:::Academics

::: Home Academics

GUIDELINES FOR THE M.S. PROGRAM

Department of Optics and Photonics National Central University

 

Article 1: Curriculum

1.   Students must take courses under the advisor’s supervision. For those who have not found their advisors shall take courses with the assistance from their mentors.

 

2.​

(a)  Courses used toward the M.S. degree must have grades of 70 or above.

(b)  Required courses for DOP’s M.S. students* are

  •                             Optical Waves in Crystals,
  •                            Fourier Optics,
  •                            Geometrical Optics, and
  •                           Optics Laboratory.

Those who have taken these four courses offered by the Department and scored 71 or above are eligible to file a course waiver request form to the Department within one week after the first semester of every academic year begins. The approval of course waiver is subject to the decision by the Curriculum Committee of the Department.

(c)   M.S. students must take undergraduate Optics, Electromagnetism, and Microelectronics before enrolling in DOP’s M.S. program*. For those who scored 70 or above at junior college, or 61 or above at university are eligible to file a course waiver request form to the Department within one week before the first semester of every academic year begins. When filing the request form, students shall provide the syllabus (syllabi) as a supporting document. An oral examination may be required, if necessary.

(d)  Students must pass DOP Seminar for four semesters before graduation. Students who failed in this course may take the Seminar course offered by other departments after the approval of the Department. Those who report early graduation must pass this course in each semester during their study in the M.S. program.

 

3.   A minimum of 24 credits must be taken in the M.S. program; among which 18 credits must be earned from DOP’s courses, while the other 6 credits can be taken, with advisor’s consent, in other graduate institutes at National Central University. Any course to be taken at a graduate institute at other universities must be approved by the Department.

 

4.​      

(a)   Students who did not take undergraduate Optics, Electromagnetism, and/or Microelectronics before enrolling in DOP’s M.S. program must take undergraduate Optics I or Optics II, Microelectronics I or Microelectronics II, and/or Electromagnetism I or Electromagnetism II.

(b) Students who took undergraduate Optics I or Optics II (Electromagnetism I or Electromagnetism II, and/or Microelectronics I or Microelectronics II) offered by the Department and scored 70 or above are eligible to file Basic Optics (Electromagnetism, and/or Microelectronics) course waiver.

 

Article 2 M.S. Thesis

1.   Students must select an advisor from the full-time DOP faculty and are allowed to take Special Topic Research courses after their advisor selection.

2.   Students must select an advisor at least six months prior to their graduation.

 

Article 3 Graduation

1.   After completing all coursework and the M.S. thesis, students are allowed to have the M.S. thesis defense be held with the advisor’s consent. The advisor has to sign the “Recommendation for Thesis Defense Form” as part of the student’s request for M.S. thesis defense. The M.S. degree will be issued after the completion of thesis defense and other graduation procedures.

2.   Other matters regarding the thesis defense and graduation are subject to related regulations set by the Ministry of Education and National Central University.

 

Article 4

Matters not covered by the guidelines will be processed according to related regulations announced by the Ministry of Education and National Central University

 

Article 5

The Guidelines are to be implemented after the approval of the Department Affairs Meeting and the Academic Affairs Meeting at the university level. Any amendments shall follow the same procedure.

 

*The seminar is the only required course reported to the Office of Academic Affairs by the Department of Optics and Photonics; however, the required courses in the M.S. program set by the Department include: Fourier Optics, Geometrical Optics, Optical Waves in Crystals, Optics Laboratory, and the following three undergraduate courses: Optics, Electromagnetism, and Microelectronics.