affordable cost of optical instruments enabled by recent advances in both photonic and electronic technologies. This course is designed to cover the principles, concepts, practical implementations and applications of optical spectroscopy and imaging techniques that are commonly used for biomedical sensing and diagnosis. The first part of the course introduces absorption, fluorescence, infrared, elastic scattering and Raman scattering spectroscopies. The second part of the course introduces various optical imaging techniques including conventional light microscopy techniques (phase contrast, darkfield, polarization, differential interference contrast, structured illumination), confocal microscopy, optical coherence tomography, multiphoton microscopy, quantitative phase microscopy and super-resolution imaging. Recent applications of various optical techniques in medical diagnostics will also be reviewed. The objective is to provide the students with a working knowledge of these techniques with extended goals of enabling the students to choose appropriate tools for related biomedical research and preparing the students for further development of instruments and applications. College of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Main Campus Sung Kung-Bin 20 Thursday 2,3,4 EE5132 3 Half Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering,

Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinfornatics http://www.ee.ntu.edu.tw/en/

This class will emphasize the major driving forces behind eCommerce : business development and strategy, technological innovations, and social controversies and impacts. We will analyse eCommerce , digital market, and e-business firms just as we would ordinary business and markets using concepts from economies, marketing, finance, sociology, philosophy, and information systems.

Important new developments happen almost every day in eCommerce and the Internet. We try to capture as many of these important new developments as possible in each session. We will cover many real-company examples and extensive business cases that place coverages in the context of actual eCommerce businesses.

We will devote some time to an examination of B2B eCommerce. We will also cover different types of marketplace ( e-distributors, e-procurements, exchanges and industry consortia ) to help students to understand this complex arena of e-commence . We will address important changes for eCommerce include dramatic price reduction in eCommerce infrastructure, the explosive growth in the mobile platform and expansion in the development of social technologies.

We will pay special attention throughout the class to the social and legal context of eCommerce. take advantage of the evolving world of opportunity offered by eCommerce, which is dramatically altering the way business is conducted and driving major shifts in the global economy.

We hope eCommerce concept students lean in this class will help make you valuable to future potential employers. The information students learn in this class will be valuable throughout students’ career . We expect that students will be able to participate in , and even lead , management discussions of eCommerce for your company. College of Management Main Campus *Restrict to 3rd-year and above.
*Restrict to students of College of Management. Jia-King Chang 50 Friday 7,8,9 GMBA5021 3 Half Global MBA, College of Management http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

This is an English course designed for docotor students of the Institue of Environmental Health and the Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene.Students are expected to be familiar with research methodology, data analysis, data interpretation, and the development trends in the field of environmental health, occupational mediicne, and industrial hygiene. Students are required to make presentations to and communicate with people in the audiences. Presentations should be prepared on the basis of their own researches and literature reviews. To train students to be familiar with the research methodology, data analysis, data interpretation, and development trend in the field of environmental health, occupational Medicine, and industrial hygiene. College of Public Health Downtown Campus – College of Public Health Tsun-Jen Cheng 15 Thursday ,6,7 OMIH8030 1 Half Graduate Institute of Occupational Mediene http://omih.ntu.edu.tw/?locale=en

This is an English course designed for docotor students of the Institue of Environmental Health and the Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene.Students are expected to be familiar with research methodology, data analysis, data interpretation, and the development trends in the field of environmental health, occupational mediicne, and industrial hygiene. Students are required to make presentations to and communicate with people in the audiences. Presentations should be prepared on the basis of their own researches and literature reviews. To train students to be familiar with the research methodology, data analysis, data interpretation, and development trend in the field of environmental health, occupational Medicine, and industrial hygiene. College of Public Health Downtown Campus – College of Public Health Chih-Chieh Chen 25 Thursday ,6,7 OMIH8031 1 Half Graduate Institute of Occupational Mediene http://omih.ntu.edu.tw/?locale=en

This course provides an introduction to health policies and management. The primary objective of the course is to provide students with the tools and historical context to critically assess a wide variety of policies—past, current, and future. This course is designed for students to understand health care system, health insurance, health policy making and health care organizations management in global view and focus on Taiwan for example. This course includes three parts: The first part is “principles of health policy and evaluation”, which gives an introduction of the concepts and principles of health policy and evaluation. The second part is “health care system and health insurance”, which introduces infrastructure of health care system and its operations. Health insurance and related topics will be covered here. The third part is “health care organization management”, which gives an introduction on management theories and issues in hospitals and long-term care facilities. The readings draw on public health and health services research, economics, medical sociology and public health law:

1. To understand the main components and issues in health care systems

2. To discuss the policy process for improving the health status of populations.

3. To understand principles of management, program planning, development, budgeting, and evaluation in organizational initiatives.

