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Promoting Academic Excellence & Promoting Academic Excellence & Developing World Class Research Developing World Class Research
Centers at NCKUCenters at NCKU
Academician Michael M. C. Lai, President of NCKU
October 21, 2008
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History of NCKUHistory of NCKU
1931 Founded as the “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”
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CollegesColleges Engineering Electrical Engineering & Information Science Planning & Design Liberal Arts Sciences Management Medicine Social Sciences Bioscience and Biotechnology
With 40 departments and 52 graduate institutes.
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SizeSize
Students: 20,538 (10,462 undergraduates; 6,948 students in master programs; 3,128 students
in doctorate programs) Faculty: 1,789
(722 professors; 403 associate professors; 341 assistant professors; 231 lecturers ; 92 other )
Staff: 3,673 (1,520 University employees, 2,153 University Hospital employees)
Campus: 183 hectares. (Main campus 83 hectares, An-Nan campus 73 hectares, Kuei-Jen campus 2
2 hectares, Dou-Liu campus 5 hectares)
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Annual Budget –IncomeAnnual Budget –Income
NTD US$
Government subsidy: 2153 million (65.3 million)
Tuition and fees: 1043 million (31.6 million)
Other income: 3466 million (105 million)
Competitive grants: 3.82 million (0.16 million)
Total: NTD 6665 million
1700 million
(US$202 million)
(50 million)MOE Special fund
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Education Philosophy of NCKUEducation Philosophy of NCKU
Balanced humanity and science education
Well-rounded cross-disciplinary knowledge
Global awareness
Personal integrity and community involvement
Professional competency
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Fields Ranking for NCKUFields Ranking for NCKU
FieldsHighly Cited
Papers Papers Ranking Citations Ranking
Citations Per
Paper
Chemistry 1 1,636 198 9,663 359 5.91
Clinical Medicine 14 1,814 373 15,054 524 8.30
Computer Science 2 5,90 93 1,163 179 1.97
Engineering 26 3,084 26 10,083 63 3.27
Environment / Ecology 1 323 227 1,860 388 5.76
Materials Science 5 1,701 26 7,330 64 4.31
Physics 10 1,814 210 8,248 430 4.55
All Fields 63 13,166 216 68,719 458 5.22
Essential Science Indicators was updated on March 1, 2007 to cover an 11-year period, January 1, 1996-December 31, 2006.
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Special Fund Special Fund
“5-year, 50-billion” Projectto develop First-class Universities and Top-level 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 top-level research centers
First phase: 2006-2007
Second phase: 2008-2010
Third phase?
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Funds DistributionFunds Distribution
Million NTD(Million USD)
Faculty Recruitmen andAwards, 120, (3.6), 7%
Teaching, 157.3 (4.8),10%
Reserves, 234 (7.1), 14%Research,
373.5,(11.3),23%
Infrastructure, 506.2,(15.3), 32%
Departmental operation,66, (2), 4%
Internationalization, 166,(5), 10%
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Goals Goals
1.Improve teaching
2. Upgrade research
3. Promote internationalization
4. Improve research and education infrastructure
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Administrative StructureAdministrative StructureAdministrative StructureAdministrative Structure
Headquarters
Advisory Board
Infrastructure
Internationalization
Research
Teaching
Secretarial Affairs
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Improving TeachingImproving 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
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Upgrading ResearchUpgrading 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 contributions awards (Top 5%, 15%, 25%, 40%)
- Publications awards (top 5% journals) (Top Journal e.g. Science, Nature, Cell)
- Improvement awards
Landmark Project grants
Industry-academia cooperation
Recruitment of distinguished scholars – flexible salary
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Integrated Research Group
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Research AccomplishmentsResearch Accomplishments
Items 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
SCI+SSCI papers 1,894 2,093 2,434 2,550 2,750 3,000
NSC projects / industry-university cooperation
(in million, NTD)2,558 2,680 2,950 3,113 3,275 3,437
Number of patents 32 71 67 70 100 130
Royalty from technology transfer (in million, NTD)
30.56 14 34.56 40 45 50
Number of incubation companies
23 45 23 23 23 23
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Numbers of papers published and citedNumbers of papers published and cited
Essential Science Indicators was updated on March 1, 2007 to cover an 11-year period, January 1, 1996-December 31, 2006.
