From left, former chancellor of Kun Shan University and independent director of Macronix International Co Su Yen-kun, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Tsou Yu-han, Macronix Chairman and CEO Miin Wu, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) chancellor Jenny Su, Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che, Ministry of Education (MOE) Chief Secretary Chu Nan-hsien, NCKU vice chancellor Wu Cheng-wen and Department of Higher Education Director Chu Chun-chang pose for a photograph at a project initiation ceremony for the Macronix Innovation Center on Aug. 28 As we enter a new era of artificial intelligence (AI), Taiwan needs to focus on the bigger picture, fostering ideas and building environments that will help cultivate the next generation of talented software engineers.   Macronix International Co, a leading global manufacturer of integrated non-volatile memory components, has generously provided National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) with a NT$420 million donation for the construction of the Macronix Innovation Center: a historic new space on campus that will fuse together the energies and talents of Macronix and NCKU.   Macronix hopes that providing a creative space for teaching and research will provide synergies, foster new talent and demonstrate the company's dedication to corporate social responsibility. NCKU believes the facility will encourage new models for teaching and research and is promoting the School of Computing, which will be located within the center, as a "university of the future” that will drive forward innovation and progress.   On Wednesday Macronix held a project initiation ceremony on campus at NCKU to celebrate a new chapter in a rich history of collaboration between Macronix and the university that will maximize resource potential and further the development of humanity. The project initiation ceremony was held at the Da Cheng Building on NCKU's Kuang-Fu campus in Tainan and co-hosted by NCKU chancellor Jenny Su(蘇慧貞) and Macronix Chairman and CEO Miin Wu (吳敏求) to thank Wu, an alumnus of the university, for his generous donation: a model example of a successful company giving back to society.   Wu was the 59th student to graduate from the school's Department of Electrical Engineering and the 62nd to obtain a degree from its Graduate School of Electrical Engineering. Wu founded Macronix Inter- national Co. in 1989. Today the company is a leading global manufacturer of integrated non-volatile memory components. Wu, who in 2016 received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, says his NT$420 million donation is his way of saying thanks and giving back to his university. In her speech, Su thanked Wu for the unstinting and selfless support he has given NCKU.   The Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), which has endorsed the new center, is currently aiming to heighten Taiwan’s global competitiveness by boosting talent cultivation at the country’s academic institutions and increasing talent retention in domestic industries. The Ministry has provided subsidies to 26 professors at NCKU under the new MOST Young Scholar Fellowship, making the school an auspicious location for the innovation center.   In line with the goals of MOST, both NCKU and Macronix are dedicated to promoting industrial innovation and encouraging entrepreneurship and collaboration among Taiwan talented young engineers, developers, and scientists along with the country’s top academic institutions and business leaders.   At NCKU, the Global Research and Industry Alliance (GLORIA) was established to help integrate tech research and development at the university with the international market to spur high growth enterprises. Likewise, Macronix established the Macronix Educational Foundation in 2011 to encourage outstanding technological and scientific achievements among young scholars with annual awards ceremonies.   Su says that, as we enter the AI age, innovative and cross disciplinary ways of thinking are emerging, requiring a radical new approach to education and the cultivation of new talent. The Macronix Innovation Center is addressing this need with the addition of the School of Computing, modeled on the US' Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) College of Computing, to its existing nine schools, to cultivate the talent needed for the future challenges in the world of computing.   According to Professor Shieh Ming-der of the NCKU Department of Electrical Engineering, Al has arrived, and implementing cross-disciplinary applications and developing critical infrastructure technologies are crucial to this endeavor. Skilled talent will be integral to the development of these. The NCKU School of Computing will play a significant role in the cultivation of this talent, to further innovative applications for Al and promote cross-disciplinary approaches. Shieh says that the comprehensive education and learning environment provided by the nine major schools at NCKU are the optimal forum for the development of cross-disciplinary program, and students from different research disciplines will be able to come to the new school to augment their knowledge with a range of different skills. In the future, he says, the NCKU School of Computing will become the nation's first cross-disciplinary school offering a comprehensive program a completely new type of school separate from the university's established nine schools.  

