National Chinyi University of Technology

National Chin-Yi University of Technology, also written National Chin-Yi and abbreviated NCUT, is a public technological university in Taiping District, Taichung, Taiwan, founded in 1971 as a private junior college by the retired army major general Chang Ming and his wife Wang Kuo-hsiu.国立勤益科技大学（英文亦作 National Chin-Yi University of Technology，简称勤益科大、NCUT）是位于台湾台中市太平区的一所公立科技大学，1971 年由退役陆军少将张明与夫人王国秀以私立专科学校的形式创办。

The school was built on the site of a former Japanese airfield after the founders bought a lychee orchard from a local farmer, and it began with four departments teaching mechanical, electrical, electronic and chemical technology to senior vocational school graduates.校地原为日本时代的飞机场旧址，创办人向当地果农买下荔枝园后建校，最初设机械、电工、工业电子与工业化学四科，招收高中与高职毕业生。

It became a national institution in 1992 when the founders gave the school and its assets to the government, was upgraded to a university of technology on 1 February 2007, and was placed in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.1992 年创办人将学校与校产捐给政府，学校由此改隶国立；2007 年 2 月 1 日正式改制为科技大学，并在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列入 1401+ 区间。

History

• Chang Ming, a retired major general of the Republic of China Army, and his wife Wang Kuo-hsiu opened the Private Chin-Yi Industrial Vocational Junior College in 1971 with four two-year departments and a founding class drawn from senior high and vocational graduates.中华民国陆军退役少将张明与夫人王国秀于 1971 年创办私立勤益工业技艺专科学校，设四个二年制科目，首批学生来自高中与高职毕业生。
• The founders named the school after the village of Chin-Yi where it stood, and the first campus occupied flat ground beside the foothills east of Taichung city.创办人以校址所在的勤益里为学校命名，最初的校园位于台中市东侧丘陵旁的平坦地带。
• In 1973 the school was renamed Private Chin-Yi Industrial Junior College, its four subjects became departments of mechanical, electrical, electronic and chemical engineering, and industrial management was added as a fifth.1973 年学校改名为私立勤益工业专科学校，原有四科改为机械、电机、电子与化学工程四科，并增设工业管理科。
• Departments were further divided in 1980, when mechanical engineering split into manufacturing and design groups, electrical engineering into electrical and refrigeration groups, and electronics into applied electronics and digital systems.1980 年各科进一步分组：机械工程科分制造组与设计组，电机工程科分电工组与冷冻组，电子工程科分应用电子组与数字系统组。
• An evening division opened in 1982 for working technicians in electronics and electrical engineering, was extended to mechanical engineering in 1983 and added an automation control group in 1985.1982 年设立夜间部，先招收电子与电机工程科在职技术人员，1983 年扩展到机械工程科，1985 年又增设自动化控制组。
• In 1987 the founders, whose school held assets worth about 400 million New Taiwan dollars, wrote to Education Minister Mao Gao-wen offering to give the institution to the state on condition that the name Chin-Yi be kept.1987 年，拥有约新台币 4 亿元校产的创办人致函教育部长毛高文，表示愿将学校无条件捐给国家，只要求保留「勤益」校名。
• The donation took effect on 1 July 1992, when the school became the National Chin-Yi Industrial and Commercial Junior College under the Ministry of Education, ending twenty-one years of private ownership.捐校于 1992 年 7 月 1 日生效，学校改隶教育部，成为国立勤益工商专科学校，结束了 21 年的私立办学。
• Business administration was added in 1989, information management in 1994, and refrigeration and air conditioning became a separate department in 1998 alongside a new department of distribution management.企业管理科于 1989 年设立，信息管理科于 1994 年设立，冷冻空调组则于 1998 年独立成科，同年还新增流通管理科。
• The institute was upgraded to the National Chin-Yi Institute of Technology on 1 July 1999, when its evening division became a division of continuing and extension education and landscape design and management was added.1999 年 7 月 1 日，学校升格为国立勤益技术学院，夜间部改组为进修推广部，同时增设景观设计与管理科。
