NCKU, ARTC sign MoU to boost up Taiwan’s automobile industry
Tainan, Taiwan, May 17, 2013
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) and the Automobile Research and Testing Center (ARTC) has signed the “Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Joint Strategic Cooperation,” recently to improve the technology and enhance competitiveness in the automobile industry in Taiwan.
The MoU signing marks the beginning of collaboration between technology and application of scientific research and academic research, thus creating a new chapter for the development of Taiwan’s automobile industry, according to the university.
The signing ceremony was jointly hosted by NCKU President Hwung-Hweng Hwung and ARTC Chairman Hsin-Tai Liu where both signed MoU, May 15.
President Hwung stressed that the final aim of academic research is commercialization in order to create economic value for the benefit of mankind.
“At the early stage of industry-academia collaboration, industries provide schools with money while professors carry out research,” President Hwung said. “However, the products created out of research were always unable to meet industrial requirements, thus this previous collaboration model could not solve the problems faced by industries.”
“In the collaboration between NCKU and Delta Electronics 4 years ago, each side invested 10 million NTD and a research team consisting of NCKU professors and researchers from Delta Electronics was formed to implement research plan,” revealed Hwung while citing an example of industry-academia collaboration involving NCKU.
As good results were observed during the past 4 years of the NCKU-Delta Electronics collaboration, President Hwung predicts that research and development involving automobile technology will show similar good results by using the aforementioned success model on the collaboration with ARTC.
ARTC Chairman Hsin-Tai Liu said, “Everybody knows that basic research at NCKU is the most practical and NCKU has the strongest research and development in academia.”
With the help from NCKU professors alongside the research team at ARTC, Liu believed that the numerous research outcomes can be achieved in the next three years of collaboration between NCKU and ARTC and hoped that excellent talents can be nurtured at the same time as talents are important assets to the industry.
The three-year NCKU-ARTC collaboration plan will begin in 2014, where the joint R&D mechanism will involve creating new vehicles with advanced technology and nurturing talented personnel.
The details of this mechanism include: First, establish a joint strategic collaboration team involved in R&D of vehicles using new advanced technology; second, collaborate and exchange ideas on key technology and innovative advanced technology; third, carry out research collaboration focusing on vehicle electrification and intelligent technology, cumulate the capability of independent R&D and innovative design, mutually sharing technical information and resources; and fourth, organize collaboration and idea exchange between R&D personnel to enhance practical applications and provide students with internship and job opportunities.
The first year of this collaboration will include R&D on wireless charging technology for vehicles and driver monitoring system. In the later years of the collaboration, an interaction platform based on research technology of automobile will be set up to focus on vehicle electrification and intelligent technology with the aim of enhancing cooperation and speeding up research outcomes, thus intensifying the development of Taiwan’s automobile industry.
This collaboration imitates the NCKU-Delta Electronics collaboration model, where both sides contribute investment and research talents to form a joint research team to carry out R&D work on automobile technological innovation.
It is expected that the NCKU-ARTC collaboration model will become a successful example as well as create “industrial type” research outcome by transferring mature technology to the industry, and also create “futuristic” research results.
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National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) and the Automobile Research and Testing Center (ARTC) has signed the “Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Joint Strategic Cooperation,” recently to improve the technology and enhance competitiveness in the automobile industry in Taiwan.
The MoU signing marks the beginning of collaboration between technology and application of scientific research and academic research, thus creating a new chapter for the development of Taiwan’s automobile industry, according to the university.
The signing ceremony was jointly hosted by NCKU President Hwung-Hweng Hwung and ARTC Chairman Hsin-Tai Liu where both signed MoU, May 15.
President Hwung stressed that the final aim of academic research is commercialization in order to create economic value for the benefit of mankind.
“At the early stage of industry-academia collaboration, industries provide schools with money while professors carry out research,” President Hwung said. “However, the products created out of research were always unable to meet industrial requirements, thus this previous collaboration model could not solve the problems faced by industries.”
“In the collaboration between NCKU and Delta Electronics 4 years ago, each side invested 10 million NTD and a research team consisting of NCKU professors and researchers from Delta Electronics was formed to implement research plan,” revealed Hwung while citing an example of industry-academia collaboration involving NCKU.
As good results were observed during the past 4 years of the NCKU-Delta Electronics collaboration, President Hwung predicts that research and development involving automobile technology will show similar good results by using the aforementioned success model on the collaboration with ARTC.
ARTC Chairman Hsin-Tai Liu said, “Everybody knows that basic research at NCKU is the most practical and NCKU has the strongest research and development in academia.”
With the help from NCKU professors alongside the research team at ARTC, Liu believed that the numerous research outcomes can be achieved in the next three years of collaboration between NCKU and ARTC and hoped that excellent talents can be nurtured at the same time as talents are important assets to the industry.
The three-year NCKU-ARTC collaboration plan will begin in 2014, where the joint R&D mechanism will involve creating new vehicles with advanced technology and nurturing talented personnel.
The details of this mechanism include: First, establish a joint strategic collaboration team involved in R&D of vehicles using new advanced technology; second, collaborate and exchange ideas on key technology and innovative advanced technology; third, carry out research collaboration focusing on vehicle electrification and intelligent technology, cumulate the capability of independent R&D and innovative design, mutually sharing technical information and resources; and fourth, organize collaboration and idea exchange between R&D personnel to enhance practical applications and provide students with internship and job opportunities.
The first year of this collaboration will include R&D on wireless charging technology for vehicles and driver monitoring system. In the later years of the collaboration, an interaction platform based on research technology of automobile will be set up to focus on vehicle electrification and intelligent technology with the aim of enhancing cooperation and speeding up research outcomes, thus intensifying the development of Taiwan’s automobile industry.
This collaboration imitates the NCKU-Delta Electronics collaboration model, where both sides contribute investment and research talents to form a joint research team to carry out R&D work on automobile technological innovation.
It is expected that the NCKU-ARTC collaboration model will become a successful example as well as create “industrial type” research outcome by transferring mature technology to the industry, and also create “futuristic” research results.
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