The Government of Taiwan, through its Ministry of Education, has renewed its cooperation with AIT in the form of faculty secondments and the provision of scholarships for joint research with Taiwanese universities.
Professor Tsong-Ming Lin, President of the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, informed AIT that the Taiwanese Ministry of Education will sponsor and second three faculty members to AIT, namely Dr. Huang, Chia Hsing, Associate Professor in Finance, for a one year period (Ph.D. in Finance, University of Pennsylvania, USA); Professor Wang, Yaw-Juen, Professor in Electrical Engineering, for a two year period (Dr.-Ing de l' Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France); and Professor Gong, Dah Chuan, Professor in Industrial Engineering, for a two year period (Ph.D. in Industrial and System Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA).
The Ministry of Education will also sponsor the doctoral studies of two lecturers, Mr. Hsiao-Kuang Kao and Mrs. Su-Nan Tsai, from the Chia-Nan University of Pharmacy and Science (CNU), who will enroll in AIT’s School of Management (SOM) during the August 2007 intake. Two faculty members from CNU, Ms. Lizone Chang, and Ms. Yi-Chieh Wang, have been studying in the SOM doctoral program since August 2006.