Promoting Academic Excellence Developing World Class Research

Promoting Academic Excellence & Developing World Class Research Centers at NCKU Academician Michael M. C. Lai, President of NCKU May 14, 2009

History 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 2

9 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. 3

Size 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) 4

Annual 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 (US$209 million) 1700 million (50 million) MOE Special fund 5

Education 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 6

Fields Ranking for NCKU ESI (1998 -2008) NCKU Citations Per Paper NCKU Papers NCKU Ranking NCKU Citations NCKU Ranking Clinical Medicine 2, 134 352 20, 157 485 9. 45 Chemistry 1, 996 159 15, 262 290 7. 65 3, 775 18 14, 044 52 3. 72 2, 309 161 11, 916 375 5. 16 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 16, 237 195 96, 845 406 5. 96 Discipline Engineering (Top 100) Physics Materials Science All Disciplines (Top 100) Essential Science Indicators was updated on March 1, 2009 to cover an 11 -year period, January 1, 1998 December 31, 2008. 7

Special Fund MOE’s “ 5 -year, 50 -billion” Project To 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 8

Funds Distribution * Million NTD (Million USD) * 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) 9

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

Administrative Structure Advisory Board Teaching Research Headquarters Internationalization Infrastructure Secretarial Affairs 11

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 12

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 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 13

Integrated Research Group 14

Publications Web of Science (WOS) 50% 40% Papers per faculty SCI A&HCI) Papers per faculty (SSCI 、 、 2. 5 2. 12 2 1. 5 1. 85 1. 73 1. 5 1 0. 5 0 2005 2006 2007 2008 Year 15

Numbers of papers published and cited Item Univ ersity SCI/SSCI/A&HCI Papers（2008） （1998 -2008） 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 Essential Science Indicators was updated on March 1, 2009 to cover an 11 -year period, January 1, 1998 -December 31, 2008. 16

Industry-Academia collaboration Private organizations’ funding ratio in industryacademia collaboration 15% 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 34 70 64 61 Number of patents & new cultivars 17

Recruiting Distinguished Scholars Year 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 52 178 221 209 116 Categories Total 18

Internationalization 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 ) 19

Internationalization Items 2005 2006 2007 2008 *2009 *2010 134 272 211 470 600 700 - 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 Number of international students Number of Exchange Students * Target value 20

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. 21

International activities Da-Hsuan Feng (UT Dallas) as SEVP for R&D SATU (Southeast and South Asia and Taiwan University Presidents’ Forum): NCKU is a permanent host UMAP (University Mobility in Asia and Pacific): NCKU is the Secretariat of Taiwan Sister universities: a total of 116 universities Dual 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 NCKU Texas High-Speed Rail Transportation Agency T 3 alliance: NCKU, National Chung-Hsing University and National Sun Yat-sen University (Research Triangle) 22

Institute of Innovations and Advanced Studies，IIAS 23

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 ) 24

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

Infrastructure Completed (I) Integrated Clinical Medical Building (under construction) Yun-hsuan Ecological Science and Technology Building (under construction) Chi Mei Building Infrastructure Historic Monuments Joint Shared Facility Center Dormitory & Alumni Hall 26

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

Advisory Board Purpose： Members University Dr. Yuan Tse Lee Academia Sinica Dr. Masuo Aizawa Tokyo Institute of Technology Membership： Dr. Paul Chu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - To advise and evaluate on the planning and execution of the project - To link the university with other world class universities for interaction and Dr. Douwe D. Breimer Leiden University connections. Invite the presidents of the universities and distinguished scholars. Dr. Un-Chan Chung Seoul National University Meeting： Dr. Wolfgang A. Technical University Munich Herrmann Regular meetings of the Advisory Board shall be held University Dr. Akihisa Inoue Tohoku twice a year Dr. Martin C. Jischke Purdue University 28

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 29

NCKU in world university rankings Overall Ranking 350 in Shanghai Jiao-Tung ranking (2008. 8) 328 in HEEACT (2008. 8) 276 in Spain Webometrics Ranking (2009. 1) By Fields 41 in Engineering, HEEACT 2008 216 in Natural Sciences, HEEACT 2008 30

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) 31

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