Promoting Academic Excellence & Developing World Class Research Centers at NCKU Academician Michael M. C. Lai, President of NCKU October 21, 2008

2 History 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”

3 Colleges Engineering Electrical Engineering & Information Science Planning & Design Liberal Arts Sciences Management Medicine Social Sciences Bioscience and Biotechnology With 40 departments and 52 graduate institutes.

4 Size 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 22 hectares, Dou-Liu campus 5 hectares)

5 Annual Budget –Income Annual Budget –Income NTDUS$ 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

6 Education Philosophy of NCKU Balanced humanity and science education Well-rounded cross-disciplinary knowledge Global awareness Personal integrity and community involvement Professional competency

7 Fields Ranking for NCKU Fields Highly Cited Papers PapersRankingCitationsRanking Citations Per Paper Chemistry11, , Clinical Medicine141, , Computer Science25,90931, Engineering263, , Environment / Ecology , Materials Science51,701267, Physics101, , All Fields6313, , Essential Science Indicators was updated on March 1, 2007 to cover an 11-year period, January 1, 1996-December 31, 2006.

8 Special Fund “5-year, 50-billion” Project to 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: Second phase: Third phase?

9 Funds Distribution Million NTD (Million USD)

10 Goals 1.Improve teaching 2. Upgrade research 3. Promote internationalization 4. Improve research and education infrastructure

11 Administrative Structure Headquarters Advisory Board Infrastructure Internationalization Research Teaching 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 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

14 Integrated Research Group

15 Research Accomplishments Items SCI+SSCI papers1,8942,0932,4342,5502,7503,000 NSC projects / industry- university cooperation (in million, NTD) 2,5582,6802,9503,1133,2753,437 Number of patents Royalty from technology transfer (in million, NTD) Number of incubation companies

16 Numbers 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, Items University PapersCitationsCitations Per Paper Highly Cited Papers NTU23,968156, NCKU13,16668, NTHU9,58651, NCTU9,24135, Taiwan124,940662,

17 Publications

18 Recruiting Distinguished Scholars Year Categories (2008/09/30) Chair Professor22217 Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow Post-doc Research Total

19 InternationalizationInternationalization 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 Items Number of international students Number of foreign institutions in academic cooperation Number of visiting scholars Number of internationally – cooperated projects

21 Profiles of international students at NCKU Top countries: Vietnam, Malaysia, Canada? Exchange students: (which countries?)

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 the permanent host UMAP (University Mobility in Asia and Pacific): NCKU is the Secretariat of Taiwan Sister universities: totaling 106 universities Dual degree programs: Case Western Reserve, Temple, Texas Tech, 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 Chung-San University (Research Triangle)

23 Institute of Innovations and Advanced Studies ， IIAS

24 International visitors Congressman S. Ortiz (Texas), Y. Apeloig (Technion, Israel), Britton Chance

25 Improving Infrastructure 1. Library investment 2. Computer network 3. Shared equipment 4. Research buildings 5. Student and faculty housing 6. Campus beautification

26 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)

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

28 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 Advisory Board MembersUniversity Dr. Yuan Tse LeeAcademia Sinica Dr. Masuo AizawaTokyo Institute of Technology Dr. Douwe D. BreimerLeiden University Dr. Paul Chu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Dr. Un-Chan ChungSeoul National University Dr. Wolfgang A. HerrmannTechnical University Munich Dr. Akihisa InoueTohoku University Dr. Martin C. JischkePurdue University

29 Target University Nagoya University (first phase) Kyoto University (Second phase) Similar in size between NCKU and KU Relative position to Tokyo University Historical cultural city

30 NCKU in world university rankings in Shanghai Chao-Tung ranking 354 in London Times ? In

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

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