This course focuses on establishing epidemiologic concept and the ability of research design, and performing data analyses for observational studies. This course includes three parts: The first part is study design, which gives an introduction of causal inference and the principle of study design. The second part is analytical method, which gives an introduction on data analyses and the applications of statistical method. The third part is critical appraisal, which establishes students ability in reviewing specified literatures. The content of this course mainly follows the book Rothman KJ. Epidemiology: An Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press (2002) with the addition of chapters from other reference books. The examples from Taiwan unique research topics are given and illustrated in the course. For the latter part of this course, students will receive three papers for critical review and then present the results.

For lab data analysis, some example datasets will be distributed to students. Each week, students perform statistical analyses using these datasets and then send TA homework a week later. TA will demonstrate the SAS code and provide the answers for specific topics.

Students may use SAS, Stata, SPSS, and R programs for preparation the homework and lab data analyses.
This course establishes the following competencies via (1) the introduction of epidemiologic concept and research design using Taiwan unique research topics, (2) practice of data analysis, and (3) training on critical review:

1. Correctly use the principle of causal inference on literature reading and doing doctoral research.

2. Understand how random variation and bias affect research findings.

3. Understand the principle of cohort study and case-control study.

4. Learn Taiwan unique research topics.

5. Use statistical program to analyze example data set for observational studies.

College of Public Health Downtown Campus – College of Public Health Lin Hsien-Ho 20 Wednesday 6,7,8 EPM8002 3 Half Graduate Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine http://epm.ntu.edu.tw/?locale=en

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/

(1) Antenna Arrays

(2) Reflector Antennas

(3) Equivalent Theory and Aperture Antennas

(4) Antenna Synthesis problems.

(5) Smart Antennas

(6) Frequency Independent Antennas

The object of this course is to introduce the graduate students (or senior undergraduate students) more advantced subjects in the antenna related areas. It is particularly useful for the students to pursue the advanced studies and researches in the antenna area. Not only the basic theory will be introduced, the practical applications will also summarized. This students should have basic background in electromagnetics and antenna concepts. After taking this course, in conjunction with the basic antenna course, the students should have the sufficient background to explore the potentials of antenna technologies in the practical applications. College of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Main Campus Hsi-Tseng Chou 60 Monday 2,3,4 EE5094 3 Half Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering, Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering 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/

1. Fundamentals to robotics
2. Sensor technologies
Classification of sensors:
— Active sensor: an active sensor has a physical input, an electrical
Output, and an electrical excitation input (I. E., three energy ports) examples: electromechanical element, photoelectric element, piezoelectric element and thermoelectric element
— Passive sensor: a passive, or self-generating, sensor is one which has an input and output (i.e., two energy ports)
examples: capacitate element, inductive element and potentiometer element.
Sensor characterization:
— Detection means of sensors: biological, chemical, electric, magnetic, or electromagnetic wave, heat, temperature etc.
Conversion phenomena of sensors:

Thermoelectric, photoelectric, photomagnetic, magnetoelectric

Elastomagnetic, thermoelastic, elastoelectric
Thermomagnetic ,thermo-optic, photoelastic, etc
Technological aspect of sensors:
Ambient conditions allowed, full-scale output, hysteresis, linearity, measured range, offset, operating life, overload
characteristics, repeatability, resolution, selectivity, sensitivity, speed of response, stability, others
Fundamental circuit of sensors:
3. Robot sensors
– Force and tactile sensors: sensor type, tactile information processing, integration challenges
– Inertial sensors, GPS, and odometry
– Sonar sensors: sonar principles, waveforms, time of flight ranging,sonar rings

– Range sensors: range sensing basics, registration, navigation
– 3-D vision and recognition: visual slam (simultaneous localization and

Mapping). Recognition
4. Multisensor data fusion and integration:

– multisensor fusion methods, multisensor fusion and integration architectures,

Various multisensor fusion and integration applications
5. Robot control:
– principles of robot control, category of robot control, joint space versus task
Space control, the basic components of visual servo control, image based visual servo control, position based visual servo control and target tracking servo control
6. Practical examples of robot sensing and control through photos and video demonstrations.
College of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Main Campus Ren C. Luo 20 Thursday A,B,C EE5135 3 Half Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering http://www.ee.ntu.edu.tw/en/

Part I: Sequence Homology
Introduction to basic algorithmic strategies
Pairwise sequence alignment
Multiple sequence alignment
Chaining algorithms for genomic sequence analysis
Suboptimal alignment
Comparative genomics
Compressed / constrained sequence comparison
Hidden Markov models (the Viterbi algorithm et al.)
Part II: Sequence Composition
Sequence assembly
Maximum-sum and maximum-density segments
SNP and haplotype data analysis
Approximate gapped palindrome
Genome annotation
Other advanced topics
College of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Main Campus *Restrict to 3rd-year and above. Kun-Mao Chao 50 Tuesday 2,3,4 CSIE5028 3 Half Graduate Institute of Computer Science & Information Engineering,

Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinfornatics
http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en

The new discipline of cheminformatics covers the application of computer-

assisted methods to chemical problems such as information storage and

retrieval, the prediction of physical, chemical or biological properties of

compounds, spectra simulation, structure elucidation, reaction modeling,

synthesis planning and drug design. This class provides an introduction to the

representation of molecular structures and reactions, data types and

databases/data sources, search methods, methods for data analysis as well as

such applications as structure elucidation, reaction simulation, synthesis

planning and drug design.

* Basic chemistry for cheminformatics, representation of the chemical

structure, chemical nomenclature, elements, and formulas of compounds to

chemical structure fingerprints

* Chemical data, from 2D to 3D structure, structure comparison

* Chemical reactions,

* Calculation of physical chemical properties of compounds,

* Calculation of structure descriptors

* Methods for data analysis, and applications in computer-aided drug design,

spectra analysis, molecular modeling, simulation

College of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Main Campus Tseng Y. Jane 50 Wednesday 6,7,8 CSIE5730 3 Half Graduate Institute of Computer Science & Information Engineering,
Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinfornatics,
Energy Technology Program
http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en

This course provides a general introduction about Human Resource Management (HRM). It breaks into four main fields: (1) Recruitment (Talent selection), (2) Learning and Development (Talent incubation), (3) Performance management and compensation& benefit (Talent Motivation), (4) Human resource reservation (Talent Retention). Instructional methods will include lectures, case study, group discussion and inviting experience guest speaker to share their perspectives on the specific related topics. This course highly target at achieving below objectives:

1. Let our students establish the clear understanding about HRM

2. To provoke student’s interest about HRM

3. Bring cases scenario to simulate how HRM works in the real business world in the interactive learning environment

College of Management Main Campus *Restrict to 3rd-year and above.
*Restrict to students of College of Management. Litsung Chen 50 Tuesday 2,3,4 GMBA5020 3 Half Global MBA, College of Management http://www.management.ntu.edu.tw/en/GMBA

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

Population health and health care system of a nation are increasingly affected by the processes of globalization. This introductory course is aimed to provide an overview of the emerging field of global health. Thru lectures and discussion sessions we will introduce the principles and goals of global health, measurement tools for global health research, and the contemporary development of global health. Invited speakers will address global health theories and practices on a range of topics, such as health care delivery systems, control of communicable and non-communicable diseases, occupational health, environmental health, and the rising influences of global trade policies on health and health inequalities. This course is designed for undergraduate students majoring in global health and students in other departments who may or may not have previous exposure to public health sciences. Each session runs for 3 hours, starting with a one-hour lecture and followed by small-group discussions led by TA, and ending with a final plenary discussion involving the instructor and the whole class. Students will obtain knowledge on public health sciences with a global perspective. College of Public Health Downtown Campus – College of Public Health Shu-Sen Chang 60 Monday 6,7,8 PH3040 3 Half Department of Public Health http://dph.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 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