• Four-year bachelor programmes began with the electronics department in 2000, and the institute opened an affiliated college of continuing education in the same year.四年制学士班自 2000 年由电子工程系开始招收，学院同年设立附设进修学院。
• The first graduate programme, the Institute of Production Systems Engineering and Management, was established in 2002, turning a teaching college into an institution that awarded master's degrees.2002 年设立第一个研究所——生产系统工程与管理研究所，使这所以教学为主的学院开始授予硕士学位。
• Three more master's programmes followed in 2003 in materials and chemical engineering, distribution technology management, and information and electrical energy technology, and all departments began admitting four-year students.2003 年又增设材料与化学工程、流通科技管理、信息与电能科技三个硕士班，各系并全面招收四年制学生。
• In 2004 the institute added master's programmes in precision machinery and manufacturing, refrigeration and energy, and business management, together with departments of applied English and leisure sport management.2004 年增设精密机械与制造、冷冻空调与能源、企业管理三个硕士班，并成立应用英语系与休闲运动管理系。
• A department of information engineering was created in 2005 and the chemical engineering department was renamed chemical and materials engineering, reflecting the shift of Taiwanese industry toward semiconductors and advanced materials.2005 年成立信息工程系，化学工程系改名为化工与材料工程系，呼应台湾产业向半导体与先进材料转型。
• In August 2006 the Ministry of Education approved a preparatory office for a Taichung university of technology, and in November its vocational education review committee passed the upgrade, which took effect on 1 February 2007.2006 年 8 月教育部核定成立台中勤益科技大学筹备处，同年 11 月技职校院变更审议委员会通过升格案，并于 2007 年 2 月 1 日生效。
• On 10 June 2007 the university obtained the title deed to the adjacent Pinglin military camp, the land acquisition that allowed its campus to expand eastward.2007 年 6 月 10 日，学校取得毗邻的陆军坪林营区土地所有权状，这次征地使校园得以向东扩展。
• The same year brought a master's programme in research and technology management and a bachelor's programme in cultural enterprise development, widening the curriculum beyond engineering.同年学校新设研发与科技管理硕士班以及文化事业发展系大学部，使课程范围超出工程领域。
• In June 2009 the university was chosen as a green university demonstration school by the Ministry of Education and signed the Talloires Declaration on sustainability in higher education.2009 年 6 月，学校获教育部选为绿色大学示范学校，并签署高等教育可持续发展《塔乐礼宣言》。
• On 31 May 2010 the Ministry of National Defense handed over 20 hectares of the Pinglin camp, and in August the general education centre was raised to college status with a residential Mingxiu College attached.2010 年 5 月 31 日，国防部完成坪林营区 20 公顷土地的点交；同年 8 月通识教育中心升格为学院，并附设住宿型明秀书院。
• A new main gate opened on 12 April 2011, the old lane entrance was converted into a pedestrian and cycle path, and the university launched its first doctoral programme in precision manufacturing that August.2011 年 4 月 12 日启用新校门，原 215 巷校门改为行人与自行车专用道；同年 8 月开设精密制造科技研究所博士班。
• Meiji-era plans to merge the institute into a proposed National Taichung University were discussed in 1997 and revived in 2002, but the project lapsed and the neighbouring teachers college became National Taichung University of Education in 2005.1997 年曾提议将勤益并入拟设的国立台中大学，2002 年旧案重提，最终搁置；邻近的台中师范学院则于 2005 年独立升格为国立台中教育大学。
• A 2011 merger that created the National Taichung University of Science and Technology left Chin-Yi independent, and the university instead pursued its own upgrade to a full technological university.2011 年台中技术学院与台中护专合并为国立台中科技大学，勤益并未参与，转而自行推进科技大学建设。
• Chen Wen-yuan became president on 1 February 2017, and under him the Machine Tool College building opened in 2018, the Chin-Yi startup base in 2019 and new departments in smart automation and artificial intelligence in 2022.陈文渊于 2017 年 2 月 1 日就任校长，任内工具机学院大楼于 2018 年落成、勤创基地于 2019 年启用，2022 年又新设智慧自动化工程系与人工智能应用工程系。

