YunTech aims to cultivate “future employment functions,” foster future competitiveness education, and use practice to lead theoretical learning to achieve its vision of becoming a new type of University of Science and Technology in 2022. The school has established centers in various professional fields through industry-academia R&D potential classification, master-apprentice family operation, new pattern workforce cultivation, and innovation and entrepreneurship guidance. Since 2018, YunTech has achieved its pragmatic practice objective by establishing 27 PBL research centers.

From 2019 to 2021, YunTech has undertaken 1,177 industry-academia planning projects entrusted by private enterprises and other firms, cooperation, and schools, reaching NT$439.33 million. Moreover, the school has formed an industrial college to engage with the industry and coordinate each college’s talents and technology centers. These accomplishments have provided education and training for enterprise development courses, bolstered enterprise R&D momentum, developed the region’s needs for industrial talents, contributed to economic development, and increased employment.

YunTech aims to lead practical technical research in academia by developing the students’ technical and professional skills and improving their professional skills. Students can create project-based “PBL Industry Practice Courses” for their project families to solve practical industrial problems through problem-oriented, interest-oriented, and teamwork-guided education.

Among them, the “Intelligent & Local Design Service Center” and the “Intelligent Recognition Industry Service Research Center (IRIS)” were also selected among the top ten specialty field research centers of the Ministry of Education’s higher education intensive cultivation program called Global Taiwan.
The “Intelligent & Local Design Service Center” focuses on interdisciplinary integration development, with technology management as the core and smart urban and rural areas as the research foundation. The main service subjects are enterprises and governments, with school buildings, local industries, and urban and rural communities as the core areas.

The “Intelligent Recognition Industry Service Research Center (IRIS)” focuses on smart key technology identification and smart medical imaging-aided diagnosis technologies. The goal is to cooperate with the Industrial Technology Research Institute, Institute for Information Industry, China Steel Corporation, Cheng Shin Tyre, Unicharm, National Taiwan University, National Cheng Kung University, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, and Tzu Chi Hospital to promote socio-economic development, health, and wellbeing in the community.

Every year, the Office of Industry-Academia holds unscheduled PBL center exchange seminars to allow PBL research centers to share and exchange technology and industry-academia achievements to promote horizontal integration and interdisciplinary cooperation.

Tsung Cho-Chang Education Foundation Subsidy Program

Although the global economic climate has changed rapidly in recent years, there are still many entrepreneurs with the spirit of practicality and perseverance striving to create innovative models. YunTech’s president has charged teachers and students with assisting enterprises in transforming and promoting industrial upgrading. YunTech received support and donations from the “Tsung Cho-Chang Education Foundation” in 2019 and developed the “industry-academia cooperation combined with social welfare” model to support industry-academia cooperation between SMEs and our school. From fund subsidies to cultivating students and exposing them to practical issues, our efforts have strengthened enterprise competitiveness and epitomized the “Tsung Cho-Chang Education Foundation’s” public welfare spirit. We have created an exemplary partnership model between universities and social welfare foundations. The following are the subsidy details for 2019 to 2021:

YunTech has invested public welfare industry-academia funds since 2021 to encourage teachers to integrate industry-academia cooperation projects into course teaching, continue to inspire teachers of industry-academia-related courses to present concrete results of industry-academia collaboration, conform to the SDGs’ public welfare spirit, and support various industry-academia cooperation projects that can be implemented in industrial development and social services. The goal is to combine industry-academia cooperation with student learning and curriculum practice promotion and display physical achievements to achieve the solid teaching & research foundation objective while strengthening industry connections. The subsidy details are as follows: