Engineering education in Taiwan
Engineering is one of the most popular majors among universities in Taiwan. The engineering degrees are over a quarter of the bachelor's degrees in Taiwan. Because high-technology manufacturing is the main industry in Taiwan, there are many career opportunities for engineering majors in the country.
Engineering Majors
Out of the top fifty popular majors in Taiwanese Universities, there are eleven engineering majors in the list.
| Number | Majors | Popularity |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Electrical Engineering | 34,846 |
| 5 | Information Technology | 30,874 |
| 6 | Electronic Engineering | 30,255 |
| 7 | Mechanical Engineering | 30,029 |
| 13 | Industrial Engineering | 13,073 |
| 22 | Civil Engineering | 8,493 |
| 28 | Chemical and Material Engineering | 6,465 |
| 29 | Communicational Engineering | 6,127 |
| 31 | Chemical Engineering | 5,854 |
| 33 | Architectural Engineering | 5,814 |
| 38 | Computer Engineering | 4,925 |
| total 176,755/609256 |
National Engineering Universities
- National Taiwan University (NTU): famous alumni of National Taiwan University include; Chang-Lin Tien, the 8th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley and Jin Au Kong, is a world-renowned American magnetic engineer.
- National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST)
- National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT)
- National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU)
- National Central University (NCU): It built the tallest astronomical observatory in East Asia, which is Lulin Observatory. Famous alumni include Xiao-tong Lu who was the technical director of the Apollo program and involved in the exploration of Mars program of the United States.
- National Chiao Tung University (NCTU)
- National Tsing Hua University (NTHU): famous alumni in engineering field include; Way Kuo, the current president of City University of Hong Kong and also IEEE Fellow. National Tsing Hua University is the university has the most alumni who awarded by Nobel Prize such as Yuan Tseh Lee, Chen Ning Yang, and Tsung-Dao Lee.
- National Chung Cheng University (CCU)
- National Cheng Kung University (NCKU): In 2007, National Cheng Kung University had formed the Antigua Guatemala historical site protection group, which is the only University had enrolled an international architectural and civil engineering plan.
- Shu-Te University (STU): DESIGN school in Taiwan similar to HAL Osaka College of Tech & Design - CS on Game Creation, DigiPen - CS on RTIS, CalTech - CS on Networking & Scientific Computing, UC Berkeley - CivE, M.Arch., or CS on OS, Networking, & GR Research, U of U - B.S./M.S. in CS on CG (Phong shading), Ohio State - CS on CG Research (ACM SIGGRAPH), Carnegie Mellon - B.S. in CS with Music, Cornell - CivE, M.Arch., or CS on CG (near NYIT CG Lab), MIT - CivE, M.Arch. (I. M. Pei), or CS on ACDL, USC Thornton - Composition (Basil Poledouris or Vocal/Guitar in Bands like Linkin Park/Desmond Child/Lou Pearlman/Max Martin/Difang and Igay Duana/Jay Chou), Juilliard - Composition (Piano Virtuoso like Joe Hisaishi/Yiruma) or Instrument (Yo-Yo Ma), Berklee - Minor in Video Game Scoring (Nobuo Uematsu/Yoko Shimomura/Takashi Niigaki/Koji Kondo/Jesper Kyd/Jeremy Soule/Christopher Tin) + MP&E (Quincy Jones), High School of Art and Design (or self-taught + portfolio) - Illustration (Neal Adams/Larry Hama or like Rumiko Takahashi/Naoko Takeuchi/Hirohiko Araki/Lin Cheng-Te 'Young Guns'/Jungshan/Ayami Kojima/Kinu Nishimura/Yoshitaka Amano), CalArts - Experimental Animation (Peter Chung/Peter Sohn or like Walt Disney/Osamu Tezuka/Hayao Miyazaki/Naru Omori/Daniel Dociu/Sparth), Gnomon - VFX Animation, Animation Mentor - Character Animation online, VFS - 3D Animation, Gobelins - Character Animation, ECSCP - Fashion Design (Issey Miyake or like Vera Wang/Jimmy Choo), Istituto Marangoni - Fashion Design, Central Saint Martins - Fashion Design (Johan Ku), Parsons - Fashion Design (Jason Wu/Alexander Wang), FIT - Fashion Design (David Chu), Yale - M.Arch. (Maya Lin/Norman Foster/Eero Saarinen), Harvard - M.Arch., AA - M.Arch., TU Delft - CivE or M.Arch., UMich - AutoE, CivE, M.Arch., or B.S. in CS, University of Leeds - AutoE, Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau - AutoE, Chalmers - AutoE, ArtCenter - Auto Design, CCS - Auto Design, IAAD - Auto Design (Sergio Pininfarina), Royal College of Art - Auto Design, Hochschule Pforzheim - Auto Design, UMEA University - Auto Design, or Tokyo Communication Arts - Auto Design
- National Kaohsiung Marine University (NKMU)
- National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYU)
See also
- Engineering education
- Nuclear power in Taiwan
- Startup ecosystem (Sales/Consumer behaviour/ROI)
- Jen-Hsun Huang - Nvidia
- Jerry Yang - Yahoo!