Academics

• The university is organised into five colleges: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Engineering, Management, Humanities and Creativity, and General Education, the last of these elevated from a centre in 2010.学校设五个学院：电资学院、工程学院、管理学院、人文创意学院与通识教育学院，其中通识学院由 2010 年升格的中心改制而成。
• It teaches 16 departments, covering mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronic engineering, chemical and materials engineering, industrial engineering and management and information management.全校共设 16 个系，涵盖机械工程、电机工程、电子工程、化工与材料工程、工业工程与管理以及信息管理等领域。
• The remaining departments are distribution management, business administration, landscape architecture, refrigeration, air conditioning and energy engineering, cultural and creative industries, leisure industry management and applied English.其余科系包括流通管理、企业管理、景观、冷冻空调与能源工程、文化创意事业、休闲产业管理与应用英语。
• Information engineering, automation engineering, smart automation engineering and artificial intelligence application engineering complete the departmental list, with the last two created in 2022.信息工程、自动化工程、智慧自动化工程与人工智能应用工程构成其余系所，其中后两个于 2022 年新设。
• Master's programmes run in production systems engineering and management, materials and chemical engineering, distribution technology management, information and electrical energy technology and precision machinery and manufacturing.硕士班涵盖生产系统工程与管理、材料与化学工程、流通科技管理、信息与电能科技以及精密机械与制造等方向。
• Further master's degrees are offered in refrigeration and energy technology, business management, research and technology management, project management and smart manufacturing with information applications.另设有冷冻空调与能源科技、企业管理、研发与科技管理、项目管理以及智慧制造与信息应用等硕士班。
• The doctoral programme in precision manufacturing, launched in 2011, is the university's highest degree and supports its machine tool and precision machinery research.2011 年设立的精密制造博士班是该校最高学位项目，支撑其工具机与精密机械研究。
• The College of General Education houses Mingxiu College, a science education centre and a Japan research centre, and it runs the university's compulsory liberal arts curriculum.通识教育学院下设明秀书院、科普教育中心与日本研究中心，并负责全校必修通识课程。
• A language centre created in 2010 as a first-level administrative unit coordinates English instruction, including the streaming of first-year students by proficiency.2010 年设立的语言中心为一级行政单位，统筹英语教学，包括对一年级学生实施分级授课。
• The university was selected in 2012 for the Ministry of Education's teaching excellence programme and in 2013 for its model technological university scheme, both of which brought extra funding.学校于 2012 年入选教育部奖励大学教学卓越计划，2013 年又获选为发展典范科技大学，两项计划都带来额外经费。
• Its green technology research centre, opened with the Innovation and Research building in December 2010, works on energy saving, refrigeration and environmental engineering.2010 年 12 月与创新研发大楼同时揭牌的绿色科技研发总中心，从事节能、冷冻空调与环境工程研究。
• The Smart Taichung Maker Base, opened in October 2018 on the fourth floor of the Machine Tool College building, provides eight workshop zones and nearly one hundred machines and instruments.2018 年 10 月在工具机学院大楼四楼启用的「智慧台中创客基地」设有八大区域与近百套设备仪器。
• Those zones include metalwork, electrical work, 3D printing, laser engraving, woodwork and small CNC turning and milling, which students use for course projects and competitions.这些区域包括金工、电工、3D 打印、雷射雕刻、木工以及小型数控车铣，供学生完成课程项目与参赛作品。
• The university belongs to the National University System of Taiwan, a alliance of national universities that shares courses, library resources and research facilities.学校是「台湾国立大学系统」成员，该系统由多所国立大学组成，共享课程、图书馆资源与研究设施。
• An affiliated college of continuing education, created in 2000, and the extension division run evening degree courses and short vocational programmes for adults across Taichung.2000 年设立的附设进修学院与推广部，为台中各地成人开设夜间学位课程与短期职业培训。
• Teaching emphasises applied engineering: the machine tool college building of 2018 was funded to train engineers for Taiwan's machine tool industry, centred on Taichung.教学强调应用工程：2018 年落成的工具机学院大楼即以培养台湾工具机产业所需工程师为目标，而该产业正以台中为重心。
• Graduate enrolment remains small relative to the undergraduate body, and most master's students work on applied projects with local manufacturers rather than on basic research.研究生规模相对本科生仍然较小，多数硕士生与本地制造商合作从事应用型项目，而非基础研究。

