National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
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The National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Traditional Chinese: 國立臺灣科技大學; Simplified Chinese: 国立台湾科技大学) was established on August 1, 1974, as the first higher education institution of its kind within Taiwan's technical and vocational education system. By extending this system to the highest level, this new school was intended to meet the need created by the rapid economic and industrial development of Taiwan for highly trained engineers and managers. The main campus, located in Taipei at 43 Keelung Rd, Sec. 4, covers an area of about 10 hectares, while the whole campuses cover up to 44.5 hectares. Current enrolment includes 4,953 undergraduates and 4,259 graduate students with 336 full-time faculties.
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[edit] Organization
On attaining university status in 1997, the school reorganized itself into the following five colleges: engineering, electrical and computer engineering, management, design, and liberal arts and social sciences.
Departments include mechanical engineering, polymer engineering, construction engineering, chemical engineering, electronic engineering, electrical engineering, computer science and information engineering, industrial management, business administration, information management, architecture, industrial and commercial design, and applied foreign languages.
There are also graduate schools in engineering, automation and control, materials science and technology, electro-optical engineering, management, finance, design, and technical and vocational education. In addition, the humanities department handles courses in the humanities and social sciences, our general education department handles courses offered to students in all departments which encourage them to explore fields of knowledge outside their majors, and the teacher education center trains teachers for Taiwan’s technical and vocational high schools. Altogether there are twenty-one separate academic teaching units which accept students into undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral programs.
[edit] Degrees
The university’s undergraduate division has two-year, four-year and continuing education programs. The two-year upper division program accepts graduates of technical junior colleges, while the four-year program seeks applicants from general and technical senior high schools. Continuing education programs are offered in the evenings by the departments of industrial management, electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, construction engineering, and applied foreign languages to those who are currently employed. Students who successfully complete the requirements in any of these three undergraduate programs are awarded a bachelor’s degree.
The master’s degree programs began accepting students in 1979. Those with a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in related fields from schools here or abroad are eligible to take the entrance exam. In addition, to encourage those already long in the workforce to advance their education, certain departments in the university also offer continuing education master’s programs in the evening. Students in these graduate programs who have successfully completed all the requirements, including a thesis and defense, are awarded a master’s degree.
In 1982 the university started to offer doctoral programs to holders of a master’s degree or its equivalent from schools here or abroad. From the year 2001, certain departments also began to accept students into doctoral programs in the continuing education division. Students in any of these doctoral programs who have successfully completed all the requirements, including a thesis and defense, will be awarded the doctorate.
[edit] Alumni
To date, a total of 48,337 students have graduated from the university’s undergraduate and graduate programs and are employed all over Taiwan. Among these graduates, only a small percentage has pursued study abroad. The overwhelming majority have devoted themselves to the various aspects of Taiwan’s economic development, to which many of our alumni are making important contributions. Because our graduates combine a solid theoretical foundation, abundant practical experience, and a professional attitude to their work, they are much in demand with both public and private enterprises.
[edit] The Presidents
Names and tenure in office of university presidents, past and present:
| Dr. LI-AN CHEN | August, 1974 - January, 1978. |
| Dr. GAU-WEN MAU | February, 1978 - July, 1981. |
| Dr. YEN-PING SHIH | August, 1981 - July, 1990. |
| Dr. CHING-TIEN LIOU | August, 1990 - July, 2000. |
| Dr. SHI-SHUENN CHEN (acting) | August, 2000 - December, 2000. |
| Dr. SHUN-TYAN CHEN | December, 2000 - January, 2005. |
| Dr. SHI-SHUENN CHEN | February, 2005 - present. |
[edit] See also
List of universities in Taiwan
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