4. To understand the role that insurance plays in the health care delivery system

College of Public Health Downtown Campus – College of Public Health Kuo-Piao Chung 12 Wednesday 2,3,4 HPM8014 3 Half Institute of Health Policy and Management http://ntuhpm.ntu.edu.tw/?locale=en

Reading these news headlines flashing on the screen in a single day or two, you may wonder what is going on in the world now.

* Melania Trump, Donald Trump’s wife, in her Republican Convention speech plagiarized Michelle Obama’s convention speech in 2008. (July 20, 2016)

* HSBC foreign-exchange Executive arrested at JFK airport over £2.7billion exchange rate scam. (July 20, 2016)

* Russian track and field athletes will remain banned from the 2016 Rio Olympics following claims the country ran a state-sponsored doping program. (July 21, 2016)

* Malaysian PM under pressure over $1bn US fraud case of 1MDB. (July 21, 2016)

* Volkswagen accused of ‘destroying incriminating documents’ and ‘researching’ law before breaking it in emission testing scandal. (July 20, 2016)

* Fox News chairman Roger Ailes resigned amid sexual harassment allegations (July 21, 2016)

Plagiarism, currency trading scam, doping in sports, money fraud, emission testing scandal, or sexual harassment are all related with “ethics” and ethical violations.

Ethics is about what “principles” that you follow for your actions.

Ethics is about what “values” that lie at the core of your choice.

Ethics is about how you face “temptations” in your pursuit of success and purpose.

Ethics is about how you make a “right” decision and do the “right” thing.

Ethics is about how your “character” is cultivated to withstand the pressure when everybody else is doing it.

Ethics is about where to draw a “line” in the gray area of uncertainty.

Ethics is about how to “empower” yourself to make a difference in the world.

Ethics is what “sustains” you in good times and bad times.

Ethics keeps your name from appearing on the headlines like those above.

Ethics is the foundation of everything one can achieve and accomplish in life. Apart from it, success is on shaky ground. Hence the purpose for this course is “to inspire and to empower” students to make the right choice and to transform their life and career.

This course focuses on “Ten most important lessons in business ethics for your career,” with every lesson begins with a “guiding question” to be answered in the class and ends with a “practice question” to be discussed in groups for applying ethical lesson in practical issues.

Corporate visit will be arranged to familiarize students with business practices in real world.

This course is a journey and it is one journey you won’t regret!

Note: All students are welcome to this course. However, students with some working experiences are preferred as business cases will be discussed.

*For Students who are not in the Global MBA program but like to take this course, if you get rejected online in registration process, please come to the first class to get approval and authorization code from Dr. Hsieh or correspond with him by email (dr.edhsieh@gmail.com).

** There are still openings so far, make sure to come to the first class on Sep 22 to secure your registration for this course.

1. students will clearly learn the concept and methodology for ethical decision,through instruction, presentation and illustration of different business cases;

2. students will gain clear understanding to incorporate ethical practices in personal life and career, through individual study and corporate visit report;

3. students will learn to participate in group discussions and to make contributions in a team, through organized group case study and presentation;

4. students will learn first-hand the difficulty of tug-of-war of business decisions in the real world, benefiting from the speaker’s broad executive experience;

5. students will learn to define the very fine line in life and say “No” to temptations and that is more significant than just “A+” grade as an objective.

