During collaboration between our university and local technology companies in Taiwan, it was discovered that in current companies dealing with large communication components or devices, the design of mechanical and circuit components is often handled by different departments. The mechanical department is responsible for increasing the number of channels in limited space; the RF circuit design department focuses on increasing channel bandwidth within limited materials; and the electronic circuit department ensures that active components have the strongest signal transmission and reception capabilities. After each department optimizes its part, they often face issues such as increased channel numbers leading to reduced spacing, resulting in capacitive coupling that decreases bandwidth, or overly strong emission power of active components causing crosstalk interference and heat accumulation, which increases channel noise and degrades data transmission rates compared to expectations. Given the integration problems and challenges encountered by Taiwanese manufacturers during product development.

The development direction of this industrial doctoral program will build on existing courses and facilities in “High-Speed Transmission Design Practice” and “Electronic Packaging Design Practice,” while incorporating new curriculum content and related technologies in line with development trends, to provide the industry with high-level talent. Additionally, the program will utilize the university’s integrated research and development verification environment.

The course content planning focuses on practicality, emphasizing the adjustment and measurement of design simulation parameters, to strengthen doctoral students’ ability to analyze product issues from a systemic perspective, thereby significantly shortening the research and development timeline during product design work. High-speed transmission issues will be elevated from a single engineer’s perspective to a system analysis perspective. Another focus is on Signal Integrity (SI) measurement to support talent cultivation in research and development which is industry needed, consequently assisting in industrial upgrading.