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제   목  Academic Excellence in the American Universities
            (Experience as a research professor in a U. S. University)

강   사  Dr. Francis T. S. Yu (Professor Emeritus)

소   속  Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

시   간   2007년 5월 15일 (화요일) 13:00 - 14:30

장   소  신공학관 301동 106호

Abstract

I shall start with the meaning or definition of academic excellence. After it was defined, we shall look into the variables that make the major American institutions the fineness. As general perception, success of American universities is primarily due to the abundant financial resources. Although monitory aspect may be one of the critical factors, but there are other important variables that make it happen. Two of the major variables that affect tremendously to the achievement for academic excellence must be the academic freedom and academic realism, for which I shall stress in this talk. Examples of evidence and the impediments to achieve that goal will be discussed. Since quality of education highly affected the academic excellence, I will mention some of those experiences that might improve the quality. Intense student competition in academic affairs on the other hand adversely affects their mentality and psychology; those factors ultimately influence the overall academic excellence of their universities, as I will explain.

강사이력

Francis T. S. Yu received his B.S.E.E. degree from Mapua Institute of Technology, Manila, Philippines, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
During the period from 1958 to 1965, he was a teaching fellow, an instructor, and a lecturer in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan, and a research associate with the Communication Sciences Laboratory at the same University. From 1966 to 1980 he was on the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Wayne State University. He was a Visiting Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Michigan from 1978-1979. In 1980 he became a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at The Pennsylvania State University. He has been a consultant to several industrial and government laboratories. He is an active researcher in the fields of optical signal processing, holography, optics and information theory, and optical computing. He has published over 300 refereed papers in these areas. He is a recipient of the 1983 Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Physical Sciences and Engineering, a recipient of the 1984 Outstanding Researcher in the College of Engineering, was named Evan Pugh Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1985 at Penn State, a recipient of the 1993 Premier Research Award from the Penn State Engineering Society, was named Honorary Professor in Nankai University in 1995, the co-recipient of the 1998 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award, named Honorary Professor in National Chiao Tung University Taiwan in 2004, and the recipient of the 2004 SPIE Dennis Gabor Award. Dr. Yu retired from Penn State University in 2004 and is a Professor Emeritus there now. He has been chairing the SPIE Conference Series on Photorefractive Fiber and Crystal Devices since 1995. He is the author and co-author of ten books entitled: (1) Introduction to Diffraction, Information Processing and Holography (translated in Russian), (2) Optics and Information Theory, (3) Optical Information Processing (translated in Chinese), (4) White-Light Optical Signal Processing, (5) Principles of Optical Engineering (with I. C. Khoo) (translated in Chinese), (6) Optical Signal Processing, Computing, and Neural Networks (with S. Jutamulia) (translated in Chinese and Japanese), (7) Introduction to Optical Engineering (with X. Yang) (being translated Korean), (8) Entropy and Information Optics (being translated in Chinese) (9) Introduction to Information Optics (with S. Jutamulia and S. Yin). And he also has contributed several invited chapters in various monographs and books. He has co-edited four books entitled: (1) Optical Storage and Retrieval (with S. Jutamulia), (2) Optical Pattern Recognition(with S. Jutamulia), (3) Photorefractive Optics (with S. Yin), and (4) Fiber Sensors (with S. Yin). Dr. Yu is a fellow of IEEE, Optical Society of America, SPIE (The International Society for Optical Engineering), and Physical Society of China.