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

May 14, 2009

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History of NCKUHistory of NCKU

1931 Founded as 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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9 Colleges9 Colleges

Engineering Electrical Engineering & Information Science Planning & Design Liberal Arts Sciences Management Medicine Social Sciences Bioscience and Biotechnology

With 40 departments and 51 graduate institutes.

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SizeSize

Students ： 20,855 (10,571 undergraduates; 10,284 graduate students)

Faculty ： 1,827 (715 professors; 417 associate professors; 358 assistant professors; 220

lecturers ; 117 other )

Staff ： 3,806 (1,531 University employees, 2,275 University Hospital employees)

Campus ： 188 hectares. (Main campus 83 hectares, An-Nan campus 73 hectares, Kuei-Jen campus

27 hectares, Dou-Liu campus 5 hectares)

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Annual Budget –IncomeAnnual Budget –Income

NTD US$

Government subsidy: 2169 million (64.7 million)

Tuition and fees: 1049 million (31.3 million)

Sponsored Program: 2067 million (61.7 million)

Other income: 1739 million (51.91 million)

Total: NTD 7024 million

1700 million

(US$209 million)

(50 million)MOE Special fund

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Education Philosophy of NCKUEducation Philosophy of NCKU

Balanced humanity and science education

Well-rounded trans-disciplinary knowledge

Global awareness and social concern

Personal integrity and community involvement

Professional competency

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Fields Ranking for NCKUFields Ranking for NCKU

Essential Science Indicators was updated on March 1, 2009 to cover an 11-year period, January 1, 1998-December 31, 2008.

ESI (1998-2008)

Discipline

NCKUPapers

NCKURanking

NCKUCitations

NCKURanking

NCKU Citations Per Paper

Clinical Medicine 2,134 352 20,157 485 9.45

Chemistry 1,996 159 15,262 290 7.65

Engineering 3,775 18 14,044 52 3.72

Physics 2,309 161 11,916 375 5.16

Materials Science 2,078 26 10,349 57 4.98

Biology & Biochemistry 547 390 4,982 609 9.11

Environment/Ecology 397 214 2,684 379 6.76

Pharmacology & Toxicology 253 245 2,188 351 8.65

Plant & Animal Science 223 631 1,788 649 8.02

Computer Science 760 79 1,330 217 1.75

All Disciplines 16,237 195 96,845 406 5.96

(Top 100)

(Top 100)

(Top 100)

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Special Fund Special Fund

MOE’s “5-year, 50-billion” ProjectTo develop top universities and elite 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 world-class research centers

First phase: 2006-2007

Second phase: 2008-2010

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Funds DistributionFunds Distribution

Million NTD(Million USD)

Teaching, 260.2 ,(7.77),15%

Infrastructure, 239.3,(7.14), 14%

Research, 481.7 ,(14.38),29%

Reserves, 382.5 ,(11.42),23%

Departmental operation,42.0 , (1.25),2%

Faculty Recruitment andAwards, 142.3 , (4.25),8%

Internationalization, 152.0,(4.45), 9%

Reserves include 1. Liberal Arts Special Fund (0.83), 2. Landmark Project (3.64), 3. Recruitment of Top Teams (3.26), 4. Flexible Fund (3.69)

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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 contribution awards (Top 5%, 15%, 25%, 40%) － Publication awards (top 5% journals, 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

Papers per faculty (SSCI 、SCI 、 A&HCI)

1.5

1.731.85

2.12

0

0.5

1

1.5

2

2.5

2005 2006 2007 2008Year

Papers per faculty

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Publications

Web of Science (WOS)Web of Science (WOS)

1780

21672360

2712

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

2005 2006 2007 2008Year

SCI / SSCI / A&HCI Published PapersPublished Papers50%50% 40%40%

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Numbers of papers published and citedNumbers of papers published and cited

Essential Science Indicators was updated on March 1, 2009 to cover an 11-year period, January 1, 1998-December 31, 2008.

