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 seven decades of growth and maturity, it has been developed into a comprehensive engineering college, including six departments: Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering, together with five independent graduate institutes: Environmental Engineering (founded in 1977), Applied Mechanics (1984), Building and Planning (1988), Industrial Engineering (1994), and Polymer Science and Engineering (2002). The Graduate Institute and Department of Naval Architecture, established respectively in 1973 and 1976, were renamed as the Department of 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. The Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, founded in 1998, began offering an undergraduate program in 2018, which became the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

To date, all eleven departments and graduate institutes in the College provide master’s and doctoral degree programs. The Graduate Institute of Industrial Engineering has offered an in-service master’s program on the Zhubei campus since the 2011 fall semester. To cultivate interdisciplinary talents equipped with integrated skills, the Ph.D. Program of Green Materials and Precision Devices and the International Graduate Program of Molecular Science and Technology (NTU-MST) were established in 2016 and 2017, respectively. The Taiwan International Graduate Program for Sustainable Chemical Science and Technology was established in 2021. In 2022, the newly established English IET Program (a bachelor program) was designed to cultivate engineering talents to meet the demands of emerging engineering industries.

The College of Engineering (CoE) currently has a total floor area of approximately 116,457 square meters. In addition to the CoE Building, which is shared by the College Office, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, the Graduate Institute of Industrial Engineering, and the Institute of Polymer Science and Engineering, other departments and institutes are spread across various buildings on campus. Notable facilities completed in recent years include the Civil Engineering Research Building (2008), the Environmental Research Building (2011), the YongLin Biomedical Engineering Hall (2015), Tseng Jiang Hall (for Chemical Engineering, 2018), the building extension of the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE), donated by the Ruentex Group to the Civil Engineering (2020), and the Department of Mechanical Engineering Building/Tsung Cho Chang Hall (2024).

FORMER DEANS

Tse-Hong Loh	1945 ~ 1946
Ngou-Shou Wai	1946 ~ 1948
Jeou-Shen Pern	1948 ~ 1953
Chen-Hsing Yen	1953 ~ 1955
Kow-Kung Choong	1955 ~ 1965
Tsu-Nien Chin	1965 ~ 1972
Chao-Chung Yu	1972 ~ 1979
Tung-Ying Wung	1979 ~ 1985
Chun-Tsung Wang	1985 ~ 1990
Chin-Lien Yen	1990 ~ 1993
Yih-Nan Chen	1993 ~ 1999
Yeong-Bin Yang	1999 ~ 2005
Huan-Jang Keh	2005 ~ 2011
Jia-Yush Yen	2011 ~ 2017
Wen-Chang Chen	2017 ~ 2023
Mao-Hsiung Chiang	2023 ~ Present