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Professor Hung-chun Chang finished his two terms in May 2007 of serving as the
Representative of IEICE Taipei Section (earlier under the name of IEICE Overseas
Area Representative in Taipei). Professor Tzong-Lin Wu succeeded as the new Representative.
According to IEICE statistics, Taiwan has been an important
IEICE overseas area in terms of the number of members as well as the number of
articles published in the Institute's English Transactions. Having more lecture
meetings or workshops would help publicize these facts and let the general attendants
get familiar with the IEICE activities. In fact, electronics, computers, and telecommunications
industries are key industries in Taiwan and therefore they are always in need
of engineers in these areas. All major universities now have established College
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with a good population of graduate
students. There is thus good opportunity in recruiting more new members. We are
very pleased to know that the number of IEICE overseas members in Taiwan had increased
from 315 in May 2005 to 462 in March 2006, and to 574 in March 2007.
During 2006, we had organized two IEICE Distinguished Lecture
events at National Taiwan University. The first event was held on March 29, 2005
and the invited speaker was Prof. Hisamatsu Nakano from Hosei University, Tokyo,
Japan. There were more than 80 attendants including several faculty members. His
talk was entitled "Recent Progress in Antennas." He presented five topics:
(1) realization of a low-profile antenna using an EBG material, (2) beam direction
control for a low-profile antenna using an EBG material, (3) investigation of
the absorption characteristics of an EBG material, (4) dual-frequency operation
of an inverted LFL antenna (InvLFL) at 2.45 GHz and 5.2 GHz, and (5) a PSP antenna
for communications between land base stations and automobiles. His excellent presentation
was followed by exciting discussions.
The second event was held during on May 12, 2006 as the opening
lecture at the two-day "Workshop on Nitride Compounds and Their Applications"
which was announced as co-sponsored by the IEICE Taipei Section. The one-hour
invited lecture was announced as "IEICE Distinguished Lecture." The
workshop has been very successful and was attended by more than 200 scholars and
graduate students from different institutes in Taiwan. The workshop theme was
related to important new technical areas of solid state lighting. Prof. Yasuhiko
Arakawa from Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University
of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro, Komaba, 153-8505 Japan, was the distinguished
invited speaker. Prof. Lung-Han Peng of National Taiwan University presided the
lecture. The title of the lecture was "Growth and optical properties of GaN
quantum dos for advanced lasers and single photon sources." He presented
the history, development, and the exciting recent results of the GaN quantum dots
devices. His excellent presentation was followed by a few minutes of questions
and discussions. In addition to the Distinguished Lecture, there were 13 invited
papers presented by scholars from different universities and institutes in Taiwan,
as listed in the attached Agenda.
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In addition to the two Distinguished Lecture events, there was
an important IEICE event held during March 7-8, 2007 in Taiwan. That was the Taiwan-Japan
Joint Meeting on Antennas and Propagation, sponsored by the IEICE Technical Committee
on Antennas and Propagation (AP), and the venue was at Yuan Ze University, Chung-Li,
Taiwan. The Joint Meeting was co-located with the URSI/SRS Radio Science Conference
and was organized by Prof. Dau-Chyrh Chang of Oriental Institute of Technology,
Taiwan and Prof. Koichi Ito of Chiba University, Japan. Thirty papers were presented
and discussed in the two-day meeting and about thirty Japanese delegates, including
professors and students from different institutes in Japan, attended the meeting.
The AP Technical Committee Chair, Prof. Makoto Ando of Tokyo Institute of Technology,
was also in the meeting. It was a very successful meeting and provided very good
forum for the academic interactions between Japanese and Taiwanese AP scholars.
| Future activities to be organized by the Taipei
Section are listed below: |
| 1. |
EICE Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP): Two distinguished
lecturers in telecommunication or photonic research area will be invited to Taipei
Section and have a one-day workshop. The candidate of the speakers will be the
IEICE or IEEE fellow and play a leading role in the corresponding research area. |
| 2. |
IEICE technically sponsored conference/workshop: Two
international workshops will be held in Taipei and technically sponsored by IEICE
Taipei Section. |
| 3. |
Member meeting in IEICE Taipei Section: Trying to hold
a lunch meeting for the members of IEICE Taipei Section. The issues for the IEICE
society development, such as the publication, education, or communication, could
be discussed. This meeting could be combined with DLP. |
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