Item University

SCI/SSCI/A&HCIPapers （ 2008 ）

Papers （ 1998-200

8 ）Citations

Highly Cited Papers

h-index

NTU 5,158 28,384 208,246 200 104

NCKU 2,712 16,237 96,845 89 77

NTHU 1,464 10,963 70,188 73 67

NCTU 1,506 10,876 48,878 51 63

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Private organizations’ funding ratio in industry-academia collaboration 15% 14% 14% 14%

Intellectual property (Contract price: Thousand NT Dollars) 30,567 14,018 35,562 73,684

Intellectual property (Technology transfer income: Thousand NT Dollars) 16,369 17,448 17,031 21,788

Number of patents & new cultivars 34 70 64 61

Industry-Academia collaboration

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Recruiting Distinguished ScholarsRecruiting Distinguished Scholars

Year

Categories

2006 2007 2008 2009/04/20)

Chair Professor 2 22 18 10

Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow

48 49 61 54

Post-doc Research 128 150 130 52

Total 178 221 209 116

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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

134 272 211 470 600 700

Number of Exchange Students

- 97 115 158 150 180

Number of visiting scholars 107 644 274 856 850 900

Number of internationally – cooperated projects

17 44 65 45 60 70

* Target value

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Profiles of international students at NCKU

Top countries:

Indonesia, Malaysia, Canada, Vietnam and America…

Exchange students: Mainland China, South Korea, Australia, France, Japan,

America, Germany, UK, Poland, Netherlands, Austria.

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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 a permanent hostUMAP (University Mobility in Asia and Pacific):

NCKU is the Secretariat of Taiwan Sister universities: a total of 116 universitiesDual degree programs with 9 universities:

Case Western Reserve, Temple, Polytechnic, Southern Illinois, California State, University of Milan, Texas Tech, Houston, Institute Polytechniqu des Sciences Advancees (IPSA)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 Sun Yat-sen University (Research Triangle)

23Institute of Innovations and Advanced Studies ， IIAS

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International visitors

Britton Chance (United States National Academy of Sciences, Pennsylvania)

Oliver Smithies (Nobel Prize 2007, North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Robert Grubbs (Nobel Prize 2005, California Institute of Technology )

Aaron Ciechanover (Nobel Prize 2004, Israel)

Claude Cohen-tannoudji (Nobel Prize 1997, France)

David Chang ( Polytechnic University in New York )

Yvan Guindon (President, Royal Society of Canada )

Mona Nemer (Vice President of Research, University of Ottawa, Canada)

Victor Zue (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Amnon Aharony (Ben Gurion University and Tel Aviv University, Israel )

Ora Entin-Wohlman (Ben Gurion University and Tel Aviv University, Israel )

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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 (under construction)Integrated Clinical Medical Building

(under construction)

Historic Monuments

Dormitory & Alumni Hall

Joint Shared Facility Center

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Completed (I)Infrastructure Completed (I)

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Infrastructure

CampusGeographic Information System

Computer Network

Arts CenterShared equipment

Museum

Library

Infrastructure Completed (II)Infrastructure Completed (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

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 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)

similarity between Kyoto Univ. and NCKU:University size

One of the two best universities in Japan/ Taiwan

A comprehensive university located in a historical city of cultural heritage and humanitarian spirit

A well-fledged university confronted with student/faculty recruitment competition from the university in capital city

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NCKU in world university rankings

Overall Ranking350 in Shanghai Jiao-Tung ranking (2008.8)

328 in HEEACT (2008.8)

276 in Spain Webometrics Ranking (2009.1)

By Fields41 in Engineering, HEEACT 2008

216 in Natural Sciences, HEEACT 2008

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Challenges facing NCKU

Research productivity reaching a plateau (especially quality)

Failures to recruit top faculty scholars

Low international visibility

Low student diversity (mostly regional students)

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