Promoting Academic Excellence & Developing World Class Research Centers at NCKU

1. Promoting Academic Excellence & Developing World Class Research Centers at NCKU Academician Michael M. C. Lai, President of NCKUMay 14, 2009

2. History of NCKU • 1931 Founded as Tainan District School for Higher Industrial Education • 1946 Upgraded to Taiwan Provincial College of Engineering • 1956 Expanded to Taiwan Provincial Cheng Kung University • 1971 Renamed as National Cheng Kung University

3. 9 Colleges • Engineering • Electrical Engineering & Information Science • Planning & Design • Liberal Arts • Sciences • Management • Medicine • Social Sciences • Bioscience and Biotechnology • With 40 departments and 51 graduate institutes.

4. Size • Students：20,855 (10,571 undergraduates; 10,284 graduate students) • Faculty：1,827 (715 professors; 417 associate professors; 358 assistant professors; 220 lecturers ; 117 other ) • Staff：3,806 (1,531 University employees, 2,275 University Hospital employees) • Campus：188 hectares. (Main campus 83 hectares, An-Nan campus 73 hectares, Kuei-Jen campus 27 hectares, Dou-Liu campus 5 hectares)

5. Annual Budget –Income MOE Special fund

6. Education Philosophy of NCKU • Balanced humanity and science education • Well-rounded trans-disciplinary knowledge • Global awareness and social concern • Personal integrity and community involvement • Professional competency

7. Fields Ranking for NCKU (Top 100) (Top 100) (Top 100) Essential Science Indicators was updated on March 1, 2009 to cover an 11-year period, January 1, 1998-December 31, 2008. 7

8. Special Fund MOE’s “5-year, 50-billion” Project • To develop top universities and elite research Centers • 2 comprehensive universities： －National Taiwan University (100 million USD/y) －National Cheng Kung University (51.6 million USD/y) • 10 specialty universities： －To establish world-class research centers First phase: 2006-2007 Second phase: 2008-2010

9. Funds Distribution Million NTD(Million USD) * Reserves include 1. Liberal Arts Special Fund (0.83), 2. Landmark Project (3.64), 3. Recruitment of Top Teams (3.26), 4. Flexible Fund (3.69) * 9

10. Goals • Improve teaching • 2. Upgrade research • 3. Promote internationalization • 4. Improve research and education infrastructure

11. Administrative Structure Advisory Board Teaching Research Headquarters Internationalization Infrastructure Secretarial Affairs

12. Improving Teaching • Recruitment of top students • －Elite student program • －Early admission policy • NCKU English Eagle Project • Balancing humanity with science education • Improving general education • Consolidating courses and encouraging • interdisciplinary studies • Faculty development and evaluation

13. Upgrading Research • General improvement of faculty output • － Department-based research awards (first phase) • － Landmark research projects (second phase) • － Top-down research projects (e.g., Medical device) • － Humanity and social science initiative • Focus on 8 integrated research centers • Research performance awards • －Overall contribution awards (Top 5%, 15%, 25%, 40%) • －Publication awards (top 5% journals, e.g. Science, Nature, Cell) • －Improvement awards • Landmark Project grants • Industry-academia cooperation • Recruitment of distinguished scholars – flexible salary

14. Integrated Research Group

15. Publications A&HCI) SCI 、 、 Papers per faculty (SSCI Papers per faculty 2.5 2.12 2 1.85 1.73 1.5 1.5 1 0.5 0 2005 2006 2007 2008 Year Web of Science (WOS) 50% 40% 15

16. Numbers of papers published and cited Essential Science Indicators was updated on March 1, 2009 to cover an 11-year period, January 1, 1998-December 31, 2008. 16

17. Industry-Academia collaboration 17

18. Recruiting Distinguished Scholars

19. Internationalization • Increasing the number of foreign students • Exchanging students • Hosting international conferences and visitors • Collaboration with Asian-Pacific universities • Institute of Innovations and Advanced Studies ( IIAS )

20. Internationalization * Target value 20

21. Profiles of international students at NCKU Top countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Canada, Vietnam and America… Exchange students: Mainland China, South Korea, Australia, France, Japan, America, Germany, UK, Poland, Netherlands, Austria. 21

22. International activities Da-Hsuan Feng (UT Dallas) as SEVP for R&D SATU (Southeast and South Asia and Taiwan University Presidents’ Forum): NCKU is a permanent host UMAP (University Mobility in Asia and Pacific): NCKU is the Secretariat of Taiwan Sister universities: a total of 116 universities Dual degree programs with9 universities: Case Western Reserve, Temple, Polytechnic, Southern Illinois, California State, University of Milan, Texas Tech, Houston, Institute Polytechniqu des Sciences Advancees (IPSA) Active research collaboration: U. Washington, Ohio State, Purdue, etc. J. Exp. Biol. & Med. Editorial office at NCKU Texas High-Speed Rail Transportation Agency T3 alliance: NCKU, National Chung-Hsing University and National Sun Yat-sen University (Research Triangle) 22

23. Institute of Innovations and Advanced Studies，IIAS 23

24. International visitors Britton Chance (United States National Academy of Sciences, Pennsylvania) Oliver Smithies (Nobel Prize2007,North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Robert Grubbs (Nobel Prize 2005, California Institute of Technology) Aaron Ciechanover (Nobel Prize2004, Israel) Claude Cohen-tannoudji (Nobel Prize 1997, France) David Chang ( Polytechnic University in New York ) Yvan Guindon (President, Royal Society of Canada ) Mona Nemer (Vice President of Research, University of Ottawa, Canada) Victor Zue (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Amnon Aharony (Ben Gurion University and Tel Aviv University, Israel ) Ora Entin-Wohlman (Ben Gurion University and Tel Aviv University, Israel ) 24

25. Improving Infrastructure • Library investment • 2. Computer network • 3. Shared equipment • 4. Research buildings • 5. Student and faculty housing • 6. Campus beautification

26. Infrastructure Completed (I) Infrastructure Yun-hsuan Ecological Science and Technology Building (under construction) Integrated Clinical Medical Building (under construction) Chi Mei Building Joint Shared Facility Center Historic Monuments Dormitory & Alumni Hall

27. Infrastructure Completed (II) Infrastructure Library Computer Network Campus Geographic Information System Shared equipment Arts Center Museum

28. Advisory Board Purpose： - To advise and evaluate on the planning and execution of the project - To link the university with other world class universities for interaction and connections. Membership： Invite the presidents of the universities and distinguished scholars. Meeting： Regular meetings of the Advisory Board shall be held twice a year

29. Target University • Nagoya University (first phase) • Kyoto University (Second phase) similarity between Kyoto Univ. and NCKU: • University size • One of the two best universities in Japan/ Taiwan • A comprehensive university located in a historical city of cultural heritage and humanitarian spirit • A well-fledged university confronted with student/faculty recruitment competition from the university in capital city

30. NCKU in world university rankings Overall Ranking • 350 in Shanghai Jiao-Tung ranking (2008.8) • 328 in HEEACT (2008.8) • 276in Spain Webometrics Ranking (2009.1) By Fields • 41 in Engineering, HEEACT 2008 • 216 in Natural Sciences, HEEACT 2008

31. Challenges facing NCKU • Research productivity reaching a plateau (especially quality) • Failures to recruit top faculty scholars • Low international visibility • Low student diversity (mostly regional students)

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