Items
University
Papers Citations Citations Per Paper
Highly Cited Papers
NTU 23,968 156,631 6.54 139
NCKU 13,166 68,719 5.22 63
NTHU 9,586 51,975 5.42 51
NCTU 9,241 35,864 3.88 46
Taiwan 124,940 662,480 5.30 550
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PublicationsPublications
0
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600
900
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2400
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Year
Pap
ers
SCI+SSCI
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Recruiting Distinguished ScholarsRecruiting Distinguished Scholars
Year
Categories
2006 2007 2008(2008/09/30)
Chair Professor 2 22 17
Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow
48 49 59
Post-doc Research 128 150 125
Total 178 221 201
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InternationalizationInternationalizationInternationalizationInternationalization
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 )
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InternationalizationInternationalization
Items 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Number of international students
134 272 211 504 300 360
Number of foreign institutions in academic cooperation
88 93 114 124 133 142
Number of visiting scholars 107 644 274 330 400 480
Number of internationally – cooperated projects
17 44 40 50 60 72
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Profiles of international students at NCKU
Top countries: Vietnam, Malaysia, Canada?Exchange students: (which countries?)
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International activities
Da-Hsuan Feng (UT Dallas) as SEVP for R&DSATU (Southeast and South Asia and Taiwan University Presidents’ Forum): NCKU is the permanent hostUMAP (University Mobility in Asia and Pacific): NCKU is the Secretariat of Taiwan Sister universities: totaling 106 universitiesDual degree programs: Case Western Reserve, Temple, Texas Tech,Active research collaboration: U. Washington, Ohio State, Purdue, etc.J. Exp. Biol. & Med. Editorial office at NCKUTexas High-Speed Rail Transportation AgencyT3 alliance: NCKU, National Chung-Hsing University and National Chung-San University (Research Triangle)
23Institute of Innovations and Advanced Studies, IIAS
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International visitors
Congressman S. Ortiz (Texas), Y. Apeloig (Technion, Israel), Britton Chance
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Improving InfrastructureImproving Infrastructure
1. Library investment
2. Computer network
3. Shared equipment
4. Research buildings
5. Student and faculty housing
6. Campus beautification
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Chi Mei Building
Yun-hsuan Ecological Science and Technology Building
Clinical Medical Building
Historic Monuments
Dormitory & Alumni Hall
Joint Shared Facility Center
Infrastructure
Infrastructure Completed/under construction (I)
Infrastructure Completed/under construction (I)
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Infrastructure
CampusGeographic Information System
Computer Network
Arts CenterShared equipment
Museum
Library
Infrastructure Completed/under construction (II)
Infrastructure Completed/under construction (II)
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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 connectio
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Membership:
Invite the presidents of the universities and distinguished scholars.
Meeting:
Regular meetings of the Advisory Board shall be held twice a year
Advisory BoardAdvisory Board
Members University
Dr. Yuan Tse Lee Academia Sinica
Dr. Masuo Aizawa Tokyo Institute of Technology
Dr. Douwe D. Breimer Leiden University
Dr. Paul ChuHong Kong University of Science and Technology
Dr. Un-Chan Chung Seoul National University
Dr. Wolfgang A. Herrmann Technical University Munich
Dr. Akihisa Inoue Tohoku University
Dr. Martin C. Jischke Purdue University
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Target University
Nagoya University (first phase)Kyoto University (Second phase)
Similar in size between NCKU and KURelative position to Tokyo UniversityHistorical cultural city
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NCKU in world university rankings
301-400 in Shanghai Chao-Tung ranking354 in London Times? In
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Challenges facing NCKU
Research productivity reaching a plateau (especially quality)Failures to recruit top faculty scholarsInternational visibility lowLow student diversity (mostly regional students)
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