College of Engineering Performs Excellence in 2020 Future Tech Award
The List of Winners of the 2020 Future Tech Award (2020未來科技獎) is released. This year, with the cooperation between Ministry of Science and Technology Academia Sinica, Ministry of Education, and Ministry of Health and Welfare, the scale of “2020 Taiwan Innotech Expo – Future Tech” (2020臺灣創新技術博覽會－未來科技館) held from Sept. 24th -26th ,2020 is the largest ever. Over 600 applications are received, and through careful examination and selection process from exports of various fields, finally 71 research results are chosen to be awarded 2020 Futuristic Breakthrough Technology Award.
The awarded technologies focused on the areas of precision health ecosystem (34 winning research), electronic & optoelectronics (12 winning research), smart machinery and novel materials (15 winning research), AI & IOT application (10 winning research) and excellence research center, with over 100 innovative technologies on display. The cumulative number of visitors reached 53,000, and 7,000 matchmaking discussions took place.
With 14 winning research results, National Taiwan University becomes the biggest winner this year, and among these, College of Engineering, NTU receives 6 Future Technology Awards. Besides, Advanced Research Center for Green Materials Science and Technology (前瞻綠色材料高值化研究中心) is awarded Best Popular Award by the research “Rollable and soft photonic meta-device” led by Prof. Yang-Fang Chen (陳永芳)’s research team, Department of Physics. NTU.
Six Future Tech Breakthrough Awards of College of Engineering include “Dual Core Self-Centering Brace” from Associate Dean of CoE, Prof. Chung-Che Chou (周中哲), Civil Engineering, “A Non-Invasive AI Imaging Technique for Quick Risk Assessment of Stroke and Cardiovascular Diseases” from Prof. Hao-Ming Hsiao (蕭浩明), Mechanical Engineering, “Intelligent In Situ Monitoring of Membrane Fouling” from Prof. Kuo-Lun Tung (童國倫)’s research team, Chemical Engineering, “Bio-inspired sweat collection for health monitoring during physical activity” from Prof. Ying-Chih Liao (廖英志), Chemical Engineering, “SS-MRAM: A superlattice based STT-MRAM with extra-high performance” from Prof. Wen-Jeng Hsueh (薛文証), Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, and “Infectious disease diagnosis and water quality monitoring using gold nanoclusters immobilized paper and a flow controllable microfluidic device” from Prof. Chien-Fu Chen (陳建甫), Graduate Institute of Applied Mechanics.