Group photo of the Symposium of Development and Application of Eco-friendly Products for plant health care “The Handbook of Eco-Friendly Products for Plant Health Care”, the first handbook for taking care of agricultural plant published in Taiwan. The group of authors includes 51 experts in such field who explore and compile the topic of discussion regarding products for plant health care and plant medicine from the source of microbe, plant, biochemistry and minerals. The authors of this handbook was convened by Prof. Huang, Jenn-Wen, the vice president of NCHU; and the other authors are also KOL of the field of plant health care, they are from the academic such as National Chung Hsing University, National Taiwan University, I-Lan University, National Formosa University, as well as from the Research Institutes such as TARI, TACTRI, TSIPS, ARES in Taichung District and Miaoli District, Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine. For this reason, the Symposium of Development and Application of Eco-friendly Products for plant health care was held in NCHU on Aug. 8 th , 2019, by 4 organizers including the NCHU-IDCSA Center, NCHU-AEC, Department of Plant Pathology and NCHU GLORIA. During this symposium, 12 authors are invited to give the speeches around topics relating to the plant health and eco-friendly issues. Royalties of this handbook will be donated as NCHU Hsing-Yi scholarship to assist underprivileged students.     The publication of Handbook and the symposium is the very importent event for NCHU, hence, the president prof. Fuh-Sheng Shieu is very considerable and fully supported this event. During his opening remark, he appreciates all the effort and contribution that the author-group provided, and shares their research outcomes and development. Moreover, he also represents his great thanks for their donation. The other issue needs to be noted during this event is that the policy of Council of Agriculture announced that in 2018, the half-reduction of the use of chemical pesticide would be carried out within 10 years. This policy encourages scientists to research and develop the substitution of Bio-control farm material, and recall the awareness of protecting environment is every citizen’s responsibility. To coordinating this policy, NCHU as the agricultural major educational institute, we regard ourselves responsible to put much more effort on promoting the non-toxic agriculture concept theoretically or practically. In the nearly future, training courses will also be held in succession to teach farmers systematically how to plant non-toxic agriculture and achieve sustainable development of agriculture.         Huang, Jenn-wen, vice president of National Chung Hsiung University, the editor of this handbook also pointed out that NCHU is one of the first universities in Taiwan dedicating in the research and development of microbial plant protection preparations. Many alumni in the whole Taiwan have invested in the research and development of plant protection materials in a friendly environment. This handbook has been written and edited for 9 months, which is conducive to the comprehensive development of Taiwan's environmentally friendly plant health technology and materials development, helping to encourage more scientific researchers to join the field to develop the latest technology and application method. Therefore, it is also expected that agricultural-related businesses will also be able to maintain the safety of agricultural products and the sustainable development of planting environment.  

FANG,JU-YING, the master of Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology studies on the pathogenic mechanism of Citrus Exocortis virus won the first prize of this year CH Biotech and the College of Bioresources and Agriculture, National Taiwan University and NTUILO jointly held the award ceremony of the first “2019 CH BioTech Innovation Award", FANG,JU-YING, the master of Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology studies on the pathogenic mechanism of Citrus Exocortis virus won the first prize of this year and won a scholarship of NT$200,000 to create the highest individual scholarship in Taiwan's agricultural biotechnology field. CH Biotech was established in Taiwan for nearly six years. In June 2018, the global R&D center was launched with an investment amount of NT$2 billion, setting a new record for investment in Taiwan's private agricultural biotechnology field. Currently, the company has more than 50% of human resources on R&D. The R&D department is composed of Taiwan-trained, internationally experienced doctors and masters, focusing on developing globally unique and innovative formulas for agricultural materials. CH Biotech continues to develop its international market in United States, Canada, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Australia, etc. CH Biotech is positioned as a “R&D” enterprise and puts a lot s of efforts to promote innovation in Taiwan academia. At the beginning of this year, CH Biotech