NCKU and Polytechnic to Initiate Talk on Cooperation
Michelle, Press Office
Oct. 28
Dr. David C. Chang, Chancellor of Polytechnic Institute of New York University in Brooklyn, New York, was invited to visit the National Cheng Kung University. He was scheduled to meet with Academician Michael M.C. Lai, the President of NCKU, to exchange their opinions on higher education.
President Lai pointed out that one of his missions during his presidency in NCKU is to recruit more experts and researchers with expertise, especially world-renowned professors to teach in NCKU. Dr. Chang showed great interests to set up an institute of Polytechnic Institute of New York University in Asia, which will be good news to Taiwanese students.
Dr. Chang applauded President Lai’s perspectives and indicated that the school disciplines and alumni of NCKU can play vital roles in recruiting excellent teachers, which can provide proper guidance for students in choosing good research topics.
Dr. Chang also welcomed President Lai’s visit to Polytechnic Institute of New York University in the coming future. President Lai said that conducting cross-disciplinary research is much easier in NCKU because of its integrated and closely interlinked campuses. “NCKU started out as an engineering school and foster leadership with spirit of humanism to meet the requirement of qualified manpower in the 21st century,” said President Lai.
Dr. Chang stressed that the current curriculum of engineering should be re-organized in the perspective of liberal arts because of increasing interdisciplinary researches for the future research trend. He said that, in Polytechnic Institute of New York University, the most conspicuous cooperation could be found in between colleges of medicine and engineering
President Lai acknowledged that NCKU should make efforts to enhance the English proficiency as well as to attract more intelligent and excellent students to study in NCKU.
Dr. Chang was also invited as a speaker for R&D Forum, titled “Globalization and Its Curriculum Implications in Higher Education.”
About Dr. David C. Chang
Dr. David C. Chang, an internationally renowned scholar in the field of electromagnetics, has been the Chancellor of Polytechnic University (now Polytechnic Institute of New York University) in Brooklyn, New York since 2005 after serving as the President of the same university for eleven years.
Prior to joining Polytechnic, Dr. Chang was Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Motorola Professor of Engineering at Arizona State University from 1992-94. Formerly a Professor of Electrical and Computer engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Dr. Chang was chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1981 to 1989 and served as the founding director of the NSF/Industry Cooperative Research Center for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Computer-Aided Design from 1987-92.
Dr. Chang received his M.S. and PhD in Applied Physics from Harvard University and his B.S. in electrical engineering from National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan. He was elected as Fellow (1985) and Life Fellow (2006) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), serving as President of its Professional Society on Antennas and Propagation in 1991. He was also Chairman of the U.S. National Committee of the International Scientific Radio Union, 1993-1996, a scientific organization with more than 60 member-nations. His other professional affiliations include being elected as a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy.
Dr. Chang is a specialist in electromagnetic theory, antennas, monolithic microwave integrated circuits, fiber optics and electromagnetic compatibility and interference. Dr. Chang’s published journal papers and books, technical reports and presentations at international symposia and conferences numbered over 300. He once served Editor of Radio Science, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions for Antennas and Propagation, and an IEEE Third Millennium Medal recipient in 2000.
As an active researcher, Dr. Chang was highly successful in securing externally funded programs, and as president, Dr. Chang was also widely known as an accomplished fundraiser. The University successfully completed a four-year campaign of $275M in 2002, the largest in its history, under his leadership. Its annual Promise Fund Dinner routinely raised an average of over a million dollars a year during his presidency.
Dr. Chang has been active in various civic capacities since coming to New York City in 1994. He has been a member of the Board for Funds for the City of New York since 2003. Dr. Chang was named to NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Transition Team in 2001, and has served on Mayor’s Committee on Appointments and on Panel for Education Policy, to help set educational reform agenda for City’s public school system with a student population of over 1.1 million. Dr. Chang was a recipient of the New York State’s Outstanding Leadership Award by Governor Pataki in 2000, and “We the People in America” award in 2003 from the International TV Channel. He was also named one of the 100 Most Influential Minority Business Persons in New York City by the Crain’s Business Journal in the same year.
