Taiwan’s Education System

Elementary School (6)Elementary School (6)

Junior High School (3)Junior High School (3)

Senior High Senior High School (3)School (3)

Sr. VocationalSr. VocationalHigh School (3)High School (3)

University & University & College (4)College (4)

Tech.Tech.Univ. & Univ. & Col. (4)Col. (4) 2-year2-year

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Doctoral Program (3-7)Doctoral Program (3-7)

Taiwan’s Education System

1974 Founded as The National Taiwan Institute of Technology

1st and the Best Technical University in Taiwan

1997 Renamed The National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Current Status / Academics

Current Status / Faculty, Staff, and Student Statistics

Faculty Students (as of Dec., 2009) Staff Members

Professors 161 Doctoral 1025 (10%) Administrative Staff

251

AssociateProfessors

101 Master’s 3428 (34%) Maintenance Workers

64

Assistant Professors

115 Bachelor’s 5658 (56%) Technical Staff 6

Instructors 13Security Guard 4Teaching

Assistants5

Special Project Faculty

63

Total 458 Total 10,111 Total 325

2009 THE-QS RankingsOverall: Ranked 351 in the world (QS THES)Ranked 72 in Asia 400 / 2009

Subject University (Ranking)

Arts & Humanities NTU (60), NTHU (222), NCCU (244), NCKU (277), NTNU (289)

IT & Engineering NTU (47), NTHU (84), NTUST (143), NCKU (160), NCTU (166)

Life Sciences & Biomedicine NTU (45), NTUST (185), NTHU (241), NSYSU (252), NCU (256)

Natural Sciences NTU (51), NTHU (150), NTUST (254)

Social Sciences NTU (58), NCCU (240), NSYSU (275)

Achievements (1)

Overall

Top 11 University Grant. Received part of the top-level university grant sponsored by Ministry of Education (MOE)

The Best Technical University in Taiwan (MOE)

Most graduate programs are ranked top 5th to 6th nationally

Ranked No. 6 in the world by the German iF Design Award rankings

The fourth most favorite university of the enterprises in Taiwan according to the surveys by 104 Job Bank and Global View Monthly Magazine

University-Industry Cooperation

Ranked 4th in The Industry-University Cooperative Research Awards (Ministry of Education)

Technology Licensing

Ranked 3rd in overall amount of NSC Technology Licensing funding

Declared one of the top five Best Technology Licensing Centers by the National Science Council (NSC)

Achievements (2)

Faculty

Ranked 6th in number of recipients of Excellent Research Awards by the National Science Council (NSC)

Ranked 1st in Technology Licensing individually-allocated funding

Received the EJECT Audience Award at the International Short Film Festival in Berlin, Germany

Received The ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Computer Animation Festival Award

Students

Graduates chosen by Cheer’s Magazine as among the industry’s top six most-preferred students

Awarded more than 60 awards in international or national design contests in the past five years, including 2007 iF Design Award (Germany)

High-rise Building Earthquake-Resistant Beam Patent

Patent used in at least 86 buildings and in the Taipei 101 Skyscraper

HPC Patent

Used in Tuntex Sky Tower, Kaohsiung

Research Achievements

Research Achievements

The ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Computer Animation Festival Award

(competed with Steven Spielberg)

2005 Jin-Yi Award

The First Prize of Creative Design Award for Photovoltaics and Application

Research Centers Automation & Control Center

Center for Intelligent Robots

Center for the Study of Lottery & Commercial Gaming

Communication & Electromagnetic Technology Center

Construction Occupation Health & Safety Center

Ecological & Hazard Mitigation Engineering Research Center

Expensive Instrument Center

Materials Science & Technology Center

Nanotechnology Engineering Center

Opto-Mechatronics Technology Center

Power Electronics Technology Center

Taiwan Information Security Center

Research Centers Taiwan Information Security Center

Collaboration Software/Hardware security

Jointly founded by Academia Sinica, NTUST, NCTU, NCKU

UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), etc.