jointly launched the first "CH Biotech Innovation Award" with College of Bioresources and Agriculture, National Taiwan University to encourage innovation of agricultural biotechnology in academic, so as to deepen basic science and explore new ideas for solving today's agricultural problems. Chiou, Chyou-Huey, Director of Department of Academia-Industry Collaboration and Science Park Affairs Ministry of Science and Technology, MOST, thanked CH BioTech for organizing this scholarship activity and set a record for the highest scholarship. In addition, he pointed out that it is accurate choice to CH BioTech. First of all, the output value of agricultural biotechnology in the world is about 47 billion US dollars, a truly multi-billions industry. Taiwan itself contains outstanding achievement in this field and the build-up of agricultural biotechnology will definitely bring new output value to the agricultural industry. The second one is its sharpness toward talents policy. The Ministry of Science and Technology has recently made efforts to promote industry-academia cooperation, and the award from CH Biotech does correspond with government’s direction, rewarding students to cultivate talents in the biotechnological field, creating outstanding contributions to industrial competence. Chiou, Chyou-Huey, Director of Department of Academia-Industry Collaboration and Science Park Affairs Ministry of Science and Technology, MOST speech   Ching-Hua Lo, Executive Vice President, NTU, first expressed his congratulations and blessings to the award-winning students and introduced the College of Bioresources and Agriculture, as the foundation of the National Taiwan University at very beginning. He also pointed out that nowadays the earth has faced critical climate change which becomes a biggest challenge on humankind, and has imposed great impacts on food supply chain. To respond to this global challenge, Dean Professor Lur is currently organizing a demonstration on “smart agriculture”, collaborating energies and endeavors from College of Bioresources and Agriculture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University and College of Medicine. Ching-Hua Lo, Executive Vice President, NTU speech   Wu Chenpang, Chairman of CH Biotech, said that due to these positive experiences with National Taiwan University Agricultural College, they plan to expand the scale of this award next year, from the National Taiwan University Agricultural College to the national-wide agricultural technology field. It is expected that the prize will reach a million NTD in next year. Wu Chenpang, Chairman of CH Biotech speech   Prof. Huu-Sheng Lur, dean of College of Bioresources and Agriculture, also said that although Taiwan's agricultural biotechnology contain abundant energy in research and development, the long-term lack of co-work from leading enterprises and academic, indirectly affecting students' willingness to apply for doctoral degree. He is thus looking forward to more companies conducting the positive cycle of Taiwan's agricultural biotechnology research and development. In this term, companies can also find new technologies and eligible talents, and can form win-win situation within enterprises, universities, and students. Prof. Huu-Sheng Lur, dean of College of Bioresources and Agriculture speech  

GLORIA CYCU sent the SMC CYCU representatives to participate at the “Intelligent Asia Exhibition“ with AMCT Global Research & Industry Alliance, CYCU (GLORIA CYCU) sent the R&D Center for Smart Manufacturing, CYCU (SMC CYCU) representatives to participate in the “Intelligent Asia: Industry 4.0 and Smart-Manufacturing Series Exhibition in Asia“ with the Association of CAE Molding Technology (AMCT). “ Intelligent Asia” was held at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center I & II from 21st Aug to 24th Aug, 2019. A total of more than 1,000 manufacturers participated in the exhibition, shows the demands for solutions and applications for Smart Manufacturing in different fields have increased year by year in Taiwan. GLORIA CYCU promotes Taiwan in the field of Injection Molding in the transformation and upgrading, SMC CYCU proposed the corresponding solutions for Intelligent Injection Molding and Advanced Molding. Hence, SMC CYCU published “Solution for Cloud Intelligent-Molding Manufacturing” and ”Gas Counter Pressure Applied to Injection Molding” in the ” Intelligent Asia” exhibition Traditional industry is destined to transform in the upcoming generation which is lack of manpower. The unmanned-automatic AI injection molding will be realized, while shortening the trial-testing process, increasing the production yield and stabilizing the mass production at the same time through the integration of modules in the “Solution for Cloud Intelligent-Molding Manufacturing”. Along with the development trend of plastic lightweight, Supercritical Fluid Foaming is the most important green energy technology for plastic lightweight in this century; however, this technology is accompanied