College of Management Main Campus *Restrict to 3rd-year and above.
*Restrict to students of College of Management. Kuan-Hsiung Hsieh 50 Thursday A,B,C GMBA7095 3 Half Global MBA, College of Management http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

“The paradox of teaching entrepreneurship is that such a formula necessarily cannot exist;because every innovation is new and unique, no authority can prescribe in concrete terms how to innovative. Indeed, the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas.” -By Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal

To create a new business, whether startup a new company or build it in an existed enterprise, is a dynamic progress with many uncertainties. It’s highly related to the entrepreneur for the chance to success. Even it’s hard to taught to teach entrepreneurship, this course will try to teach students attitude of being an entrepreneur through some concept, practices, as well as skills. Learning by doing will be the core spirit of the deliver method.

This course will try to show the key theories and methods, which is related to the progress of starting up a new business. Students need to develop a new business by practicing those concept taught in the class, step by step. This progress thorough whole class will bring students about the concept, attitude and skills of being a real entrepreneur.

The course consists of four parts:

1. Key theories for starting up a new business: business opportunity identification, product/service design, business model design.

2. Core competences for entrepreneur: teaming, fund raising, presentation skills, negotiation skills, and the mind-set to be a good entrepreneur.

3. Course delivery approach: For getting deeper understanding with those key theories, students need to go through four steps for each key theory: teach, exercise, review, and feedback.

4. Experience sharing: the experience in real world is crucial for an entrepreneur. This course will have two sessions, which will invite guest speakers to sharing their related experience or knowledge.

College of Management *Restrict to students of College of Management. Yen-Hau Chen 50 GMBA7106 2 Half Global MBA, College of Management http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

This last decade has seen many changes regarding how organizations  both profit and non-profit  are organized, as many so-called hybrid forms of business have emerged to blur this distinction. At the same time, recent economic developments all around the world are refueling the debate about the role and responsibility of business in global society. Genuine or authentic corporate social responsibility is, at its core, about the meaning and practice of constructive business  what such business might be, what (new) challenges are involved in the practice of social responsibility, and what (new) opportunities are offered in this domain.

The purpose of the course is to encourage a broader and deeper understanding of the meaning and practice of social responsibility in business and organizational contexts. As such it is a reflective course, with the instructor serving as a guide on a journey through various landscapes of practice involving complexities at both strategic and moral/ethical levels. The teaching format is highly interactive, and students are expected to actively participate in all elements of the course, including classroom discussions, case work and student-led seminars (see grading policy).

This course is taught in English.

This course follows the MBA format, hence the following classroom policy and etiquette apply:

1. Without special dispensation from the instructor, the use of any sort of personal computer during class is prohibited.

2. Meals and snacks are reserved for break time; please do not bring food to the classroom to consume during the session.

3. Latecomers are expected to enter the classroom discreetly taking care not to disturb the ongoing session.

4. Active participation in class discussion is required. Students are expected to arrive prepared, having read the session materials beforehand.

5. In the event a student is absent from a session, a make-up assignment shall be completed for that particular session. However, more than two absences will affect the gr On completion of the course the students will be:

1. familiar with the rhetoric surrounding CSR and its various meanings and implications

2. able to analyze and discuss challenges surrounding the implementation of CSR practices and how these can be addressed

3. able to develop CSR plans and value statements that reflect a wider view on business

College of Management Main Campus *Restrict to 3rd-year and above.
*Restrict to students of College of Management. Miriam Garvi 50 Tuesday 7,8,9 GMBA5016 3 Half Global MBA, College of Management http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

Due to human’s limited mental model, people tend to look at a problem from a local and partial perspective and enact solutions that create unintended consequences in the long run. As a result, today’s problem comes from yesterday’s solution. The harder we push, the harder the system pushes back. How to break out silo-thinking in organization? How to expand our mental models to “bring the system in the room”? Systems thinking is a critical leadership capability that enables one to look at a problem holistically, identify root causes and design high-leverage solutions. It is called by MIT Sloan School professor Peter Senge “the core discipline of a learning organization” in his seminal book: “The Fifth Discipline: the Art and Practice of the Learning Organization.”

In this intensive two-day course, we will learn the core concepts and tools of systems thinning and learning organization. We will learn a set of tools that let you (1) graphically depict your understanding of a particular social system’s behavior and its underlying structure, (2) communicate with others about your understandings explicitly, and (3) design high-leverage interventions to address root causes of a problem. These tools include causal loop diagrams, behavior over time graphs, stock and flow diagrams, and system archetypes—all of which let you depict your understanding of a system—to computer simulation models and “management flight simulators,” which help you to test the potential impact of your interventions.

