Requirements: An enthusiasm and a notebook PC for hands-on experiments.

Course Objectives:
The Objective of this course is to provide a technical insight for business students, through learning about communication fundamentals, contemporary applications and hands-on Experiments. Meanwhile, students are required to conduct a practical application in business communication’s domain as a final project. During the final-project era, students may finally realize how engineers facing technical bottlenecks, and then transforming these experiences into skills that how technical people may think and how our proposal can be practical.
The course is dividing into two modules: 1) Lecture, 2) Project-in-process. In the beginning half-semester, an introduction over networking fundamentals will be lectured, including OSI 7 Layers, Ethernet Protocol, TCP/IP Protocol, and so on. Then, in the latter half-semester, one-third of class will be communication next-step presented by the instructor, and in the rest of the class, students are requested to discuss about their final project with either the instructor or TA while making routinely presentation.
Communication technologies are regarding as the crucial part of IT/EE industry. The students, who dedicate themselves into high-tech industry, should always view technical knowledge as prerequisites, while gaining insight through industries, and apply those insights into management issues.

Grading Policy:
The grading is based on class participation, assignment, exams, and final project as follows:
1) Class participation and assignment(s ) 20%
2) Homework 20%
3) Mid-term Examination 30%
4) Final Project 30%

Final Project:
The class should divide into three groups toward the following three topics:
1) Networking Advance: Being a hacker!
2) RFID in real: Ubiquitous managing!
3) Web 2.0: Mag-oogle!

Project 1: Advanced Networking-- Being a hacker!
In this project, the team should practice what you have learned in class to hack into a designed Internet scenario addressed by TA. (Required knowledge: TCP/IP Protocol, Ethereal Sniffer, Decoding techniques)

Project 2: RFID in real world--- Ubiquitous security!
In this project, the team is request to design a management system for RFID security system. The system should be practical in managing physical security and monitoring. (Require either of the following knowledge: (1) SOP or (2) Hardware assembly, J2EE, Operation Management.)

Project 3: Web2.0: Mag-oogle!
In this project, the team is about to develop an E-magazine, including interface, meta-data schema, and search facility. The project is requested to enable individual article download and keyword-advertisement insertion. (Require either of the following knowledge: (1) Data mining for strategic marketing or (2) Database related Web-page interfacing and Marketing concepts.)

Course Schedule:
D a t e T o p i c
Part I: Lecture
9/20 Introductions to Data Communications for Business
9/27 (Ch 1) The Network World: Topology and Ethernet
10/4 (Ch 2) The Internet: IP Address and IP Protocol
10/11 Managing Internet: IP, MAC addresses and Subnets
10/18 (Ch 3) Ethernet: MAC Address and Ethernet Protocol
10/25 Network Analyzer: Ethereal
11/1 (Ch 4) TCP: Packet Analysis
11/8 Mid-term (11/8~11/14)
Part II: Project-in-process
11/15 校慶停課
11/22 UDP: Packet Analysis
11/29 (Ch 5) Internet Routers: Routing Tables and Routing Protocols
12/6 Internet Gateways: Net Mask and TTL
12/13 Case Development and Experiments
12/20 Case Development and Experiments
12/27 Project Progress Reporting
1/3 Project Progress Reporting
1/10 Final Presentation