Scholarship

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University College of Photonics Graduate Student Scholarships and Grants Implementation Regulations

Revised and approved on February 1, 2021 by the 4th College of Photonics Teaching and Curriculum Committee Meeting of Academic Year 2020.

Approved on February 22, 2021 by the 4th College of Photonics College Affairs Meeting of Academic Year 2020.

I.            Purpose: The National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University College of Photonics (hereinafter referred to as the College) has formulated the Regulations in order to encourage students from the Institute of Photonics System, Institute of Lighting and Energy Photonics and the Institute of Imaging and Biomedical Photonics to actively engage in research, and cultivate talents in related high-tech fields so as to enhance competitiveness. The College provides scholarships and grants for newly admitted master's program students and existing master's program students, doctoral students and direct admissions doctoral students.

II.          Enrollment scholarship for new master's program students: All students who are officially admitted through the screening tests and entrance examinations of the College's three institutes in the current year shall receive a scholarship of NT$30,000 per student. The awards shall be disbursed in an amount of NT$15,000 in October during the first semester and in March during the second respectively (students must be enrolled full-time at the time of disbursement; those who are on leave of absence from school shall have the payment cancelled and no make up payment shall be issued). In September of each year, the College office shall actively select and recommend students based on the screening test and entrance examination results for review and approval by the Teaching and Curriculum Committee.

III.        Scholarship for master's program students: 10 scholarships shall be offered to the top ten students in the electro-optics, optical electronics and photonics laboratory courses. Each student shall receive a scholarship amount of NT$30,000. The awards shall be disbursed in an amount of NT$15,000 in October during the first semester and in March during the second respectively. (Students must be enrolled full-time at the time of disbursement; those who are on leave of absence from school shall have the payment cancelled and no make up payment shall be issued). In September of each year, the College office shall actively select and recommend students based on the grades of their courses for review and approval by the Teaching and Curriculum Committee. Calculation for the grades shall be the average of the percentile rankings in the abovementioned three courses. If the same course has been taken twice or more, the calculation shall be based on the average of all the percentile rankings in that course. For those who are exempted from the photonics course, the calculation of their grade shall be based on the average of their percentile rankings in the optical electronics and photonic experiment courses.

IV.       Scholarship for doctoral student: The scholarship shall be based on the applicants' (limited to full-time first to third year doctoral students) research paper points in the previous year. A total of three scholarships shall be offered to the top three students. The scholarship amount is NT$10,000 per month for 12 consecutive months (students must be enrolled full-time at the time of disbursement; those who are on leave of absence from school shall have the payment cancelled and no make up payment shall be issued), and shall be disbursed in the amount of NT$10,000 each month starting in February of the current year. Applications shall be submitted in January each year, and the evaluation shall be based on the number of research papers points of published papers from January 1 to December 31 of the previous year (the publication dates of the paper must be within the aforementioned period). The applications shall be reviewed and approved by the Teaching and Curriculum Committee. Details for the point calculation are as follows:

1.     In case of the same score in the point evaluation for the current year, applicants whose papers have the smallest sequence of authors shall be given priority.

2.     (1) Scoring method for SCI/SSCI journal articles:

IF≧10................................... 10 points

IF≧5 or P≦10%.................... 8 points

IF≧3 or P≦25%.................... 6 points

IF≧2 or P≦50%.................... 4 points

IF≧1 or P>50%...................... 2 points

                              i.   For the top ranking journal in the field category where there is less than 10 journals, the points calculation may be based on P≦10%.

                            ii.   The impact factor and field ranking of the journal shall be based on the latest version of the Journal Citation Report (JCR).

 (2) Author ranking weighting:

i.     Only advisors may be excluded from the number of authors. All other authors (including co-advisors) shall be included into the calculation.

ii.   Weighting is 1.0 when there is only one author.

iii. For papers with two authors, weighting for the first author is 0.7 and the second author is 0.3.

iv. For papers with three or more authors, weighting for the first author is 0.5, the second author is 0.3, and the third author is 0.2. The fourth and subsequent authors shall not be counted.

V.   Scholarship for direct admissions doctoral students: Two years (4 semesters) of tuition fee and credit fees shall be provided during the doctoral study period.

VI.   Stipends for course teaching assistants: The stipend for one course is NT$4,000 per month. The details are as follows:

1.   Four months of stipends are disbursed each semester. In other words, the stipend for each course is NT$ 16,000. (Semester 1: October to January; Semester 2: March to June).

2.   Teachers in the College may assign 1 teaching assistant to each course. Courses that are allocated twice the amount of stipends may be assigned a maximum of 2 teaching assistants.

3.   "Seminar" and "Independent Study" shall not be allocated teaching assistantship stipends.

4.   The abovementioned course teaching assistant stipends are based on 3-credit or 3-hour courses. Non 3-credit or 3-hour courses shall be calculated in proportion

5.   If the number of students in a course exceeds 50 students, an additional NT$400 of stipend shall be added for every 5 students.

6.   Course teaching assistant stipend for photonic experiment courses shall be twice that of teaching assistant stipend for general courses.

7.   Course teaching assistant stipend for required courses shall be twice that of teaching assistant stipend for general courses. However, teaching assistants for required courses shall provide 2 hours of tutoring each week, return homework assignments to students and explain the answers to the current assignment.

VII. Academic financial assistance: The College shall subsidize the credit fee for required courses in the College that have been taken three or more times.

Article VIII The Regulations are implemented upon approval by the Teaching and Curriculum Committee and the College Affairs Meeting of the College of Photonics; the same shall apply to amendments.

(The Implementations were drawn up in Chinese and translated into English. In the event of any discrepancy between the two versions, the original Chinese version shall prevail.)