National Cheng Kung University
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National Cheng Kung University is a national university
in Tainan City, Taiwan
. Its abbreviation is NCKU. In Chinese, its name is shortened to 成大 (Chéng Dà). Cheng Kung is named after Zheng Ch'eng-Kung
, who defeated the Dutch
and founded the Kingdom of Tungning
in Taiwan.
NCKU is one of the most prestigious universities in Taiwan, with a high reputation in science
, engineering
, medicine
, management
, planning
and design
. According to Times Higher Education- QS World University Rankings and Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, NCKU was ranked second or third among all universities in Taiwan. Many surveys throughout the years have shown that its students are most desired by Taiwanese companies. NCKU has 9 colleges, 40 departments, 82 graduate institutes, and 54 research centers, and it is also a major university, educational, and area-network center in Taiwan.
has offered NCKU NT$
1.7 billion annually for five consecutive years for its excellent academic performance and potential.
When the central government of the Republic of China
moved to Taiwan in 1949, it was one of the three existing colleges in Taiwan. As the number of colleges expanded, it was upgraded to a provincial
university in 1956, and then a national university in 1971. Former Minister for Education Wu Jin
served as the first president of the new National Cheng Kung University.
NCKU has 11 campuses: Cheng-Kung, Sheng-Li, Kuang-Fu, Cheng-Xin, Tzu-Chiang, Ching-Yeh, Li-Hsing, Dong Ning, Kuei-Jen, An-Nan and Dou-Liou Campuses.
On January 12, 2011, the Y. S. Sun Green Building Research Center was inaugurated. It is the world's first green educational center as well as Taiwan's first zero carbon building. The 4800 m² (51,666.8 sq ft)-facility cost NT$30 million (US$4.41 million) to construct, far below the original NT$180 million budget. Natural ventilation, limited power usage, reduced window size, and energy efficient lighting all contribute to the building's carbon neutrality.
President Michael Ming-Chiao Lai (賴明詔) headed NCKU from 2007 to January 31, 2011.
National university
A national university is generally a university created or run by a government, but which at the same time operates autonomously without direct oversight or control by the state. Some national universities are closely associated with national cultural or political aspirations...
in Tainan City, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
. Its abbreviation is NCKU. In Chinese, its name is shortened to 成大 (Chéng Dà). Cheng Kung is named after Zheng Ch'eng-Kung
Koxinga
Koxinga is the customary Western spelling of the popular appellation of Zheng Chenggong , a military leader who was born in 1624 in Hirado, Japan to Zheng Zhilong, a Chinese merchant/pirate, and his Japanese wife and died in 1662 on the island of Formosa .A Ming loyalist and the arch commander of...
, who defeated the Dutch
Dutch Empire
The Dutch Empire consisted of the overseas territories controlled by the Dutch Republic and later, the modern Netherlands from the 17th to the 20th century. The Dutch followed Portugal and Spain in establishing an overseas colonial empire, but based on military conquest of already-existing...
and founded the Kingdom of Tungning
Kingdom of Tungning
The Kingdom of Tungning was a government that ruled Taiwan between 1661 and 1683. A pro-Ming Dynasty state, it was founded by Koxinga after the Ming government in mainland China was replaced by the Manchu-ruled Qing Dynasty...
in Taiwan.
NCKU is one of the most prestigious universities in Taiwan, with a high reputation in science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
, medicine
Medicine
Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
, management
Management
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
, planning
Planning
Planning in organizations and public policy is both the organizational process of creating and maintaining a plan; and the psychological process of thinking about the activities required to create a desired goal on some scale. As such, it is a fundamental property of intelligent behavior...
and design
Design
Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
. According to Times Higher Education- QS World University Rankings and Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, NCKU was ranked second or third among all universities in Taiwan. Many surveys throughout the years have shown that its students are most desired by Taiwanese companies. NCKU has 9 colleges, 40 departments, 82 graduate institutes, and 54 research centers, and it is also a major university, educational, and area-network center in Taiwan.
Overview
Currently, there are about 22,000 students at National Cheng Kung University in 9 colleges, 40 departments, 82 graduate institutes, and 55 research centers. Starting from 2006, the Ministry of EducationMinistry of Education (Republic of China)
The Ministry of Education of the Republic of China is responsible for incorporating educational policies and managing public schools throughout the Free Area of the Republic of China. The ministry is a cabinet level governmental body of the Executive Yuan...
has offered NCKU NT$
New Taiwan dollar
The New Taiwan dollar , or simply Taiwan dollar, is the official currency of the Taiwan Area of the Republic of China since 1949, when it replaced the Old Taiwan dollar...
