1. The subjects covered in the PhD Qualification Exam include:

Principles of Nuclear Engineering (核工原理)、Nuclear Radiation Measurement (輻射度量)、Engineering Thermodynamics (工程熱力學)、Heat Transfer (熱流學)、Fluid Mechanics (流體力學)、Principles of Microsystem Engineering (奈微米系統工程原理)、Advanced Nanotechnology (奈米科技進階)、Computational Materials Science (計算材料科學)、Physical Metallurgy (物理冶金)、Thermodynamics of Materials (材料熱力學)、Introduction to Solid State Physics (固態物理導論)、Physical Chemistry (物理化學)、Principles of Electrochemistry (電化學原理)、Modern Physics (近代物理)、Quantum Mechanics (量子力學)、Plasma Engineering (電漿工程)、Electromagnetics (電磁學)、Semiconductor Devices Physics (半導體元件物理)、Electric Circuits (電路學)、Electronic Devices (電子元件)、Electronic Systems (電子系統)

2. All students are required to take 2 subjects listed above as their exam subjects and register the Qualification Exam by handing in the exam application form. Once completing the registration, students cannot cancel the exam. Students absent from the exam will get a score of 0.

3. The minimum requirement of score for each subject in the Qualification Exam is 70 out of 100. If students have any doubt about their scores, they can apply for score review within one week after the exam results are announced. Once the department receives the application, the answer sheets of the applicant will be reviewed by examiners. After receiving the review results, the department announces the result of review to the applicant.

4. Students who plan to attend the Qualification Exam must enroll themselves in the semester.

Students cannot attend the Qualification Exam during suspended semester of school.

5. Students can apply for exempting from the Qualification Exam by taking specific courses (see Rule 8). The procedure is as follows:

(1) Apply for the exemption before the deadline of the course add-and-drop period of the semester. Register maximum two specific courses to be taken in the semester for the exemption.

(2) Once registered, students cannot request to change the courses.

(3) A registered course passes the exemption application if the score is equal to or higher than A−.

6. The specific courses, taken within the past 5 years (exceptional allowed under special circumstances) before entering the Ph.D. program, with a minimum score A− can be applied for the exemption. But the application must be done at the same moment for the credit transferring application.

Late application is not accepted.

7. Students can register for Qualification Exam, at most two times, after entering to the Ph.D. program. There is no number limit for the registration of exemption application. Students have to totally pass two subjects (the exam subjects plus the courses of exemption) within 2 years after the enrollment of the program (not including suspended year). Students who failed to achieve this requirement are dropped out.

8. The correspondence between the exam subjects and the specific courses to exempt the exam is given in Table 1. Both the course title and the course ID must be strictly respected in an exemption application.

9. The rules come in force after approved in Departmental Affairs Meeting, likewise for revision of the rules.