Statement of Purpose
LLM

When I entered university in 1992, Taiwan was undergoing drastic political transition, shifting from Authoritarian to Democracy. The long repressed freedom and human rights belief affected every aspect of our society, particularly our political and legal system. No longer acting as a tool used by the authority for strict social control, the highly logical legal system began to develop and represent the ideology and execution of fair and justice. At that time, I became tremendously interested in law and passed a very competitive National College & University Entrance Exam to study in the prestigious Soochow University Department of Law.

Soochow University Department of Law is renowned for its teaching in Comparative Jurisprudence and Commercial Law. Students must go through a five-year program to thoroughly understand Continental Law and Anglo-American Law. The required first year JD courses include American Constitution, American Criminal Law, Contracts, Torts and etc. In addition, the commercial law covers company law for both Taiwan and the US, tax law and legal statues related to stock and bonds. Considering Taiwan's goal in building a healthy and efficient financial market to replace Hong Kong and Singapore in becoming Asia-Pacific Financial Center, I chose to concentrate my study in this field. Aside from legal courses related to Stock and Bonds and Tax Law, I also took copyright Law, International Economics, and International Organizations: GATT WTO and etc. Outside of class, I was on the Soochow University Baseball Team and was the captain for the team from 1992 to 1995.

After graduation from Soochow University, I was one of the only five students in my class passing the National Graduate School Entrance Exam. In Graduate Law Institute, I further researched the ideological backgrounds and history of our legal process, procedures and the legislation of legal statues. Through my study, I hoped to have a deeper understanding and gain insight to our legal system instead of merely practicing legal statues mechanically. My graduate courses included Current Economics, Political Science, Social Beliefs, and Ideology. I also strengthen my understanding in Methodology. My study in graduate school greatly benefited my legal pursuit. As a result, I was selected to participate in National Cheng-Chi University Academic Visit to the Mainland China. Upon finishing graduate school, I started my job in a future trading company. With my legal background, I was an auditor for my company, in charge of setting internal company regulations and participating in auditing rules of securities and futures exchange commission.

My two years of work experience has deepened my understanding of Taiwan's financial capitalist market. Because Taiwan is far behind from other countries in its structure or regulations, it is not qualified to take on the role of Asia-Pacific Financial Center. In particularly, Taiwan lacks professional knowledge in its secondary capital market management and control in related products and regulations. Often, regulations are borrowed from other countries to be cut and paste to get by the legislative needs despite the fact that these regulations may not suit Taiwan's market situation. Because of the lack of adequate knowledge of other countries' legal structures, conflicts among the different regulations we borrowed can be observed everywhere. To overcome these conflicts and problems in our legislation, various government departments make up their own rules when they see fit. This temporary relief has not only caused tremendous confusion in management; it has also provided loophole for businesses to get through normal operations. Taiwan's management of its capitalist market is similar to those of other Asia countries in its overemphasize on increasing trade amount while neglecting market stability. As a result, businesses have enormous power to make unreasonable demands. Meanwhile, administrative organization intrudes openly interfere market functioning. This inefficiency in our legal structures has repeated financial crises and market crushes. Not only our capitalist market failed it function, investors and enterprises are victimized; hence negatively influenced Taiwan's future economic development. Presently, I hope to enter LL.M. program in the US, a highly effective financial market with advance legal environment to support it. With the knowledge received in the LL.M. program, I plan to help create new financial instruments and establish a legal environment in good conditions to improve efficiency, lessen risks in our capitalist market and improved Taiwan's financial international competitiveness.

I have been involved in Taiwan's futures industry from the its beginning. During this four years, I have been involved in the establishment of various related regulations and legal statues. I find that the US has the most developed and advanced financial market and related legal structure and to date, Taiwan still borrows most of its legal procedures from the U.S. As a result, I hope to study various courses necessary for building Taiwan's future financial market, such as corporate law, security and futures, management of capitalist market, merge, tax law, negotiation and international economics. I hope to gained a more complete understanding to related legal structure, in order to elevate my ability to help strengthen Taiwan's international financial market and overcome any obstacles we may encounter. Upon finishing LL.M. program, I plan to take employment at government agency to be in charge of policy making and legislation, particularly in the area of globalizing and enhancing our capitalist market. In addition, I plan to become a professor at university to introduce fundamental knowledge and pass on information to students.

Study Plan
Electrical Engineering, B.S.

Nothing can deter my ambition to advance and gain in-depth knowledge in the field of electrical engineering. Electrical engineering has long been the symbol for high tech industry and is considered an essential element in modern society. It is also a subject that highly interests me.

