2009 Teacher's Day Celebration Ceremony in NCKU Recognized Remarkable Teachers.

TAINAN, Taiwan -- "2009 Teacher's Day Celebration Ceremony" was held on 10 am Sep 22nd at Library Conference Center in National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan for an early celebration of Teacher's Day, followed by a tea party. The NCKU President, Academician Michael Ming-Chiao Lai presented various awards of recognition, including Excellent-Teaching Award, General Education Award and Long-Service Award, to those outstanding teachers.

"Teaching with selfless dedication is a respected career. Excellent performance of students is always on top of teachers' wishes. Teacher is probably the only profession that has sincere wishes that their apprentices, namely students, outperform teachers themselves, which is probably the most honorable thing to the respected teachers. National Cheng Kung University is a comprehensive university with an equal emphasis on both research and education. Professors' lectures in class often shape more influence than their researches. Education is the main objective to establish the university. If a university is referred as a whole body, then teachers, students and alumni are the three parts to make up the body. Among all, the component - students is the most important constituent of the body," said President Lai.

"You have to work very hard being a remarkable teacher," said President Lai. He also highly and strongly admired that all attending teachers had the commendable contribution and outstanding performance in education. Besides that, he also commented that teacher had not only to teach professional knowledge, but also to cultivate the students as a successful person in the 21st century with good character, morality, and taste. "Teaching students in accordance with their aptitude is important. You have to prepare different materials with different kinds of students in different classes. All teachers need to improve themselves in educating students to accommodate for the 21st century. I hope all teachers notice that teaching well is a honor, a responsibility and an important mission," said President Lai.

Prof. Ming-Tzong Yang from Department of Accounting and Statistics presented on behalf of all award recipients that all university teachers played equally three roles as teaching, research and service. Among them, conducting a research work makes people feel more lonely and isolated as well as takes longer time to accomplish. However, the research outcomes are more easily and practically assessed. In the past, indices used in performance assessment of a teacher, for example, funding from Ministry of Education (MOE), academic promotion, etc., are more inclined to the component - research. Instead, teaching is more implicit, but could give more influences than the other two. "Teacher, what you said before really influenced me a lot in my career, said by the graduated students ten or twenty years ago would be the most prestigious award to any teacher," said Prof. Yang, also in response to the words of President Lai. "Luckily, the Ministry of Education (MOE) has not been too late to start promoting teaching excellence, and allocated some special funds in "Five Year 50 billion NTD (5Y50B)" for Excellent Teaching Projects these years. Especially, President Lai really emphasized much in teaching and has requested to put more effort since NCKU has been awarded with the projects and supplement of 5Y50B. From my experience and understandings learned from my son on his tenure to pursue his academic degrees as a bachelor from National Tsing Hua University, a master from National Taiwan University and a doctor from National Chiao Tung University, teachers' passions and attentions to students in these above three universities are less than those in NCKU. This certainly is a good fortune of NCKU's students. Moreover, I also believed that all the teachers who received the awards today will contribute more, work harder, and be more responsible in education," said Prof. Yang.

Excellent-Teaching Awards include Remarkable Teacher Award and Excellent Teacher Award. There are 12 professors recognized with Remarkable Teacher Award, each of them granted with a medal and a cash award of NT$ 120,000 in 3 consecutive years. They are Prof. Yi-Lin Shih from Department of Chinese Literature, Prof. Yao-Ting Wu from Department of Chemistry, Prof. Wei-Min Zhang from Department of Physics, Prof. Dar-Yun Chiang from Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Prof. Weng-Sing Hwang from Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Prof. Chang-Tai Tsai from Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, Prof. Taho Yang from the Institute of Manufacturing Information and Systems, Prof. Chung-Ho Chen from Department of Electrical Engineering, Prof. Ming-Tzong Yang from Department of Accounting and Statistics, Prof. Meei-Jyh Jiang from Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Prof. Hong-Ming Tsai from Department of Diagnostic Radiology, and Prof. Mei-Feng Lin from Department of Nursing.

These twelve respected faculty will also be introduced in to the NCKU Academy of Educators. Furthermore, Prof. Yi-Lin Shih from Department of Chinese Literature, Prof. Wei-Min Zhang from Department of Physics, Prof. Ming-Tzong Yang from Department of Accounting and Statistics, and Prof. Hong-Ming Tsai from Department of Diagnostic Radiology have received twice the awarded Senior Fellowship by receiving Excellent-Teaching Award.