In addition to systems thinking, we will learn four other core disciplines of a learning organization. They are:

1. Personal Mastery: this discipline of aspiration involves formulating a coherent picture of the results people most desire to gain as individuals (their personal vision), alongside a realistic assessment of the current state of their lives today (their current reality). Learning to cultivate the tension between vision and reality can expand people’s capacity to make better choices, and to achieve more of the results that they have chosen.

2. Mental Model: this discipline of reflection and inquiry skills is focused around developing awareness of the attitudes and perceptions that influence thought and interaction. By continually reflecting upon, talking about, and reconsidering these internal pictures of the world, people can gain more capability in governing their actions and decisions.

3. Shared Vision: this collective discipline establishes a focus on mutual purpose. People learn to nourish a sense of commitment in a group or organization by developing shared images of the future they seek to create, and the principles and guiding practices by which they hope to get there.

4. Team Learning: this is a discipline of group interaction. Through techniques like dialogue and skillful discussion, teams transform their collective thinking, learning to mobilize their energies and ability greater than the sum of individual members’ talents.

College of Management *Intensive two-day course on Oct. 28-29.

*Restrict to 3rd-year and above.
*Restrict to students of College of Management.
Joe Chiao-Jen Hsueh 50 GMBA7072 1 Half Global MBA, College of Management http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

Defined as a sector of subsectors encompassing industries that exploited creative talent through various types of intellectual property, the term Cultural & Creative Industries (CCIs) was coined in the 1990s, with a view to redefining the economic value of arts and culture. The concept of creative industries has grown and gained more importance in the fields of economics, politics and academia ever since.

In this course we are to approach CCIs from a variety of perspectives first by enabling students to contextualise the activities of creative industries within wider cultural and commercial frameworks, and then by exploring major issues addressed and strategies employed in the industries. There are three main units:

Unit 1: Culture policy and the development of the CCIs

This unit explores why the CCIs have grown by looking into shifts in modes of consumption, leisure and time use, together with the shift in developed economies away from industrial production to service industries.

Unit 2: Work and organisation in the CCIs

This unit looks at the characteristics and varieties of organisation and management of cultural production, as well as the nature of work within the CCIs. It examines the process of entrepreneurship, in which culture and the market meet, and who is involved and why it is important in the context of the CCIs.

Unit 3: Convergence, production and consumption

This unit examines changes in the organisation of cultural production, and further considers the relationship between technology and organisations. It then looks at the shifting interrelationships between the production and consumption in the digital era, and models of audience segmentation. The course is delivered through a combination of lectures and seminars. While in the former key issues, concepts and theories will be identified, in the latter students will discuss ideas and engage in debates arising from the lectures, the required readings and practical cases.

This course aimed to equip students with both theoretical and practical understandings of CCI and the development of a cultural economy to create their own creative initiatives in the future. College of Management Main Campus *Restrict to 3rd-year and above.
*Restrict to students of College of Management. Szu-Wei Chen 50 Wednesday 2,3,4 GMBA7088 3 Half Global MBA, College of Management http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

This course is the first course in quantitative business science for data analysts, detailing: (1) statistical programming, (2) stochastic simulation, (3) computationally intensive methods, (4) mixed and multilevel models, and (5) formal model comparison using information criteria. The practical goals of the course are to teach students how to specify, code, fit, and interpret model-based inference, and appreciate the powerful things ‘model thinking’ can do for analyzing dependent data when sampling is over time, space, or within clusters, which are common in digital operations (e.g., internet of things), platform business (e.g., Airbnb, Alibaba, Uber), and sharing economy (e.g., crowdfunding). The course is ‘heavy on code’ since having ‘computational thinking’ in the digital era entails a lot of scripting and programming. The objectives of this course are: (1) to familiarize the R language, (2) to perform statistical computing via computer programming, (3) to develop statistical models via R and the Stan package, and (4) to develop the skills in organizing an effective data-driven strategy in a real business world. College of Management Main Campus *Restrict to 3rd-year and above. Shu-Jung Yang 70 Friday 2,3,4 MBA5078 3 Half Department of Business Administration,
Graduate Institute of Business Administration http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/EiMBA