On the corporate side, Dr. Chang has been a member of the Board of the Fedders Corporation, American XTAL Technology Inc, and more recently, Time Warner Cable, the second largest cable company in the United States with over US$16 billion in revenue. On the entrepreneurial side, Dr. Chang co-founded two high-tech start-ups in microwaves and wireless technology with his former students at the University of Colorado in the nineties which were later sold to two software/Internet companies listed on NASDAQ.
As an internationalist, Dr. Chang has long been interested in the many facets of globalization, particularly its impact on economic and cultural impacts around the World. He was elected as a member of the renowned foreign policy think tank, Council on Foreign Relations, and the New York City Economic Club. He served as an advisor for science & technology to two premiers of Taiwan from 1996-98, He was a technical program vice chair for the 2000 World Conference on Business Innovation & Technology Incubation in Shanghai, sponsored by China’s Ministry of Science and Technology, and later was invited back in 2002 by the Ministry to participate in its 21st Century China’s S&T Policy Forum in Beijing. As an Asian American, Dr. Chang has befriended with many of the government, industrial and business leaders in Asian countries. He has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Korean Observer since 1998. He was named as honorary professor at several major universities in China including Nanjing University, both Xi’an and Southwest Jiao Tung Universities, and South China University of Technology.
Dr. Chang is strongly committed to promote the interest of minorities and women in engineering. He was on the Board of the National Action Council for Minority in Engineering (NACME), 2001-06, serving as a member of its Steering Committee in 2005-06. He has also served since 1999 as a founding member of the National Advisory Council of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program which provides $50M of scholarships each year for economically disadvantaged for a period of twenty years. Dr. Chang has also been a decade-long member of Committee of 100, an advocacy group of over a hundred distinguished Chinese American leaders dedicated to promote a better understanding of the Sino-American relationship as well as the civil rights of Americans of Chinese origin.
Oct. 28
Dr. David C. Chang, Chancellor of Polytechnic Institute of New York University in Brooklyn, New York, was invited to visit the National Cheng Kung University. He was scheduled to meet with Academician Michael M.C. Lai, the President of NCKU, to exchange their opinions on higher education.
President Lai pointed out that one of his missions during his presidency in NCKU is to recruit more experts and researchers with expertise, especially world-renowned professors to teach in NCKU. Dr. Chang showed great interests to set up an institute of Polytechnic Institute of New York University in Asia, which will be good news to Taiwanese students.
Dr. Chang applauded President Lai’s perspectives and indicated that the school disciplines and alumni of NCKU can play vital roles in recruiting excellent teachers, which can provide proper guidance for students in choosing good research topics.
Dr. Chang also welcomed President Lai’s visit to Polytechnic Institute of New York University in the coming future. President Lai said that conducting cross-disciplinary research is much easier in NCKU because of its integrated and closely interlinked campuses. “NCKU started out as an engineering school and foster leadership with spirit of humanism to meet the requirement of qualified manpower in the 21st century,” said President Lai.
Dr. Chang stressed that the current curriculum of engineering should be re-organized in the perspective of liberal arts because of increasing interdisciplinary researches for the future research trend. He said that, in Polytechnic Institute of New York University, the most conspicuous cooperation could be found in between colleges of medicine and engineering
President Lai acknowledged that NCKU should make efforts to enhance the English proficiency as well as to attract more intelligent and excellent students to study in NCKU.
Dr. Chang was also invited as a speaker for R&D Forum, titled “Globalization and Its Curriculum Implications in Higher Education.”
About Dr. David C. Chang
Dr. David C. Chang, an internationally renowned scholar in the field of electromagnetics, has been the Chancellor of Polytechnic University (now Polytechnic Institute of New York University) in Brooklyn, New York since 2005 after serving as the President of the same university for eleven years.