Campus

• The campus lies in Taiping District on the eastern edge of Taichung, between the city's built-up area and the foothills that rise toward the Central Mountain Range.校园位于台中市东缘的太平区，介于城市建成区与向中央山脉抬升的丘陵之间。
• The site was a Japanese military airfield during the colonial period, and the founders built the first classrooms on land bought from a lychee farmer after 1971.校地在日据时期曾是军用飞机场，创办人于 1971 年后向荔枝农购地，并在其上建起首批教室。
• The Pinglin camp transfer of 2010 added 20 hectares to the campus, giving the university room for laboratories, playing fields and new academic buildings.2010 年坪林营区完成移交，为校园增加 20 公顷土地，使学校有空间建设实验室、运动场与新教学大楼。
• The new main gate of April 2011 faces the expanded campus, while the old 215 lane entrance became a path reserved for pedestrians and cyclists.2011 年 4 月启用的大校门面向扩建后的校园，原 215 巷入口则改为行人及自行车专用道。
• The Innovation and Research Building, unveiled on 14 December 2010, houses the green technology centre and laboratories for the engineering and electrical colleges.2010 年 12 月 14 日揭牌的创新研发大楼内设绿色科技中心以及工程与电资学院的实验室。
• The Machine Tool College building, completed in 2018, is the university's flagship teaching and research building and contains the maker base on its fourth floor.2018 年落成的工具机学院大楼是该校标志性教学研究建筑，四楼即为创客基地。
• Mingxiu College, established in 2010 as a residential learning college, houses students in dormitories where general education activities and faculty mentoring take place.明秀书院成立于 2010 年，是住宿型学习书院，学生在宿舍区内参与通识活动与教师辅导。
• The Chin-Yi startup base, opened in 2019, provides office and prototyping space for student and alumni ventures spun out of engineering projects.2019 年启用的勤创基地为源自工程项目的学生与校友创业团队提供办公与原型制作空间。
• The campus is reached by road from central Taichung in about half an hour, and its Taiping setting places it near the machine tool and hand tool factories of the Taichung industrial belt.校园距台中市中心约半小时车程，太平区的位置使其邻近台中工业带的工具机与手工具工厂。

Reputation

• QS placed National Chin-Yi University of Technology in the 1401+ band of its World University Rankings 2027, the open-ended final group of that edition.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，国立勤益科技大学被列入 1401+ 区间，即该版榜单最后的开放区间。
• The university did not enter the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, was not included in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global list and did not appear in the 2026 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，未列入 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球榜单，也未出现在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中。
• In the 2013 QS Asia ranking it was placed 27th among Taiwanese universities, then its strongest showing in an international table.在 2013 年 QS 亚洲大学排名中，该校在台湾高校中位列第 27，这是其在国际榜单上的最佳表现。
• The university led all national technological universities in Taiwan in patent applications in 2013, a result it cites as evidence of applied research strength.2013 年该校专利申请量在台湾国立科技大学中排名第一，校方以此作为应用研究实力的佐证。
• In the 2013 Cheers survey of employers' favourite graduates, Chin-Yi ranked sixth among national technological universities.在 2013 年《Cheers》杂志「企业最爱大学生」调查中，勤益在国立科技大学中排名第六。
• The Ministry of Education selected it as a model technological university in 2013, a designation reserved for institutions training advanced technical manpower.教育部于 2013 年将其选为「发展典范科技大学」，该称号专用于培养高等技术人才的院校。
• Its 2009 selection as a green university demonstration school and its signing of the Talloires Declaration gave it a national profile in campus sustainability.2009 年获选绿色大学示范学校并签署《塔乐礼宣言》，使该校在校园可持续发展领域获得全台关注。
• The institution's unusual history, a privately founded college given to the state in 1992 for one New Taiwan dollar symbolic consideration, is frequently cited in accounts of Taiwanese private higher education.该校由私人创办、1992 年以象征性代价捐给国家的特殊历程，常被引述为台湾私立高等教育的案例。
• Its reputation rests on vocational and applied engineering teaching rather than on research rankings, and its graduates supply the machine tool, refrigeration and electrical contracting industries of central Taiwan.其声誉建立在技职与应用工程教学而非科研排名之上，毕业生多进入台湾中部的工具机、冷冻空调与电机工程行业。

