Prof. Yi-Wen Liu obtained a B.S. in E.E. from NTU in 1996, and a Ph.D. in E.E. from Stanford University in 2006. He conducted research in human hearing as a postdoc at Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska for 4 years before joining NTHU in 2010. At NTHU, Prof. Liu held several administration positions, such as Division Head at the Center for Teaching and Learning Development (2016), Director at the Office of Global Affairs (2019-2022), and he currently serves as the Chair of Interdisciplinary Program of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs. Yi-Wen's personal hobbies include bird watching, playing the piano, and running.

In this talk, I will share my experience in offering EMI courses in the Department of Electrical Engineering at NTHU over the past 10+ years. I am mainly responsible for "Digital Signal Processing" and the class size has been over 100 students every year. Students get 3 credits for the course, but in recent years I decided to meet 4 hours every week so that we have adequate time for in-class discussion. In order to create a friendly and comfortable atmosphere for the discussion sessions, I often seek inspiration from TV hosts. To ensure that students will volunteer to share their solution to the problems (in English), we let in-class participation account for 6% of the final grade. This grading policy generally works well in terms of facilitating discussion, but some students objected it in the end and questioned about the fairness. I would like to hear some comments from our friends at NCCU. If time allows, I will also report some of the statistics regarding EMI at different colleges across NTHU, and how we encourage all the colleges to find what EMI means to them and identify their own path to promote it.