1.7 billion annually for five consecutive years for its excellent academic performance and potential.
History
National Cheng Kung University was established under Japanese occupation in January 1931 as . After the end of Japanese occupation, the school name was changed to Taiwan Provincial Tainan Junior College of Technology (台灣省立台南工業專科學校), and then Taiwan Provincial College of Engineering (台灣省立工學院).When the central government of the Republic of China
Republic of China
The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...
moved to Taiwan in 1949, it was one of the three existing colleges in Taiwan. As the number of colleges expanded, it was upgraded to a provincial
Taiwan Province
Taiwan Province is one of the two administrative divisions referred to as provinces and is controlled by the Republic of China . The province covers approximately 73% of the territory controlled by the Republic of China...
university in 1956, and then a national university in 1971. Former Minister for Education Wu Jin
Wu Jin
Wu Jin was the a Taiwanese Minister for Education between 1996 and 1998 under former president Lee Teng-hui.-Early life:Wu obtained his doctorate in mechanics and hydraulics from the University of Iowa, which is located in the United States in the state of Iowa...
served as the first president of the new National Cheng Kung University.
Campuses
On January 12, 2011, the Y. S. Sun Green Building Research Center was inaugurated. It is the world's first green educational center as well as Taiwan's first zero carbon building. The 4800 m² (51,666.8 sq ft)-facility cost NT$30 million (US$4.41 million) to construct, far below the original NT$180 million budget. Natural ventilation, limited power usage, reduced window size, and energy efficient lighting all contribute to the building's carbon neutrality.
Organization
The university has 9 colleges:- College of Liberal ArtsLiberal artsThe term liberal arts refers to those subjects which in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free citizen to study. Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic were the core liberal arts. In medieval times these subjects were extended to include mathematics, geometry, music and astronomy...
- College of Social Science
- College of ManagementNCKU IMBAThe Institute of International Management is the business school of National Cheng Kung University located in Tainan City, Taiwan. NCKU offers full-time, part-time, and executive programs, as well as partnering programs with schools in Canada, USA, and Taiwan granting the M.B.A and Ph.D.NCKU has...
- College of Sciences
- College of EngineeringEngineeringEngineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
:The Department of Engineering has been established since 1931 - College of MedicineMedicineMedicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
- College of Electrical EngineeringElectrical engineeringElectrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
and Computer ScienceComputer scienceComputer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems... - College of PlanningPlanningPlanning in organizations and public policy is both the organizational process of creating and maintaining a plan; and the psychological process of thinking about the activities required to create a desired goal on some scale. As such, it is a fundamental property of intelligent behavior...
& DesignDesignDesign as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan... - College of Bioscience & Biotechnology
President Michael Ming-Chiao Lai (賴明詔) headed NCKU from 2007 to January 31, 2011.
Previous directors
- Shih-An Wang (1946–1952)
- Ta-Chun Chin (1952–1957)
- Cheng-Hsing Yen (1957–1965)
- Yun-Ping Lo (1965–1971)
- Chao Nee (1971–1978)
- Wei-Noon Wang (1978–1980)
- Han-Min Hsia (1980–1988)
- Jer-Ru Maa (1988–1994)
- Jin Wu (1994–1996)
- Ting-Chia Huang (acting) (1996-1996)
- Cheng-I Weng (1997–2000)
- Hung-Shan Weng (acting) (2000–2001)
- Chiang Kao (2001–2007)
Notable alumni
- Samuel C. C. TingSamuel C. C. TingSamuel Chao Chung Ting is an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1976, with Burton Richter, for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle...
, Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
laureate, attended NCKU prior to moving back to the United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... - Pai Hsien-yungPai Hsien-yungKenneth Hsien-yung Pai , born July 11, 1937) is a writer who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer." He was born in Guilin, Guangxi, China at the cusp of both the Second Sino-Japanese War and subsequent Chinese Civil War...
and Cheng Nan-jungCheng Nan-jungCheng Nan-jung was a Taiwanese publisher and pro-democracy activist. He was the founder of the Freedom Era Weekly. He is most known internationally for setting himself on fire in support of Taiwanese independence.-Background and career:...
majored in engineering for one year in NCKU before they changed their interest to humanitiesHumanitiesThe humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
. - Chu Ching-wuChu Ching-wuPaul Chu is an Chinese-American physicist specializing in superconductivity, magnetism, and dielectrics. He is a Professor of physics and T.L.L. Temple Chair of Science in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Houston...
