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

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2400

1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

Year

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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

ns.

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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