Facts about YunTech |
YunTech
was founded in 1991 and has gone through several stages, including the
founding, rooting, takeoff, leading, brand-establishment, and it is now in its
paradigm period. Yuntech has always adhered to the spirit of the school motto, sincerity, respect, perseverance, and innovation,
and aims to develop into an internationally renowned university that
integrates industry and academia and emphasizes innovative design. In recent
years, YunTech has successfully promoted "reciprocal industry-academic
educational collaborations" and become the "Central Taiwan Industrial
Talent Cultivation Campus." Over the past decade, YunTech has benefited
from financial support projects via the Ministry of Education grants, including
the "Paradigm University of Science and Technology Development Plan"
and the "Rewarding Teaching Excellence Plan for Universities of Science
and Technology and Technical Colleges," YunTech has transformed its brand
concept into school management by utilizing the advantages of industry-academia
cooperation and innovative teaching, creating a practical and applicable
technological university that integrates industry and academia and emphasizes
innovative design. In 2018, YunTech has continued to receive five-year
subsidies from the Ministry of Education's "Higher Education Sprout
Project", further constructing a dual-track learning system to providing
students with a suitable development and practical learning environment and
developing a problem-based learning (PBL) system that connects with the
industry, aiming to achieve the talent cultivation goal of suitable talent
promotion and quality employment. YunTech will continue to refine its vision of
becoming an internationally renowned university that emphasizes innovative
teaching and industry-academia collaboration. This vision includes
"aligning the development of faculty and students with economic,
environmental, and social sustainability needs," "making outstanding
contributions to local and global welfare," "shaping an innovative,
intelligent, friendly, and sustainable campus," and "ranking among
the top 100 in Asia and the top 1000 in the world." YunTech hopes to excel
in the four aspects of student cultivation, teacher development, university
contribution, and international influence.
YunTech
currently houses five colleges: Engineering, Management, Design, Humanities and
Sciences, and Future, with 24 departments (including 5 degree programs) in the
four-year daytime division; 2 departments in the two-year daytime division; 2
degree programs in the four-year extension division; 28 institutes (including 1
degree program) in the master's daytime division; 15 institutes (including 1
degree program) in the master's in-service division; and 13 institutes
(including 1 degree program) in the doctoral division. Currently, YunTech is
serving about 10,000 students, and approximately 68% of these are
undergraduates, 32% are graduate students. There are 415 full-time teachers, of
whom over 97% are assistant professors or higher, and 91% have doctoral degrees.
More than half of the teachers have doctoral degrees from renowned universities
in Europe, America, and Japan. More than 91% of the teachers have practical
experience, and over 80% of the teachers are involved in industry-academia
cooperation, contributing to teaching.
In
terms of teaching, YunTech continues to pursue diversity and excellence within
its existing faculty-based teaching system. In addition to offering
comprehensive PBL courses, the university has also initiated structural
adjustment projects at the institutional level (such as establishing college-level
micro-courses in information technology, promoting an elite program,
establishing an international cloud alliance, and setting up "innovative
interdisciplinary" micro-courses in various departments). These
initiatives encourage enrollment in STEM courses, strengthen digital
transformation momentum, and advocate for industry-academia co-education
training programs. In line with the significant changes in learning patterns
under the 108 curriculum, the university has clarified students' learning
adaptation from enrollment to graduation, established guidance information for challenging
subjects, and improved the schooling stability. The schooling stability reached
96.69% in the 2022 academic year. YunTech has deepened the application of
workplace-like facilities, cultivated core competencies needed by future
industries through course design, and proposed a learning path map of
"five domains" and "five powers". Through the planning of
the learning map, YunTech focuses on key industries, assisting students in choosing
their career development path among numerous courses, providing career
development paths, laying a solid foundation for core competencies, and achieving
the goal of "graduation means employment, and employment requires quality".
In
terms of industry-academia collaboration, YunTech ranked first nationwide in
the amount of industry-academia collaboration per teacher, according to the
Ministry of Education's 2018 public information on university affairs. Since then,
it has been ranked first among technical and vocational colleges for four
consecutive years. In the performance of "Industry Income (Knowledge
Transfer)," YunTech ranked 29th out of 1,800 universities from 104
countries and regions in the 2023 Times Higher Education Special Edition.
