As the world moves towards a new era of knowledge-based economy, the world’s major technologically advanced countries are committed to integrating scientific and technological resources, planning scientific and technological goals and strategies, in order to enhance the country’s overall competitiveness. The planning and use of scientific and technological talent resources are the focus of scientific and technological development. At present, when industrial scientific and technological research and development is moving towards innovation and foresight, the demand for cross-disciplinary and forward-looking R&D talents is even more urgent. There is still a considerable gap between the demand and supply of manpower in Taiwan’s high-tech industries, and there is a serious shortage of high-tech talents. Among all high-tech talents, the main shortage is in senior software, hardware and system integration design talents.

With the booming development of the wireless and mobile phone communications markets, the demand for technical personnel in related microcomputer systems, communication systems, radio frequency and microwave circuits is increasing. In the foreseeable future, the wireless communications industry will create a huge market for Taiwan. The Institute for Information Industry’s Market Intelligence Center predicts that Taiwan’s wireless communications industry output value will reach NT$1.4 trillion. In addition, according to the statistical report of MIC, 5G wireless communication technology will have development advantages in the future and has been gradually verified on communication platforms. It is estimated that it will be widely used in communication systems after 2023. Judging from the development trend of 5G technology, 39 operators and 19 countries around the world will introduce LTE in the future and start deployment in 2019-2020. The number of communication base stations used will increase day by day. Therefore, the demand for relevant communications talents will increase in the future.

Therefore, in order to meet the industry demand and future trends for the above-mentioned professional and technical talents, the teaching development of this department focuses on cultivating three types of related talents, namely microcomputer applications, communications, and electronic circuits, so that students can be competent for various related representative jobs and hope that students can meet the needs of the industry after graduation.

In the past, the technical and vocational education system has cultivated many basic technical talents, promoted the development of Taiwan’s related science and technology industries, and made great contributions to Taiwan’s economic and social development. However, facing the rapid expansion of opportunities for higher technical and vocational education, most students from senior vocational schools choose to continue their studies after graduation, which has caused a serious shortage of professional basic manpower in the science and technology industry. In addition, in recent years, due to the rapid increase in domestic colleges and universities, the number of college students has expanded rapidly, but due to the differences in the curriculum arrangements of various colleges and universities, the talents trained by colleges and universities do not meet the needs of the business community. Therefore, the unemployment situation among university graduates is becoming increasingly serious.

The Department of Computer and Communications at Shu-Te University has entered its 22nd year since its establishment in 2002. Its graduates have received high praise in the industry and it is one of the main places in southern Taiwan for cultivating professional computer application and communications talents. In order to cultivate basic professional talents suitable for the current microcomputer application and communication industry, the department has connected with enterprises to establish a close teaching and internship cooperation platform between the business community and the school. In promoting curriculum and teaching objectives, we integrate the curriculum features of higher vocational electronics, electrical engineering and information science, coordinate the certification system, strengthen the practical education feature of “learning by doing, learning by doing” in technical and vocational education, and uphold the “practice-oriented” teaching concept, so that students can combine the learned theories with practices and fully apply them to actual work. By experiencing professional life experience, they can acquire professional skills and develop excellent service attitudes, with the goal of cultivating excellent professional basic personnel and developing human resources. Therefore, our school intends to apply for the “International Learning-Industry Cooperation Class” for the Department of Computer and Communications in the 114th academic year.

The educational goal of our school is to “implement the school motto of academic, intellectual, happy and hope, and create a distinctive, international, high-quality and diversified learning environment. Cultivate outstanding students with both technical skills and moral integrity, and make them the preferred talents in the industry.” The School of Information Science and Technology is in line with the educational goals of the University and has set the educational goals of the School of Information Science and Technology as “to cultivate professional talents with the work skills and attitudes required by the information and communications industry; to establish cooperative relationships with the information and communications industry, expand the scope of the employment market, and create a stable education and living environment.”

Our school established the Institute of Computer and Communications in 1990, and divided and integrated it with the Department of Information Engineering and the Department of Information Management of our college, in order to cultivate professional talents related to electronics and communications, thereby enhancing the overall competitiveness of the industry. Since the establishment of one daytime class in 2001, the four-year technical college was expanded to two classes in 2005, and a nighttime continuing education class was added. In order to match the development goals of the department, the curriculum planning focuses on the cultivation and training of students’ professional knowledge, practical skills, creativity and teamwork, in order to establish the basic qualities and core abilities of the profession and meet the needs of professional characteristics, industry development and student characteristics. The teaching objectives and characteristics of this department are to impart theoretical knowledge through local curriculum planning and administrative examinations; to cultivate students’ creativity and teamwork attitude through project production, competition, patent writing and workplace internships, so that this department can become the cradle of professional and technical personnel training in “microcomputer applications”, “communications” and “electronic circuits” in Southern University of Science and Technology, and to cultivate students’ local abilities required for future employment in the workplace. The department passed the most recent science and technology university evaluation in the 108th academic year and obtained the department’s quality assurance accreditation, which is valid for 6 years.

In line with the industry demand and future trends for professional and technical personnel, the department focuses on developing three types of talents, namely microcomputer applications, communications, and electronic circuits, so that students can be competent for various representative jobs and hope that graduates can meet the needs of the industry. To achieve this goal, the department has hired full-time teachers with expertise that matches the educational goals, so that we can provide students with professional and in-depth courses. Most of the teachers also have practical experience in the industry and relevant professional certificates, providing students with integrated professional practical knowledge. At the same time, in order to achieve the goal of cultivating students with a practical focus in technical and vocational education, the department has currently invested considerable funds to train and encourage students to obtain relevant certificates in conjunction with the opening of existing programs. The department has set up testing sites for single-chip practical and professional certificates, testing sites for the Ministry of Labor’s Class B and C certificates for communications technicians, and testing sites for Class B network installation certificates. Students in this special class can be encouraged and guided to practice for relevant certificate exams in their spare time.