National Taiwan University

This course aims to teach common microorganisms in various foods; their taxonomic status and physiological characteristics; distribution and sources, safety and pathogenicity, and management regulations in various countries around the world. 

The course covers:  

1) Physiology and sources of common microorganisms in food; 

2) Factors that affect the growth of microorganisms in food and the ways in which they degrade food; 

3) How to control the growth of microorganisms in food; 

4) The role of microorganisms in different types of food; 

5) Edible microorganisms; 

6) Formulation of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP);

7) Enzymes in food processing and microbial production; 

8) Foodborne pathogens, and 

9) Indicator microorganisms and microbial standards.

This course weaves together social themes and historical processes for introductory acquaintance with the people of South Asia through the lens of musical performance and its allied arts. While the focus is on the Indian Subcontinent, which largely falls into the nation-state of India, the course also thematically explores case studies from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. This course does not aim for coverage of all regions in South Asia, but rather introduces key concepts that can be applied to open up a window to understanding contemporary South Asian society and its diaspora.

Over the twentieth century, the most famous exports of South Asian music for global audiences have been the “classical” music and dance traditions of north and south India, Bollywood movie soundtracks, and ecstatic devotional singing such as qawwali and kirtan. This course engages students in appreciating these performances as sophisticated art forms; familiarizing them with a diverse range of folk and popular genres, but also delving into the historical and social processes that shape them into the way their exponents and audiences understand them today. 

The course examines how contemporary performers reenact theorization from ancient treatises; how colonialism, nationalism, and migration reconfigured people’s engagements with musical performing arts, and how social groupings such as caste, class, religion, gender, and sexuality shape the way people make and listen to music across different localities in South Asia.

 

This is research project conducted with the E3 Research Group. This project analyzes the cost and emissions benefits of using Gogoro scooter banks as vehicle-to-building resources.  The group will be formulating a linear program model and will be implementing it using Python. 
 

This course aims to equip students with the necessary knowledge and skills to navigate the digital landscape of business resilience. The course features case studies and collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Taiwan to provide students with a realistic overview.

The course begins by examining the primary drivers of digital innovation and discussing the key concepts and frameworks. The course features AWS, the leading provider of cloud solutions, to demonstrate how their cloud-based solutions are utilized by companies to meet strategic digital innovation objectives. In module two, the course explores the impact of digital innovation on organizational and strategic management landscapes, focusing on current digital trends. For the final module, the course will shift focus to the broader marketplace, and will discuss the core legal and ethical trends affecting the global marketplace. 

With the advancement in Integrated Circuit (IC) fabrication and integration technologies, design-for-test and system-level testing have become indispensable. This course discusses concepts and technologies in VLSI testing. It starts with fault modeling, fault simulation, and test pattern generation. Then, the course introduces design-for-test, built-in-self-test, and memory testing. Finally, the course will address challenges and solutions to system-level tests. 

This is a non-synchronous online course taught in English. This course aims to inspire students’ interests in numerical computation regarding epidemiology and biostatistic, cultivating students’ critical thinking and logic in programming. The course expects to facilitate students’ research in biostatistics, epidemiology, or related quantitative fields and build students’ further understanding of quantitative epidemiology and biostatistics.

In most biostatistics courses, instructors usually introduce theoretical models and then analyze data with statistical software such as SAS and R. However, there is a black box between these two parts. To link statistical theory to software output, this course introduces the numerical computation process involved in statistical models. The course instructs on matrix operations, numerical analyses, Monte Carlo simulations, etc. The course also teaches how to construct a log-likelihood function according to a statistical distribution; obtain maximum likelihood estimates from a logistic regression and a Poisson regression; find exact confidence intervals, and design Monte Carlo simulations for a given research topic, etc.

Prerequisite: At least one course in biostatistics (or statistics) or epidemiology. 

 

The purpose of this course is to teach relevant domain knowledge of the acquisition of firms for pursuing synergistic or undervalued targets worldwide. Before or after mergers and acquisitions (M&A), asset restructuring can be a must to achieve strategic renewal and organizational reinvention for legitimacy and profitability. This course observes how acquisitions and restructuring have played out in the global business field and in Taiwan. 

This is an inter-disciplinary course that lays its groundwork on entry-level courses in management, finance, and organization. Thus, basic knowledge in these subjects (or equivalent), though not regarded as pre-requisites, contribute to effective learning.

Mobile and pervasive intelligence enables diverse smart applications in our daily life. It provides new insights into unstructured and uncertain information from a variety of sensors, data sources, user devices, and mobile platforms. The lecture covers theoretical fundamentals in sensing, communications, computing, and autonomy techniques; how to apply them in practical systems, and design principles in mobile and pervasive applications. The content includes the following topics:

A: Sensation and perception of mobile platforms
Section 1-Sensing: Wireless, visual, acoustic, and privacy-preserving sensing techniques
Section 2-Communications: Advanced communication and networking technologies to connect hardware and software components in one or more pervasive systems.
 

B: Intelligence creation
Section 3-Computing: Context-aware computing, serverless computing, and distributed intelligence
Section 4-Autonomy: Autonomous coordination and collaboration techniques between mobile platforms (e.g., drones or robots)
 

C: Hands-on tutorials 

This course covers the most common but important local diseases, such as allergic diseases, viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, lung cancer, oral cancer, and COVID-19. It discusses pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management, as well as the development of biomedical technology for the prevention and treatment of these diseases in Taiwan.  The course provides an opportunity to listen to guest speaker(s) about updated biomedical technology development in Taiwan and participate in a tour learning about the organization and functions of the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH).  

This course is primarily for horticulture students and students from relevant fields. It studies fundamental principles of plant propagation, including the biological basis of propagation, seed propagation, vegetative propagation, and tissue culture propagation.  The course also provides an introduction to techniques and selected case studies. Lab section is required; the lab work is designed to reinforce the lecture material by providing an opportunity to observe horticultural applications and their parts firsthand as well as to do experiments.