- Tony Hsieh - Zappos (Motto with Delivering Happiness)
- Steve Chen - YouTube previously at PayPal with Elon Musk
- Web development "Internet of Things" (Prototype/Coding Tools/The Mythical Man-Month/Agile/SDLC/CS)
- Mobile app dev/Mobile app
- Implosion - Never Lose Hope by Rayark Inc. and try HAL Osaka College of Technology & Design
- Objective-C with ReactiveCocoa (iOS)
- Java with Hadoop or with Spark (Android OS)
- Video game dev with "Angry Birds" or "World of Tanks" (Robotics/Boston Dynamics/Mechatronics/AI)
- Hamilton Chu producer with finance of Halo 1 at Bungie near DigiPen as Nintendo school in USA
- Bootstrapping/Project finance/VC financing (Crowdfunding/Angel/VC) and (Gov Support Tax incentive/Grant/Incubators) at Kaohsiung
- Game engine (Unreal Engine/CryEngine/Unity 3D/Torque/OGRE) for (Terrain deformation/Ragdoll physics)
- Online MMO and TCP/IP Routing (SubCom Cable) Networking (Sat Spy) Coding with Low latency from Load testing
- C/C++ (Eclipse)
- Assembler (VTune, CodeAnalyst, Shark, or Valgrind)
- Lua
- Perl and Shell script with Bash (Linux OS)
- 3D computer graphics (Buzz "Lightyear" Aldrin/Space Travel/Mars missions/Sci-Fi/Shader/CG in Discrete Math)
- Peter Sohn alumni of CalArts, Disney school, along with John Lasseter
- Next Media Animation and Wang Film Productions
- Clip Studio Paint and Toonz with Wacom Intuos 3 & 4
- MyPaint
- Adobe Photoshop
- GIMP
- Autodesk 3ds Max with CUDA CAx-Workstation
- Autodesk Maya (RenderMan) with Mo-cap for locomotion and Facial Mo-cap for emotion againt Uncanny valley
- Blender
- ZBrush and Modo
- xNormal and nDo2
- Mari with Nuke by The Foundry with Render farm Supercomputer
- Institute of Engineering Education Taiwan
- Education in Taiwan
References
External links
- Institute of Engineering Education Taiwan
- Ministry of Education Republic of China (Taiwan)
- The problems with English teaching in Taiwan
- Education - Reform Fattens Cram School Coffers
- Solutions to Taiwan's Education Woes - The Government: Five Urgent Tasks
- Education Reform - Excellent Teachers Nurture Creative Students
- Electronics - Taiwan 2.0 - The island’s electronics firms are in need of an upgrade - The Economist
- For the internet age, Taiwan’s ICT industry needs a new model
- Taiwan’s Ecosystem Mapping Project
- Taiwanese Incubators and Accelerators on the map
- Taiwan Angel Investors - AngelList
- The most ridiculous ideas that eventually became successful startups
- GDCO 2010: Interview with Victor Kislyi about World of Tanks
- Walter Elias Disney - Entrepreneur
- Incentives - Invest in Taiwan Department of Investment Services
- National Taiwan University (NTU)
- National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST)
- National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT)
- National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU)
- National Central University (NCU)
- National Chiao Tung University (NCTU)
- National Tsing Hua University (NTHU)
- National Chung Hsing University (NCHU)
- National Chung Cheng University (CCU)
- National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)
- Shu-Te University (STU)
- National Kaohsiung Marine University (NKMU)
- National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYU)
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