, physicist - Lung Ying-taiLung Ying-taiLung Ying-tai is a Taiwanese essayist and cultural critic. She occasionally writes under the pen name 'Hu Meili'....
, essayist and critic - Wang Chien-shienWang Chien-shienWang Chien-shien is a founder of the New Party. He was finance minister of the Republic of China from 1990 to 1992 and is the chairman of the Chinese Management Association...
, politician - Wu Po-hsiung, former Taipei MayorMayor of TaipeiThe Mayor of Taipei is elected to a four-year term. Former Presidents Lee Teng-hui, Chen Shui-bian have all held this position prior to being elected President.It was an appointed position from 1967 to 1994...
, KuomintangKuomintangThe Kuomintang of China , sometimes romanized as Guomindang via the Pinyin transcription system or GMD for short, and translated as the Chinese Nationalist Party is a founding and ruling political party of the Republic of China . Its guiding ideology is the Three Principles of the People, espoused...
chairman - Chung Laung LiuChung Laung LiuProfessor Chung Laung Liu , or C. L. Liu is an ethnic Chinese computer scientist. Born in Guangzhou, he spent his childhood in Macau. He received his B.Sc. degree in Taiwan, Master Degree and PHD in United States.-Biography:...
, computer scientist - C. Y. LeeC. Y. LeeC. Y. Lee is a Chinese architect based in Taiwan. Born in Guangdong, China. He received his bachelor's degree from National Cheng Kung University, and his master's degree from Princeton University...
directed the design of Taipei 101Taipei 101Taipei 101 , formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center, is a landmark skyscraper located in Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan. The building ranked officially as the world's tallest from 2004 until the opening of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2010...
, the world's second tallest, fully inhabited skyscraper. - Lin Hsin-iLin Hsin-iLin Hsin-i , a Taiwanese businessman. He served in the Democratic Progressive Party administration as Minister of Economic Affairs between 2000 and 2002, then as Vice Premier between 2002 and 2004....
, Chairman of the Industrial Technology Research InstituteIndustrial Technology Research InstituteThe Industrial Technology Research Institute is a non-profit research institute located in Taiwan under the supervision of the Republic of China Ministry of Economic Affairs. It conducts research and development in applied technologies to advance private sector growth... - Yi-Bing LinYi-Bing LinJason Yi-Bing Lin is the Chair Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Chiao Tung University since 1995, and since 2002, has been the Chair Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Management , at Providence University, a...
, Vice President of the Office of Research and Development at the National Chiao Tung UniversityNational Chiao Tung UniversityNational Chiao Tung University is a public university located in Hsinchu, Taiwan. It is recognized as one of the most prestigious and selective universities in Taiwan and is renowned for its research and teaching excellence in electrical engineering, computer science, engineering, management, and... - Tze-Chiang ChenTze-Chiang ChenDr. Tze-Chiang Chen, or T. C. Chen , joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1984. He is currently an IBM Fellow and the Vice President of Science and Technology at Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM Research Division in Yorktown Heights, New York.During the period of Feb. 1999 - Feb....
, IBM FellowIBM FellowAn IBM Fellow is an appointed position at IBM made by IBM’s CEO. Typically only 4 to 9 IBM Fellows are appointed each year, at the annual Corporate Technical Recognition Event in May or June. It is the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve.The IBM Fellows program...
, Vice President of Science and Technology at Thomas J. Watson Research CenterThomas J. Watson Research CenterThe Thomas J. Watson Research Center is the headquarters for the IBM Research Division.The center is on three sites, with the main laboratory in Yorktown Heights, New York, 38 miles north of New York City, a building in Hawthorne, New York, and offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts.- Overview :The...
, IBM Research Division - Ken P. ChongKen P. ChongDr. Ken P. Chong is a Professor at The George Washington University and an associate at the National Institute of Science and Technology . He was the Engineering Advisor, Interim Division Director and program director of Mechanics and Materials for 21 years at the U.S. National Science...
, director of the Division of Mechanics and Materials at the U.S. National Science FoundationNational Science FoundationThe National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
External links
- Official website (in English and Traditional Chinese)]
- NCKU Office of International Affair
- NCKU's masters & PhD English international-business program website
- The international students in NCKU-Tainan website (not affiliated with NCKU)
- Spring Semester 2009: Application Instructions for International Degree Students
- Office of International Affairs, NCKU
- Three universities in central and southern Taiwan forge alliance