• Vision

To be one of the world's premier engineering schools

• Mission

The mission of the College of Engineering is to provide an environment where education and research can complement and enhance one another. We strive to provide the highest quality of education by constantly improving course curricula, cultivating both fundamentals and specializations, promoting ethics and social responsibility, as well as enhancing international vision and leadership, to produce outstanding engineers and researchers who can tackle the demands of national infrastructure and technology advancement. In research, we are dedicated to developing engineering-related fields, emphasizing both basic and applied research, and strengthening collaboration with industry to enhance both quantity and quality of research, in order for each of the College’s academic fields to attain world-class standards as well as domestic leadership.

　

• Core Competency of College of Engineering

1. Professional Knowledge and Innovation Ability

2. Humanity Cultivation and Global Vision

3. Personal Morality and Engineering Ethics

4. Leadership and Teamwork

5. Industrial Technology and Social Compassion

• Dean's Message

　　The College of Engineering (COE) at National Taiwan University (NTU) was first founded as the Faculty of Engineering at the Taihoku Imperial University in 1943. It was renamed with NTU in 1945 and had since enjoyed 68 years of glorious history. Through the efforts of the former deans and our faculties, the COE at NTU has maintained as the most prestigious Engineering College in Taiwan. This reputation also endowed the COE with the responsibility of leading and promoting the development of Taiwanese industry. Over the years, the COE graduates have served as leaders of the major companies, academies and research institutes. The COE researches have also stimulated many of the new technology advancements and the faculties have participated in numerous National technology policies. This year (2011), the Department of Materials Science and Engineering had ranked No. 3 in the National College Entrance Examination. The Department of Chemical Engineering had ranked No. 5, the Department of Mechanical Engineering had ranked No. 6, the Department of Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering had ranked No. 13 and the Department of Civil Engineering had ranked No. 17. These advancements have evidenced that our efforts are well recognized by the society. It is also a clear indication that our related industries are now gaining refreshed attention from our society. The recognition is also the driving force behind our continuous efforts.

　　Facing the strong pressure for research excellence, the COE still regard high quality education as the most important task for all universities. NTU COE is proud of many of our graduates trained by our programs and who now play leading roles in our industry and academy. The COE continuously review our course curriculums to seek improvement. In addition to the strong theoretical courses and the great variety of choices, we put strong emphasis on good experimental trainings. During the past years, we have made use of the “Aim for Top University” funding to renovate our teaching facilities. This includes infrastructure and IT equipments. The COE has also co-supported the related professors with the university grants to enhance our lab facilities. We believe in the effectiveness of learning-by-doing and undertake to allow every student access to the lab equipment. For internationalization, the COE offers nearly 100 courses in English. To promote overseas experiences, there are more than 49 collaboration MOUs with various foreign universities and 20 exchange student programs with prominent colleges. The COE provides financial supports for our students to go to our partner universities not only for exchange studies but also for dual degrees. In the year 2010, there are more than 196 foreign students studying in our college. All in all, these are the efforts to provide our students with a multi-culture atmosphere. The COE at NTU is the most prestigious Engineering College. We want our students to feel the pressure and to be proud of having been here.

　　From the research aspect, there are averages of 992 SCI/SSCI journal papers published every year for the last three years (2008 ~ 2010). This number actually increases to 1054 for the last year. That accounts for an average of 4.0 papers per faculty. The research grants from National Science Council and various other agencies total to one hundred and six million US dollars for the past three years. Most of our research outcomes are closely related to the industrial developments. These research outcomes generated around one point four million US dollars through technology transfer. As far as number of papers is concerned, the COE already matches the performances of most top universities; however, we believe matching numbers does not stand for academic excellence. In addition to the publication of papers, the COE will now turn our focus toward establishing a prominent position as one of the top universities in the world.

　　Our vision is “Be the best in Asia and become world top college”. To reach this goal, The College of Engineering will continue to encourage high quality publication from our faculty, will endeavor to support our faculty to participate in worldwide academic activities, to play a more active role in the society, and to help with the editorial board in the top class journals. Many of our research laboratories are already in the world leading position. We bear the responsibility of leading the engineering development in Taiwan. We will continue to conduct frontier researches, to train the best engineers, and to work closely with our engineering community.

• Brief History

　The Engineering College of National Taiwan University was created in 1945. Its predecessor was the Faculty of Engineering of the Taihoku Imperial University, founded in 1943. In the beginning, the College consisted of four departments: Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering. After six-decade growth and maturity, it has been developed into a comprehensive engineering college, including the five Departments of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering; together with six independent Graduate Institutes; namely, Environmental Engineering (founded in 1977), Applied Mechanics (1984), Building and Planning (1988), Industrial Engineering (1994), Biomedical Engineering (1998), and Polymer Science and Engineering (2002). The name of the former Graduate Institute and Department of Naval Architecture established respectively in 1973 and 1976 was changed into that of the Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering in 2002. The Graduate Institute of Materials Science and Engineering founded in 1982 began offering an undergraduate program in 2001, which became the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. To date, all the eleven Departments and Graduate Institutes in this College provide masters’ and doctoral programs, and the Industrial Engineering Graduate Institute will even provide in-service master program in Zhubei campus starting from 2011 fall semester. Other than the present space of research and teaching, COE was granted the permission and subsidy from the Ministry of Education in 2009 to build up the new building of College of Engineering.

　The Department of Electrical Engineering first set up in 1945, together with the later Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering were moved out from CoE and reformed the College of Electrical Engineering in 1997, which was subsequently renamed the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2000, and the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering also became one of the departments of CoEECS.