National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), established as “Tainan Technical College” in 1931, has transformed into one of the most established comprehensive universities with 11 different colleges in Taiwan. NCKU locates in Tainan, the oldest city (ancient capital) in Taiwan. With its time-honored 300-year history, the city is well woven into the fabric of rich culture and interesting anecdotes. The huge variety of local food also made Tainan be well-known as the food capital of Taiwan.
NCKU is aim to build students’ abilities to stake out their own values within the global community. These are the visions that NCKU’s students work hard for:
1. Enhance the university’s social responsibility and influence to further the public interest
2. Cultivate critical thinking, imagination, and empathy in students
3. Stimulate industrial development to facilitate economic transformation and progress
4. Participate in regional integration and governance to fulfill the social responsibility.
Academic: GPA of 3.0 or above on their studies to date
English Language:
– IELTS: 6.0
– TOEFL iBT: 78
– Duolingo English Test: not accepted
2 September 2024 – 7 January 2025
Available Courses
This course introduces the basic behavior of various seismic resisting steel members and systems. The concepts and implementation of the latest seismic steel building codes are discussed. The students who join this course can be capable in performing nonlinear response analysis steel building systems and have the ability to design steel structure seismic buildings.
The goal of this course is to teach the knowledge to design, analyses and assess the FRP retrofits for existing reinforced concrete structures. This includes understanding the fundamental behavior of FRP materials as well as flexural, shear and axial strengthening of existing structures.
The course is positioned to provide advanced understanding of behavior, analysis, and design of reinforced concrete structural members and systems for students who have had basic knowledge about reinforced concrete structures. The objectives include (1) prediction of the behaviors of flexure, flexure and axial load, and beam-column connections of RC members, and conduct the related seismic designs according to ACI 318; (2) analysis of shear behavior of a membrane element using softened truss model; and (3) estimation of the temperature distribution and residual strength of a beam, column, and slab.
Theory and applications of finite element method; stiffness matrices for triangular, quadrilateral, hexahedral and isoparametric elements; two- and three-dimensional elements including solids of revolution; knowledge of using variational method (such as Rayleight-Ritz method) and weighted residual (such as Galerkin method) to formulate finite element expressions; employing of commercial finite element program ABAQUS to solve practical engineering problem.
To elucidate threats to sustainability, identify improvement opportunities, and to measure the progresses that have been made in a community or society, various kinds of indicators are developed. In this course, students will be guided through principles, concepts, strength, and key assumptions on which those indicators are constructed. Indicators covered would include both conventional environmental / social / economic indicators and relatively new indicators. For example, environmental impact category indicators (global warming potential, acidification potential, eutrophication potential, human toxicity potential, photo-oxidants creation potential etc.), damage indicators (disability adjusted life years, DALYs), ecological footprint, water/carbon footprint, material input per service, poverty and crime rates, median income, unemployment rate, literacy rate, GDP growth rate, and some other integrated indicators proposed by international organizations such as Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
This course objectives are: (1) to introduce students to the concepts of sustainability in construction engineering; (2) to learn the concepts and quantification method of carbon-foot print and embodied energy of construction materials; (3) to learn the concepts of Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Cost Analysis; (4) to learn and use practical sustainability rating system tools to demonstrate the consequences of engineering solutions in environment, economic and society aspect of sustainability design; (5) to educate a new generation of engineers with the skills to perform integrative analyses and communicate the results to decision-makers and the society from a sustainable perspective.
The course continues to expand the knowledge of the students of the Dutch language for Research purposes where Graduate students who have limited training in Dutch must quickly expand their understanding of Dutch to be able to successfully read and translate Dutch Research in the Dutch Language.
The course will discuss more advanced Dutch sources on Taiwanese, Southeast Asian and general Dutch history used by the students for their research and thesis. The course will rapidly increase the difficulty of the Dutch resources to be used from intermediate to advanced. The course will use Dutch language materials to be studied in class depending on the needs of the students.
This course aims to introduce genomics and corresponding common analysis approaches so that students develop a taste for bioinformatics research. The secret of life is hidden in genomes and can be revealed by analyzing genomic sequences using various bioinformatics tools. After this course, we expect students to appreciate the importance of genomics and are able to analyze various genomics data using basic bioinformatics tools.
This course aims to introduce the fundamental knowledge of the business management in bioindustry to students. By bringing fundamentals of business management, coupled with the experience sharing of industry experts, students can enhance their ability in strategy, management, investment, marketing, finance and accounting in bioindustry.
This course offers an in-depth study of biological micro-electro-mechanical systems (BioMEMs). It emphasizes learning microfabrication techniques, with a special focus on microfluidics and their applications in cellular biology. The curriculum includes an exploration of various microfluidic device designs and platforms for molecular and cell biology. Practical, hands-on sessions complement the theoretical lectures. Evaluation criteria encompass attendance, active course participation, a final exam, and an oral presentation on a current BioMEMs topic.
This course explains World War II from a global perspective including causes, events and consequences. The course also includes the era of the Cold War and beyond that resulted from World War II. Additionally, this course will also explain the impact of these events on Southeast Asia. This ranges from the Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia to the decolonization and independence of the Southeast Asian countries as well as the impact of the Cold War in the region.
The purpose of this course is to introduce the basic knowledge, theory and basic skills of physiology experiments, and to introduce the basic methods and procedures of physiology experiment research systematically in combination with modern experimental techniques. It is expected that students can understand physiology knowledge. The application and research innovations, in order to cultivate research interests in exploring human physiological mechanisms.
Understand the properties of basic materials. Understand the characteristics of various basic materials. Understand the processing and manufacturing processes of various basic materials
The purpose of this course is to enable students to understand the principles of statistics, and to apply experimental design to general experimental scientific research.
To understand the basic skills of computer programming for problem solving techniques. Hand on experience on medical computing for simulated and real biomedical signals. Experience varied types of signal processing technique for research.
This course mainly allows students to learn the basic knowledge of biotechnology, and introduces the evolution and application of biotechnology. It is a necessary basic subject for advanced professional courses in biotechnology. Through the study of this course, students can understand the basic principles and applications of biotechnology, and at the same time understand the current status of the latest biotechnology development, and integrate with the international standards.
Lectures and discussions The biochemical reaction methods of energy production by organisms include oxidative phosphorylation and photosynthetic phosphorylation and biosynthetic pathways and metabolic methods of biological macromolecules including amino acids, proteins, carbohydrates, nucleic acids and lipids.
This lecture aims to introduce the structure, organelles, and functions of cells for further exploring the underline mechanism of cell-cell interaction. In addition to learning cell biology related knowledge, this lecture also train students to raise and solve important questions independently.
Reading scientific literature is essential for learning the latest technological advances. In this course, students will select interesting biotech papers and lead the classmates through the paper via presentation. Students will not only learn various technical advances, but also practice how to give a good presentation.
Introduction to protein purification and analysis technology.