YunTech has created a friendly environment for industry-academia collaboration,
establishing the "Industry-Academia Research Building Dream Hub" as a
base for the cultivation/incubation of technical and vocational talents in
Taiwan. It promotes practical teaching by teachers and practical learning by
students, perfecting the system of talent cultivation, industry-academia
research and development, and technology transfer. The Dream Hub serves
as a bridge between the industry and YunTech, facilitating the alignment of
applied research in academia with industry needs, integrating technical
elements and commercialization capabilities, attracting enterprises for joint
development or production trials, and creating a cooperative platform for
university and industry technology research and development. The teachers of
YunTech are actively involved in industry-academia collaboration, and the
amount of industry-academia collaboration per teacher has consistently been
among the top seven nationwide, demonstrating YunTech's substantial strength in
talent cultivation, industry-academia collaboration, and technology research
and development.
In
terms of international exchange, YunTech has signed sister school agreements
with 356 renowned universities in 41 countries worldwide, with international
students accounting for approximately 4.2% of the total student population. The
university actively expands students' global perspectives by organizing various
international academic exchange activities, operating exchange student
agreements with sister schools, promoting overseas teaching for teachers and
students, encouraging students to study or intern abroad, and recommending
teachers for overseas practical study. The teaching qualities have received
international certification and are in line with international standards. The
College of Engineering has received the IEET (International Engineering and
Technology Education) international "Engineering and Technology Education
Accreditation" for all its departments. Similarly, the College of
Management passed the AACSB international accreditation for the first time in
2014, making it the first national university in the central region to receive
this accreditation. In 2019, it passed the accreditation again, making YunTech
the first domestic university of science and technology to pass the AACSB
re-accreditation, aligning the quality of education and student capabilities
with international standards.
YunTech
has demonstrated excellence in various aspects such as teaching quality,
academic ethos, performance of industry-university cooperation, industrial
services, international exchanges, social services, international exhibition of
inventions competition, and post-graduation employment. With the funding from
the "Higher Education Sprout Project", YunTech aims to enhance the
public nature of higher education, fulfill the social responsibility of the
university, and implement sustainable development plans. YunTech's strong
industry-academia research and development capabilities and academic research
energy are believed to create a multiplier effect on YunTech's teaching and
research capabilities. We will continue to actively seek various resources,
cultivate students with sound personalities and independent thinking abilities,
continue research and innovation in various professional fields, and promote
the sustainable development of society, economy, and environment through
knowledge.
Following
the execution of the previous five-year plan (2018-2022), YunTech has achieved
outstanding results in various aspects. In terms of innovative teaching, with the
new teaching system of the "YunTech PBL Research Center" and
"College of Future", Yuntech has been shortlisted for the top eight
nominations for the "Best Teaching Strategy of the Year" in the 2020
Times Higher Education (THE) Asia Awards. The coming five-year plan is guided
by the action plan of "advancing generations and literacy, digital and
sustainable integration: Precisely developing the core competencies of next-generation
interdisciplinary talents (Five Domains and Five Powers)", integrating the
five strategies into it. YunTech focuses on the learning patterns of students under the 108 curriculum, and also understands the future needs of emerging technology industries, closely follows the four major aspects of Higher Education Sprout Project, and carries out the strategic outline of "Five Domains" (Generation Domain, Literacy Domain, Intelligence Domain, Sustainability Domain, International Domain) and "Five powers" (Self-learning, Information, Interdisciplinary, Professional, Mobility). This strengthens the alignment of new students under the 108 curriculum with future emerging technology industries, key talents of the National Development Council (NDC), and the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Through the funding of the Higher Education Sprout Project, students can possess the core competencies of the "Five Domains" and "Five Powers" during their time at YunTech, enabling them to find precise employment after graduation. YunTech adopts the five strategies (Characterization, Academization, Industry-Academicization, Internationalization, Precision) to connect six offices, link five colleges, and develop characteristic teaching and technical research and development, hoping to accelerate the internationalization of the school, cultivate more excellent talents, implement deepening industry-academia cooperation. In the next five years, YunTech will move towards its goals with the five major action strategies of "Innovative Teaching, Industry-Academia Capacity and Characteristics, Contributing to Sustainability, Enhancing International Reputation, Precision Education" taking " advancing generations and literacy, digital and sustainable integration" as the direction of action planning, becoming an "Internationally Renowned University Characterized by Innovative Teaching and Industry Connection". |
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