Software verification, IC card security, embedded system security

TWISC (Taiwan Information Security Center) Network security

TWISC@NTUST TWISC@NCTU TWISC@NCKU

Security protocol, wireless network security, firewall, intrusion detection system

Data security Information Security Management System

Cryptography, data protection Security policy, privacy protection, intelligent property protection

Opto-Mechatronics sub-system

Opto-Mechatronics component design & manufacturing

Low db Plastic Optical Fiber Disk Array heat transfer analysis

Opto-Mechatronics system design & integration

Double-wave length laser light

Micro-drill Laserinspection system

Research Centers Opto-Mechatronics Technology Center

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Research Centers Communication and Electromagnetic Technology Center

Major Research Topics

Miniature Chip Antennas

Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID)

Antennas and Wave Propagation for Wireless Communications

RF, Microwave, and Millimeter Wave Circuits

Communication Systems

Integrated Circuit Designs

Electromagnetic Interferences at Power and Radio Frequencies

Electromagnetic Properties of Materials Planar/Cylindrical Near Field Measurement Chamber

EMC Semi-anechoic Chamber

Far Field Measurement Anechoic Chamber

Multi-function Anechoic Chamber

Robot Theater

Dancing, Singing, Imitation show, Drawing, etc.

Intelligent Robot DOC-1 & DOC-2

Teach English Spelling

Solve Algebraic Problem

Play Gobang, Chess and Chinese Chess

Recognize Human Faces

Interpret Facial Expressions

Research Centers Center for Intelligent Robots

Taiwan Building Technology Center

Building Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Center

Building Structure and Hazard Mitigation Center

Green Building Materials Center

Intelligent Building Research Center

New Generation Building Systems Center

Steel Structure Engineering Center

Internationalization (statistics of 2008 vs. 2009)

MOU and agreements152 → 173

Exchange Students72 → 111

incoming: 33 incoming: 59outgoing: 39 outgoing: 52

Dual Degree Programs

5 → 7

Dual Degree Students10 → 9

incoming: 4 incoming: 7outgoing: 6 outgoing: 2

English Programs

18

English-taught Courses

170

International Environment

International Students

226 → 272

Internationalization

Foreign Students

272 (2.7%) international students (as of Dec. 2009)

Countries of Origin

Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, U.S., Czech, India, Italy, etc.

Courses

50% of the courses in the Engineering Graduate School are conducted in English

Intensive English Summer Camps

Free Mandarin-Chinese Language Courses

Activities of International Affairs (1/2)

Signing of Memorandum of Understanding

Forum

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International Festival

Activities of International Affairs 2/2 Activities: sports,

cultural events, art performance, religious clubs, and more

International Partnerships U.S.

Ohio State Univ., Univ. of California-Berkeley, Tulane Univ., Univ. of Kansas, Rochester Inst. of Technology, etc.

Central America

Univ. of San Carlos, etc.

Europe

Univ. of Leeds, ETH Zurich, EPF Lausanne, Ecole Speciale D'Architecture, Univ. Rene Descartes Paris, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Czech Technical Univ./Prague, etc.

Australia

Queensland Univ. of Technology, Univ. of Queensland, etc.

Asia

Kanagawa Univ., Tokyo University, Moscow State Technical Univ., Moscow Aviation Inst., Korea University, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Univ. of Mongolia, Univ. of the Philippines

International Cooperation

Harvard Business School, USA

Cooperation Program on Participant-center method Case

Method and participant-centered Learning

University of California, Berkeley, USA

Earthquake Research Center

Tokyo University, Japan

Cooperative Agreement and Student Exchange

University of Salford, UK

Cooperative R&D on Creative Thinking Center

North Carolina State University

Summer Research Program

St. Petersburg University, Russia

Research Cooperation

University of Queensland, Australia

Student Exchange and Dual Degree Programs

Czech Technical University

5 exchange students and research cooperation

Ministry of Education, Nicaragua

Pursuing 20 of Taiwan Scholarship for International Students

Ministry of Education, Indonesia

Dual Degree and Student Exchange Program

Ohio State University, USA

Student Exchange

China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan (CJKT)

Architecture Design Workshop

EU-FP NCP-Taiwan

Bring Taiwan’s research energy into the European R&D framework platform, initiate the best achievements of international cooperationBring Taiwan’s research energy into the European R&D framework platform, initiate the best achievements of international cooperation

The best service platformThe best service platform

Promoting Taiwan’s National Research Programs to Join FP7Budget of National Research Programs is NTD 15 billion per year, with a total budget of around NTD 105 billion during a 7-year period, which is about 4% of the total budget of FP7.

National Research Programs FP7 Programs

Telecommunications ICT, Transport, Security

Agricultural Biotechnology Food, Agriculture, Biotechnology

Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals Food, Agriculture, Biotechnology

Genomic Medicine Health

Taiwan e-learning and Digital Archives Program ICT

System-on-Chip ICT

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Nanotechnologies

Energy Energy

Opportunities at Taiwan Tech

International internships

Summer research programs

Research collaborations + joining FP7 programs

University of choice for industry-academe cooperation

University of choice for entrepreneurially-minded students in Taiwan

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