Student life

• The motto is composed of four characters, chin, yi, cheng and pu, meaning diligence, perseverance, sincerity and simplicity, and it is repeated in the school song.校训为「勤毅诚朴」四字，分别指勤勉、坚毅、诚信与朴实，校歌中也反复吟唱这四字。
• The founders' dictum, "education is nothing but example", is inscribed on campus and expresses the school's emphasis on teachers as models rather than on formal rules.创办人的名言「教育无他，榜样而已」铭刻于校园，表达学校重视教师身教而非形式规章的取向。
• The school song opens with the lines "chin yi, chin yi, diligence brings achievement, humility brings benefit", a couplet drawn from the classical Book of Changes.校歌以「勤益勤益，勤有功，谦受益」开篇，此句出自《易经》。
• Mingxiu College runs a residential learning experiment begun in 2013, in which students live in themed floors and take part in general education activities outside class hours.明秀书院自 2013 年起推行住宿学习实验，学生按主题分层住宿，并在课外参与通识活动。
• The maker base functions as an extracurricular workshop where students build competition robots, model aircraft and prototype machine tools outside their formal courses.创客基地在正式课程之外充当课外工坊，学生在此制作竞赛机器人、模型飞机与工具机原型。
• The university's extension division has run the Tun District community college in Taichung since 2002, opening its classrooms to adult learners from the surrounding districts.学校推广部自 2002 年起承办台中县屯区社区大学，向周边乡镇的成人学习者开放课堂。
• Evening and continuing education students remain a distinctive part of the institution, a legacy of the night division opened in 1982 for working technicians.夜间部与进修教育学生仍是该校的特色群体，这一传统可追溯到 1982 年为在职技术人员设立的夜间部。
• Because most students come from Taichung and the surrounding counties, campus life is closely tied to local industry, with internships arranged at nearby factories and engineering firms.由于多数学生来自台中及周边县市，校园生活与本地产业紧密相连，学校在附近工厂与工程公司安排实习。

Notable people

• Chang Ming, a retired major general of the Republic of China Army, founded the school in 1971 with his own funds and led it until the donation to the state in 1992.中华民国陆军退役少将张明于 1971 年自筹资金创办该校，并主持校务直至 1992 年捐校给国家。
• Wang Kuo-hsiu, Chang Ming's wife and co-founder, took charge of the school's internal administration and continued to serve as a school representative after nationalisation.王国秀是张明的夫人与共同创办人，负责学校内部行政，并在改隶国立后继续担任学校代表。
• In 1992 and again in 2005 the two founders received commendations from Presidents Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian for their contribution to education.1992 年与 2005 年，两位创办人先后获总统李登辉与陈水扁颁发褒扬令，表彰其兴学贡献。
• Mao Gao-wen, then minister of education, received the founders' 1987 letter offering the school to the state and set in motion the process that made it national in 1992.时任教育部长毛高文接到创办人 1987 年表示愿捐校的信函，并推动了使学校于 1992 年改隶国立的程序。
• Chen Kun-sheng became the fourth president in February 2006 and was reappointed for a fifth term in February 2009, presiding over the upgrade to university status.陈坤盛于 2006 年 2 月就任第四任校长，2009 年 2 月续任第五任，任内完成升格科技大学的改制。
• Chao Min-hsun took office as president on 1 February 2013, the year the university was named a model technological university and entered the QS Asia ranking.赵敏勋于 2013 年 2 月 1 日就任校长，同年学校获选为典范科技大学并进入 QS 亚洲排名。
• Chen Wen-yuan became president on 1 February 2017 and oversaw the Machine Tool College building, the maker base and the creation of artificial intelligence departments.陈文渊于 2017 年 2 月 1 日就任校长，任内建成工具机学院大楼与创客基地，并创设人工智能相关科系。
• Chiang Lien-fu, a former member of the Legislative Yuan from Taichung County, is listed among the university's notable alumni from its junior college years.曾任台中县立法委员的江连福，被列为该校专科时期的重要校友之一。
• The founders' families remain connected to the university through the founder's office, which handles alumni liaison and preserves the school's early records.创办人家族通过校内的创办人办公室与学校保持联系，该办公室负责校友联络并保存学校早期档案。
• Faculty in the machine tool and precision manufacturing programmes worked with Taichung manufacturers to develop the doctoral programme approved in 2011, linking academic staff directly to local industry.工具机与精密制造项目的教师与台中制造商合作，推动了 2011 年获批的博士班，使教研人员与本地产业直接对接。