My study at Taipei Institute of Technology has furthered my understanding in the field of electrical engineering. In addition to foundation courses, courses such as Control Concept, Basic Industrial Electrical Engineering and Application, Digital Circuit Application, Mechanical Engineering, Control of Electric Motor, and Generating Engineering provided me with advanced knowledge. As important as academic pursuit, while in school I sharpened my ability to think in logical manner, gather data, and overcome any obstacles. I was most interested in subjects such as communications, control system and application of electronics. After graduating from Taipei Institute of Technology, I decided to advance in these areas. Following professors' suggestions and my careful consideration, I find Georgia Institute of Technology to be the most ideal institution for me. I believe your excellent faculty and facility will satisfy my desire to learn.

While at Taipei Institute of Technology, I took Electronics Instrumentation. This class introduced wave filter, transistor characteristics, and digital IC design. The year before graduation was also my most fulfilling year. I studied about automatic control, frequency response analysis, stability, and control system design. In my elective course Electromagnetic, I developed knowledge of electrostatics, magnetostatics, Maxwell's equation, radiation and propagation of electromagnetic concepts. My other elective course Industrial Electronics helped me gain understanding in industrial electronic elements and control mechanism, and digital electronics circuits. These three courses together enlighten me with knowledge in the three major fields: control, communication and electronics.

Taipei Institute of Technology requires every graduate to complete a thesis project with a selected advising professor. A teammate and I chose 'the Equipment of Automatic Production' as our thesis topic and focused on connecting mechanical arms, warehouse system, lathe, mill and conveyor to allow material be processed through this automatic system. While doing the project, I applied knowledge learned in classes, such as data collection, situation simulation and analysis. We encountered many unforeseen problems, such as difficulty in finding elements, incompatibility between real life situation and theories, mechanical problems and differences in options between my teammate and I. However, it was because of the many problems, I matured as a person and an engineer. With perseverance and serious attitude, I worked out all the problems with my teammate. We consulted with our advising professor many times and after many all nights of tests and analysis, we produced a project that we were very proud of and earned an 'A' on the project. Our project placed top 10^th out of 230 projects and was granted an honorary award. Even more importantly, I learned a lot. The project has also taught me how to work in teams and the importance of teamwork.

I participated in the intern program at Taipei Institute of Technology and worked at AAA Plastics Corp, XXX International Computer Inc, and YYY Chemicals & Fiber Corp. These hands-on intern experiences provided me opportunities to better understand the industry. My employers highly praised my performance as I received 'A's for the internship. After graduation from Taipei Institute of Technology, I entered the military and during the 2 years I was able to apply the electrical engineering theories learned in school to many real life situations and further developed my potential.

The diverse and professional curriculum at Georgia Institute of Technology is the greatest attraction to me. I hope to develop advance knowledge in the areas of communication system, electronic application and control system. At the same time, information of other supporting fields such as computer network, digital signal processing and IC design is also essential. I hope to become a student at Georgia Institute of Technology. I am confident I have the ability to accept any challenges that may come my way.

Personal Statement
大學部

My parents have been involved in educating youth their entire life. My father is an elementary school principle and my mother a schoolteacher. In their packed schedule, their own children's educational needs are still their top priority. I have the advantage of being one of the twins with an elder brother. We shared a lot of experiences growing up. In addition to always paying attention to our school work and making sure we understand the importance of having a good and solid education, my parents spend much time in taking my brother and I to museums and theaters, and travelling with us. Abundant resources were available to my brother and I and we have taken advantage of these opportunities. I have decided to follow my parent's path and pursue a career in the education field.

With both parents being in the education field, I have been able to observe and learn many teaching techniques from them. For example, I learned the best way to teach students to memorize nouns or formulas is to use intellectual methods and practices, because reasoning works better than cramming. I have also noticed that when talking with students, teachers should take the psychological prospective into consideration as well. I believe that everyone appreciates a certain degree of decent respect, particularly in his/her learning experience.

Moreover, I was allowed an inside look at Taiwan's education system. I feel Taiwan's education needs improvement. For example, student clubs and associations in Taiwanese school system need to generate more input from diversified programs. Students' activities need improvement both in terms of quality and quantity. However, in Taiwan, educators do not provide enough support to schools in terms of funding and human resources to improve the quality of Taiwanese student's education.

My parents' influences have highlighted my interest in Psychology and Education. I believe teachers play an important role in students' development. They may use different methods to explore and stimulate students potential. Watching my parents, I realize there is nothing more satisfying to a teacher than watching students grow and mature academically or personally. I have made my career decision long ago to become a teacher or a guidance counselor. I would like to continue my studies in the US as I can learn not only the most advanced teaching theories and methods, but I can also learn from being a student in US's open learning environment. By studying in the US, I will have more international exposure and broaden my horizons. Studying with people from diverse backgrounds will be an excellent opportunity for me to enrich my study experience. I hope to absorb knowledge both in and outside of classroom and share it with my students one-day.

It is my hope that under the guidance of your faculty and with the use of your facilities, I shall be able to pursue further knowledge in the education field. Fulfillment of this objective will not only satisfy my intellectual curiosity, but also enable me to make greater contribution to my country.