Prior to joining Polytechnic, Dr. Chang was Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Motorola Professor of Engineering at Arizona State University from 1992-94. Formerly a Professor of Electrical and Computer engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Dr. Chang was chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1981 to 1989 and served as the founding director of the NSF/Industry Cooperative Research Center for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Computer-Aided Design from 1987-92.
Dr. Chang received his M.S. and PhD in Applied Physics from Harvard University and his B.S. in electrical engineering from National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan. He was elected as Fellow (1985) and Life Fellow (2006) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), serving as President of its Professional Society on Antennas and Propagation in 1991. He was also Chairman of the U.S. National Committee of the International Scientific Radio Union, 1993-1996, a scientific organization with more than 60 member-nations. His other professional affiliations include being elected as a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy.
Dr. Chang is a specialist in electromagnetic theory, antennas, monolithic microwave integrated circuits, fiber optics and electromagnetic compatibility and interference. Dr. Chang’s published journal papers and books, technical reports and presentations at international symposia and conferences numbered over 300. He once served Editor of Radio Science, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions for Antennas and Propagation, and an IEEE Third Millennium Medal recipient in 2000.
As an active researcher, Dr. Chang was highly successful in securing externally funded programs, and as president, Dr. Chang was also widely known as an accomplished fundraiser. The University successfully completed a four-year campaign of $275M in 2002, the largest in its history, under his leadership. Its annual Promise Fund Dinner routinely raised an average of over a million dollars a year during his presidency.
Dr. Chang has been active in various civic capacities since coming to New York City in 1994. He has been a member of the Board for Funds for the City of New York since 2003. Dr. Chang was named to NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Transition Team in 2001, and has served on Mayor’s Committee on Appointments and on Panel for Education Policy, to help set educational reform agenda for City’s public school system with a student population of over 1.1 million. Dr. Chang was a recipient of the New York State’s Outstanding Leadership Award by Governor Pataki in 2000, and “We the People in America” award in 2003 from the International TV Channel. He was also named one of the 100 Most Influential Minority Business Persons in New York City by the Crain’s Business Journal in the same year.
On the corporate side, Dr. Chang has been a member of the Board of the Fedders Corporation, American XTAL Technology Inc, and more recently, Time Warner Cable, the second largest cable company in the United States with over US$16 billion in revenue. On the entrepreneurial side, Dr. Chang co-founded two high-tech start-ups in microwaves and wireless technology with his former students at the University of Colorado in the nineties which were later sold to two software/Internet companies listed on NASDAQ.
As an internationalist, Dr. Chang has long been interested in the many facets of globalization, particularly its impact on economic and cultural impacts around the World. He was elected as a member of the renowned foreign policy think tank, Council on Foreign Relations, and the New York City Economic Club. He served as an advisor for science & technology to two premiers of Taiwan from 1996-98, He was a technical program vice chair for the 2000 World Conference on Business Innovation & Technology Incubation in Shanghai, sponsored by China’s Ministry of Science and Technology, and later was invited back in 2002 by the Ministry to participate in its 21st Century China’s S&T Policy Forum in Beijing. As an Asian American, Dr. Chang has befriended with many of the government, industrial and business leaders in Asian countries. He has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Korean Observer since 1998. He was named as honorary professor at several major universities in China including Nanjing University, both Xi’an and Southwest Jiao Tung Universities, and South China University of Technology.
Dr. Chang is strongly committed to promote the interest of minorities and women in engineering. He was on the Board of the National Action Council for Minority in Engineering (NACME), 2001-06, serving as a member of its Steering Committee in 2005-06. He has also served since 1999 as a founding member of the National Advisory Council of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program which provides $50M of scholarships each year for economically disadvantaged for a period of twenty years. Dr. Chang has also been a decade-long member of Committee of 100, an advocacy group of over a hundred distinguished Chinese American leaders dedicated to promote a better understanding of the Sino-American relationship as well as the civil rights of Americans of Chinese origin.
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