Department of Chemistry, National Dong Hwa University

Department of Chemistry, National Dong Hwa University

------History------

Our department was established on 1996. It is located in left part of Science building as four stairs building.It is one of the renowned departments among the chemistry departments in all over the Taiwan. It has enriched with numerous numbers of well trained eminent faculties and with completely facilitated by all necessary instruments to become frontier in research and development. It keeps encouraging students to get educate

·Bachelor Program (BS) since 1998 ·Master Program (MS) since 1996 ·Doctoral Program since 2001.

In addition to this, as part of curriculum, it also encourages Post Doctoral Fellow(PDF) to do projects, which are very challenging in the cutting edge of the chemistry.

Currently, the department holds 22 staff members to contribute both in teaching and research including ten professors, six associate professors, one assistant professor, two training assistants and two administrative assistants. The department has totally of 304 students (based on 2010 fall semester) including 196 undergraduate students, 85 master students and 23 doctoral students.

------Facility------

Our department is one of the well-equipped departments in the nation. It housed the following instruments for doing advance level of research in chemistry. NMR spectrometers: 300 MHz Bruker NMR, 400 MHz Bruker NMR and 600 HR MHz NMR；Mass Spectrometers: Bruker MALDI MS, Perkin Elmer TGA/MS, Finnigan LC/MS, Fnnigan GC/MS, Agilent GC/MS；

GC & UV: GL Science GC and Hitachi UV/Vis Spectrometer；Fluorescence spectrometers: Aminco. Bowman series 2 FP (2) and Perkin Elmer LS55 FP；Polarimeter:Jasco P-1010 Polarimeter；Optical Spectrometer: Jasco-J-715 CD-ORD；XRDs: Bruker Apex II Single crystal XRD and D8 Advanced Bruker Powder XRD…etc.

The department gets projects and financial supports from both industrial and government agencies. Research programs with high co-relation to many fields are currently in progress at the department. Our department as well as individual professors provide stipend to each of their master and doctoral students.

------Program------

Degree / Minimum Credits / Required Course Credits / Additional Course Credits / Gen. Ed. Program Credits
Bachelor / 128 / 68 / 21 / 39
Master / 22 / 10 / 12 / 0
Ph. D / 22 / 16 / 6 / 0

Detailed information and requirements about our PhD graduate program ：

Ⅰ. Taking compulsory and seminar courses to fulfill the required credits

Ⅱ. Choosing of Research Advisor

III. Gaining six points of Cumulative Examinations

IV. Requirements beyond the Second Year
A. Oral Examination of a Research Proposal
B. As the key author of two SCI papers
C. Thesis defense

------Faculty------

Name / Position / Education Background / Research Interest
Wen-Shu Huang / Professor / Ph.D., Chemistry, Oregon State University, USA. / Organometallic Chemistry
Ivan J.B.Lin / Professor / Ph.D., Chemistry,Case Western Reserve University, USA. / Liquid Crystals； Organometallics ；Catalysis；Nanometerials
Hai-Chou Chang / Professor / Ph. D., Chemistry, Iowa State University, USA. / Spectroscopy
Yen-Peng Ho / Professor / Ph. D., Physical Chemistry, Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, OH, USA. / Mass spectrometry
Bioanalytical Chemistry
Dar-Fu Tai / Professor / Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Pittsburg, USA. / Bioorganic Chemistry；Peptide Chemistry；Protein Detection by Molecular imprinting
Chen-Wei Liu / Professor / Ph. D., Chemistry, Texas A&M University, USA / Inorganic Chemistry
Hsiu-Hua Chang / Professor / Ph. D., Chemistry, Ohio State University, USA / Theoretical Study
Dynamic Chemistry
Kong-Hwa Chiu / Professor / Ph.D., Analytical Chemistry, University of Idaho, USA / Environmental Analysis；Supercritical fluid ； Radiation Chemistry
Chin-Hsing Tsang / Professor / Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University / Electrochemistry
Analytical Chemistry
Chin-Piao Chen / Professor / Ph. D. University of Pittsburgh,USA / Asymmetric Reaction；Drug Design and Synthesis；New Reactions Investigation
Hun-Chi Shu / Associate Professor / Ph.D.,Lund University, Sweden / Biosensor; Analytical electrochemistry
Chia-Lin Chyan / Associate Professor / Ph.D., Chemistry, Rutgers University, USA / Biochemistry; Nuclear magnetic resonance in structural biology
Jia-Liang Zhu / Associate Professor / Ph. D., Chemistry, University of Alberta, Canada / Organic synthesis
Fu-Chen Liu / Associate Professor / Ph. D, Chemistry, Ohio StateUniversity, USA. / Inorganic Chemistry
Boron Chemistry
Max K. Leong / Associate Professor / Ph. D., Chemical Physics, University of Texas, USA. / Bio–, Chemo–, Pharmaco– & Toxicoinformatics
Yueh-Huey Chen / Associate Professor / Ph.D., Chemistry, State University of New Jersey, USA / Organic Chemistry
Chemistry Education
Shu-Chuan Huang / Assistant Professor / Ph. D.,Chemistry, U. C. L. A, USA. / Nanomaterials：Conducting polymers; Thermoelectric; DNA/gold composites