There are 45 professors as recipients of Excellent Teacher Award, each of them granted with a medal and a cash award of NT$ 30,000. They are Prof. Wei-yung Wang from Department of Chinese Literature, Prof. Hui-Tzu Min from Department of Foreign Language and Literature, Prof. Mei-Fang Su from Department of History, Prof. Cheng-Chi Li from Department of Taiwanese Literature, Prof. Yung-fu Fang from Department of Mathematics, Prof. Wen-Ching Lien from Department of Mathematics, Prof. Shu-Chiuan Chang from Department of Physics, Prof. Huai-Jen Yang from Department of Earth Sciences, Prof. Horng-Long Cheng from Institute of Electro-Optical Science and Engineering, Prof. Dong-Huang Chen from Department of Chemical Engineering, Prof. Tsair-Fuh Lin from Department of Environmental Engineering, Prof. Tei-Chen Chen from Department of Mechanical Engineering, Prof. Jia-Jin Chen from Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Prof. Cary T. Chiou from Department of Environmental Engineering, Prof. Ji-Jean Wu from Department of Chemical Engineering, Prof. Jong-Shin Huang from Department of Civil Engineering, Prof. Min-Chih Huang from Department of Systems and Naval Mechatronic Engineering, Prof. Jaan-Rong Tsai from Department of Geomatics, Prof. Jenn-Jier Lien and Prof. Pei-Yin Chen from Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Prof. Tzuu-Hseng Li , Prof. Mau-Phon Houng and Prof. Le-Ren Chang-Chien from Department of Electrical Engineering, Prof. Heng Chang from Department of Architecture, Prof. Hsien-Hsin Cheng from Department of Urban Planning, Prof. H. C. Wang from Department of Industrial and Information Management, Prof. Dung-Chun Tsai from Department of Transportation and Communication Management Science, Prof. Chiung-Hui Tseng from Department of Business Administration, Prof. Chin-Chen Chien from Department of Accounting, Prof. Chiung-Yu Chen from Department of Internal Medicine, Prof. Jing-Jane Tsai from Department of Neurology, Prof. Jeng-Feng Yang from Department of Physical Therapy, Prof. Jiunn-Jong Wu from Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, Prof. Yea-Huei Kao from Institute of Clinical Pharmacy, Prof. Pei-Luen Tsai from Department of Occupational Therapy, Prof. Hsiao-Sheng Liu from Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Prof. Fong-Sen Wu from Department of Physiology, Prof. Jin-Shang Wu from Department of Family Medicine, Prof. Ming-Yang Lee Department of Surgery, Prof. Yuh-Jyh Lin from Department of Pediatrics, Prof. Po-Lin Chen from Department of Internal Medicine, Prof. Ling Chang from Institute of Molecular Medicine, Prof. Bling-Lin Cherng from Institute of Education, Prof. Guang-Jong Fann from Department of Economics, and Prof. Ya-fu Lee from Department of Life Sciences.

The are 4 professors as recipients of General Education Award for outstanding teacher, including Prof. Ching-Fei Wang from Department of Political Science, Prof. Thou-Jen Whang from Department of Chemistry, Prof. Chien I-Ming from Department of Taiwanese Literature, and Prof. Cheng-Fang Yang from Department of Occupational therapy.

There are two professors awarded 40 years veteran of the remarkable teachers including Prof. from Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, Prof. Ming-Tzong Yang from Department of Accounting and Statistics. And nine professors awarded 30 years veteran of the remarkable teachers including Prof. Kao-Ping Chang from Department of Chinese Literature, Prof. Wung-Hong Huang from Department of Physics, Prof. Min-Hsiung Hon from Department of Material Science and Engineering, Prof. Chia-Chuen Kao from Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, Prof. Bin-Da Liu from Department of Electrical Engineering, Prof. Che-Ming Chiang from Department of Architecture, Prof. Chin-Ho Lin from Department of Industrial and Information Management, Prof. Tsun-Mei Lin from Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, and Prof. YH Kao from Institute of Clinical Pharmacy.

About National Cheng Kung University (NCKU):

NCKU is located in the ancient city of Tainan, the historical and ancient cultural capital city of Taiwan, which boasts more than 50 national relics sanctioned by the government and is approximately 250 kilometers south of Taipei. It is connected to all major cities in Taiwan by the recently initiated state-of-the-art Taiwan High Speed Rail. Further, this historical heritage is the pride of Tainan City and represents a rich cultural resource to NCKU. The technological sectors in the Southern Taiwan Science Park offer students at NCKU with a stage to apply what they have learned into practice.

With three quarters of a century of distinguished history, with well over 130,000 powerful alumni now dotting the globe, many have achieved supreme successes in arts, business, education, science, technology and healthcare and are ready and willing to assist, with 22,000 academic selective students and 1200 academically significant faculty members currently, both have healthy dosage of international flavor, with enormous regional support, and with a permeating culture of proactive intellectual growth on the world's stage, NCKU in Tainan, Taiwan, has evolved from its engineering genesis to become a powerful comprehensive, research and international university in Asia Pacific.

Since NCKU's establishment in 1931, it has developed into a research intensive and comprehensive university with integrated academic fields in nine colleges: Liberal Arts, Sciences, Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Planning & Design, Management, Social Sciences, Medicine, and Bioscience & Biotechnology. NCKU currently offers 40 undergraduate programs (excluding Program of Bachelor's Degree), 78 master's degree programs, 54 doctoral programs and 20 master's degree programs for working professionals.