by the problem of surface quality and cell uniformity. Therefore, “Gas Counter Pressure Applied to Injection Molding” was demonstrated during the exhibition; through this Gas Counter Pressure Technology developed by SMC CYCU can effectively improve the technical bottleneck for Supercritical Fluid Foaming. In Addition, this technology has also achieved good results for metal and ceramic powder materials. SMC CYCU cooperated with AMCT to hold a Joint Technical Seminar during the exhibition as well, which attracted many domestic and foreign manufacturers and get a warm response. The topics including “Mold Design & Manufacturing Technology”, “Industry 4.0”, “Mold IoT”, “Integration for Automation”, “High-level Mold intelligent Manufacturing”, and “Metal 3D-Printing Technology Applied in the Mold Industry. “ at this Seminar, which helps manufacturers understand the latest position and trends in the molding industry and upgrade the factories to another grad. In the future, GLORIA CYCU and SMC CYCU will further cooperate with AMCT to promote the recruitment of joint members and provide a full range of services for the mold industry. Dr. John Chang from SMC CYCU introduced the “Solution for Cloud Intelligent-Molding Manufacturing” which was developed by SMC CYCU to the visitors at “Intelligent Asia Exhibition“ Dr. Tsai from SMC CYCU explained the “Gas Counter Pressure Applied to Injection Molding” for the Joint Technical Seminar at “Intelligent Asia Exhibition“  

Group photo of the Symposium of Development and Application of Eco-friendly Products for plant health care “The Handbook of Eco-Friendly Products for Plant Health Care”, the first handbook for taking care of agricultural plant published in Taiwan. The group of authors includes 51 experts in such field who explore and compile the topic of discussion regarding products for plant health care and plant medicine from the source of microbe, plant, biochemistry and minerals. The authors of this handbook was convened by Prof. Huang, Jenn-Wen, the vice president of NCHU; and the other authors are also KOL of the field of plant health care, they are from the academic such as National Chung Hsing University, National Taiwan University, I-Lan University, National Formosa University, as well as from the Research Institutes such as TARI, TACTRI, TSIPS, ARES in Taichung District and Miaoli District, Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine. For this reason, the Symposium of Development and Application of Eco-friendly Products for plant health care was held in NCHU on Aug. 8 th , 2019, by 4 organizers including the NCHU-IDCSA Center, NCHU-AEC, Department of Plant Pathology and NCHU GLORIA. During this symposium, 12 authors are invited to give the speeches around topics relating to the plant health and eco-friendly issues. Royalties of this handbook will be donated as NCHU Hsing-Yi scholarship to assist underprivileged students.     The publication of Handbook and the symposium is the very importent event for NCHU, hence, the president prof. Fuh-Sheng Shieu is very considerable and fully supported this event. During his opening remark, he appreciates all the effort and contribution that the author-group provided, and shares their research outcomes and development. Moreover, he also represents his great thanks for their donation. The other issue needs to be noted during this event is that the policy of Council of Agriculture announced that in 2018, the half-reduction of the use of chemical pesticide would be carried out within 10 years. This policy encourages scientists to research and develop the substitution of Bio-control farm material, and recall the awareness of protecting environment is every citizen’s responsibility. To coordinating this policy, NCHU as the agricultural major educational institute, we regard ourselves responsible to put much more effort on promoting the non-toxic agriculture concept theoretically or practically. In the nearly future, training courses will also be held in succession to teach farmers systematically how to plant non-toxic agriculture and achieve sustainable development of agriculture.         Huang, Jenn-wen, vice president of National Chung Hsiung University, the editor of this handbook also pointed out that NCHU is one of the first universities in Taiwan dedicating in the research and development of microbial plant protection preparations. Many alumni in the whole Taiwan have invested in the research and development of plant protection materials in a friendly environment. This handbook has been written and edited for 9 months, which is conducive to the comprehensive development of Taiwan's environmentally friendly plant health technology and materials development, helping to encourage more scientific researchers to join the field to develop the latest technology and application method. Therefore, it is also expected that agricultural-related businesses will also be able to maintain the safety of agricultural products and the sustainable development of planting environment.