A delegation from Taiwan's National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), led by President Chi-Hung Lin, visited Tokyo Tech on June 24.
The group were welcomed on Ookayama Campus by Tokyo Tech President Kazuya Masu, Provost and Executive Vice President for Institute Strategy Isao Satoh, Professor Hitoshi Wakabayashi from Tokyo Tech's Institute of Innovative Research, and Senior Aide to the Executive Vice President for Institute Strategy Noriko Ito.
President Masu (5th from left) with NYCU President Lin (center) and other Tokyo Tech and NYCU members
NYCU was established in February 2021 as a result of a merger between the engineering-focused National Chiao Tung University and National Yang Ming University, a university known for its strengths in medicine. Tokyo Tech concluded an Institute-wide agreement with the former in 2004, and educational and research exchanges have continued since then. Today, the Institute's School of Engineering and NYCU's International College of Semiconductor Technology offer students a dual degree program.
During the discussions in June, representatives of NYCU shared stories about their progress in the past three and a half years since their historic merger. Counterparts from the Tokyo Tech side also shared recent developments, including information about the merger with Tokyo Medical and Dental University, and the planned establishment of Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo) in October 2024.
President Lin and his NYCU colleagues emphasized the efforts required during the first two years after the merger to deepen mutual understanding while valuing consensus among members of the integrating universities. They also spoke about the development of new fields by combining their respective strengths, and the challenge of creating completely new fields in the future.
The meeting offered an excellent opportunity for both Tokyo Tech and NYCU, which share a vision of deeper collaboration between the engineering and medical fields, to plan and strengthen cooperation, now and in the future.
