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The department of Computer Science was established in 1981 under the Business College, and enrolled in a single class.
After subordinate to Science College in 1982, the department was changed to be subordinate in Technology College in 2007.
In 1986, the recruit of students was changed to two classes, there were total of 120 students recruited every year.
In 1998, students enrolled in master class, and every academic year 25 students are recruited.
In 2000, the department started recruiting the Professional Master\'s class, and recruited about 30 students every academic year.
In 2002, the department started recruiting Extension School students of bachelor\'s class, and expected to recruit 60 students every academic year.
The department totally recruits 180 new students every year.
Belonging to one of the focal departments of TungHai University, the department has total 920 students, and there are about 4,100 graduate students in 35 academic years.
IT graduate talents trained by the department are widely and highly appreciated at home and abroad by academia and industrial circles, and the graduates will emerge in the job market and play an important role.
Currently, the department is actively preparing for the doctoral program and applying for passing the certification of engineering education.
Regarding to teaching faculty, teachers\' structure is intact at present in the department, and there are 19 full-time teachers now, including 9 professors, 7 associate professors, and 3 assistant professors.
The full-time teachers of the department have a wealth of professional and practical experience so that they can play a teacher\'s teaching, research and counseling role.
Teachers’ expertise to the department can cover the field of development, such as software engineering, information security, network and multimedia, embedded systems, and in accordance with the development of the field forming research group.
Three undergraduate programs, i.e. Software Engineering, Information & Electrical Engineering and Digital Innovation, are designed for students whose major interest is in computer science.
The department also encourages students to pursue further studies abroad, and to provide outlets for applications and assistance, and in addition to increasing student learning experiences, students can also develop an international perspective.
With our programs for the Master Degree, we aim at training a group of professional computer engineers to teach or conduct research in the future.
   
At present time when domestic efforts promote upgrading industrial information, whether in academia or industry are required of high-quality information on R & D talent.
The department is committed to developing research of higher academy and new science and technology, and trains advanced expertise with the exchange and cooperation of the industry circle, domestic and international academia to assist the domestic industry to upgrade technology.
With the new generation of software engineering technology, Internet applications and the rapid development of biological information, and measuring the future development of information technology and the co-ordination of existing resources, the department formulates the following areas as a priority direction of development:

- Information and Electrical Engineering Field.
The department in cooperation with the department of Electrical Engineering actively cultivates “Information Engineering” and “Electrical Engineering” cross-field professionals to provide solid system software, computer structure, electronics, embedded system, SOC chip and so on.
The students trained out possess design capability to integrate the software and hardware, and will become future designers of next hot generation of SOC chip and the embedded system.

- Digital Innovative Applications Field
Hopefully uniting the advantage of the hardware industries of Taiwan with development capacity of many kinds of technology, and through integrating cross-field technologies and developing digital innovative application, the department will play an important role of ‘Define Future’.
The digital innovative application needs to integrate technologies such as the multimedia, wireless network, sensor and remote control rod, intelligent hand-held device, embedded system, hardware design, software application and development, and digital content innovation, etc..
Such innovation applications not only take place in the world of the toy but also begin to ferment in every field from recreation, medical treatment, sport, building, military to multimedia, which can see several possible digital innovative applications.

- Software Engineering Field
Among 14 directors of Taiwan Software Engineer Institute, the teachers of the department occupy 3 members.
At the same time, one of teachers is in charge of planning the National Science Council-led software engineering field, and one is with CMMI auditor, part-time director of software quality association, and another teacher has a more than five related patents.

- Information Security Field
A number of teachers have a pretty good research results in the information security and the area of digital content protection in the department.
In recent years, the department organized several field of information security-related workshop, teachers advise their students to take part in information security competitions and also a good performance.
In the intercollegiate contest of “Golden Shield Award” for information security, the students have three consecutive entries, and stand out Championship twice, and the first runner-up once from the 50 elite group of schools (including National Taiwan University, National Tsing Hua University, National Chiao Tung University, National Cheng Kung University and other schools).