University-Industry Cooperation: Development and Experience Sharing

1. University-Industry Cooperation: Development and Experience Sharing Professor Shuo-Yan Chou Department of Industrial Management National Taiwan University of Science & Technology

2. Agenda • Types of Cooperation • Benefits of Cooperation • Representative Coop Programs and Cases • Preparation and Establishing Connection • NTUST Experiences • Successful and Failure Cases • Influencing Factors for the Success • Future Trends • Personal Experiences • Q&A

3. Education Coop programs (sandwich, special class) Student internship, RD substitute for mandatory military service Endowed chairs/classroom; donation Industry members serving in the advisory board Research and Development Project based R&D; company initiated cooperative R&D; facility rental Government sponsored cooperative projects (MOE, NSC) Consultancy; industry training courses; faculty on-leave to industry Technology transfer Incubation center Endowed centers/labs Types of University-Industry Cooperation

4. For Universities Supplement/complement to in-class education Future job opportunities Student development (sandwich education) Funding for research and development Keeping up with industry development Bridging the gap between education and industry practice For Industry Reduction of investment on assets Lower R&D cost Flexible high-end R&D resources Potential recruit opportunities Short-term labor relief Corporate image (co-branding) Benefits of University-Industry Cooperation

5. University-Industry Cooperation Programs and Cases • UNESCO • Chair on Cooperation between Higher Engineering Education and Industry • University of Cincinnati • First Coop Program • University of Waterloo • Tsinghua University • Suzhou Industrial Park Vocational College • Shantou University (CDIO) • National Yunlin University of Science & Technology • National Tsinghua University • National Taiwan University of Science & Technology

6. Preparation and Establishing Connection • Building up internal labs, teams and capacity • System for faculty on-leave to industry • Academic credits towards internship in industry • Writing CFP for companies • Inviting industry people to give talks at universities • Inviting industry members to serve on the advisory board • Helping companies write proposals to apply for gov’t support • Site visits: plant trip, site survey, writing cases or research papers • Student internship • Responding to company CFP: Individual projects; company blanket R&D projects; joint research

7. NTUST University-Industry Collaboration Experiences • Office of Research & Development • Industry-University Cooperation Center • Rare and Expensive Equipment Center • Technology Transfer Center • Patent Office • Incubation Center • Regional Industry-University Cooperation Center • Technology Development Centers (MOE) • R&D Centers

8. Research and Development Center at NTUST • Technology Development Centers (MOE) • Communication & Electromagnetic Technology Center • Opto-Mechatronics Technology Center • RD Centers • Taiwan Information Security Center • Ecological and Hazard Mitigation Engineering Research Center • Rare and Expensive Equipment Center • Automation and Control Center • Nanotechnology Research Center • Intelligent Robotics Center • Material Technology Research Center • Power and Electronics Research Center • Taiwan Lottery and Gaming Research Center • Construction Vocational Hazard Prevention Research Center

9. RFID Education & Research Center at NTUST • Fostering international cooperation • Building up the lab • Engaging contacts with international organizations • Visiting international organizations • Europe • Japan • US • Hosting international events • Finding funding from industry to support research

10. Successful Cases • Construction engineering • Funding: NSC support • Research team: high qualified professors and students • IP Management: Technology transfer center • Intelligent Wire-cut EDM • Multiplicity or complement • Unification of four supporting firms

11. Failure Cases • Companies ceasing support to projects admist the development • Ill collaboration between RD teams members from universities and companies • Different functions and objectives for organizations in acadmic and industry • Problems with technology disclosure or non-diclosure(secrecy) • Contract problems

12. Influencing Factors for the Success • Cooperative attitude • Cultural integration • Quality of members • Cooperative history • Win-Win situation? • Legal protection

13. Future Trends of University-Industry Cooperation • University labs as corporate labs • Industry consortia run within universities • Global Internship • Advisory board members: school, college and department • Forming research/work groups • Cooperating with other academic institutes • Corporate endowment

14. Personal Experiences: National Science Council • Study of Collaborative Planning for Supply Chains under Short Product Lifecycle Demand Models • Application of Fractal Theory in Quality Management • Inventory Modeling under Dynamic Demand • The Study of Analysis Tools for Supporting Customer Relationship Management • The Construction of a Web-based Agile Manufacturing System • The Application of Fractal and Wavelet in Time Series Analysis • A Web-based Design Management System for Supporting Concurrent Engineering • Decision Support Systems: Development of a Web-based Fuzzy Survey Tool for Multi-dimensional Scaling • Decision Support Systems: Development of Multi-dimensional Data Visualization Tools • Automatic Generation of Inspection Paths for Coordinate Measuring Machining • National Digital Archive Project: The Study of Context Aware Wireless Guiding System

15. Personal Experiences: Public Sectors • MOE: RFID Teaching and Research Lab Setup Project; Knowledge Modeling for CRM Systems • Taiwan Area National Freeway Engineering Bureau, Ministry of Transportation and Communications: Investigation of 3D Tunnel Shape Change and Geology Damaging Model • Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Council of Labor Affairs: Automatic Generation of Scaffold Construction System • Industrial Development Bureau, MOEA: Performance Evaluation and Improvement Study of the Awarding of Taiwan National Quality Award • III: A Study of Digital Contents Value-added Platform for Traditional Taiwanese Cultural Contents; The Development of Representation for Physical Objects • CECI: TACT Air cargo terminal reconstruction consulting services • Footwear Technology Research Institute: The Study and Analysis of Foot Measurement Technology

16. Personal Experiences: Public Sectors (EVTA)Employment and Vocational Training Administration • The Promotion of Quality Certification System for Private Employment Service Agencies • Possibility Study of the Merging of Employment Service Centers and Vocational Training Centers • Study on the Simplification EVTA Business Processes and the Utilization of Human Resources • Study on the Evaluation and Management of Private Employment Service Agencies • Evaluation and Classification of Private Employment Agencies • Study and Reorientation of Vocational Training Centers • Evaluation of Employment Agencies for Foreign Labor Employment and Placement • Man-power Requirement Prediction • Re-engineering of Application Processing for Foreign Labor Application

17. Personal Experiences: Private Industry • “Management and Research Services,” Lancaster Consulting Group Sdn Bhd., Malaysia. • “Knowledge Modeling for CRM Systems,” Sagatek, Taiwan • “Management and Production Improvement,” Glory Inc., Taipei, Taiwan. • “Virtual Keyboard Development,” SOE, Taipei, Taiwan. • “Development of Integrated Web TV Platform,” Sagatek, Taiwan. • “Web-based Multimedia Broadcasting Systems,” Webs-TV, Taiwan. • “Multimedia Product Presentation,” Dragontex Inc., Taipei, Taiwan. • NTIT: Application of Information Technology in Industrial Management

18. Personal Experiences: Consultancy • Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan. • Institute for Information Industry, Taipei, Taiwan. • Taiwan Construction Research Center, Taipei, Taiwan. • Corporate Synergy Development Center, Taiwan. • Sagatek, Taipei, Taiwan. • Panram Inc., Taipei, Taiwan. • Formosa Prosonic Group, Qingxi, Guangdong, China. (subsidiary of Formosa Prosonic Inc. in Malaysia) • AsiaCom, Beijing, China. • eCode, Taipei, Taiwan. • Control Data (CDC, Taiwan), Taipei, Taiwan. • Wolverine Decision Technology, Inc., Irvine, CA, USA.

19. Industry Taiwan China Malaysia Organization UNESCO Group T China IE Coop Mingchi University of Technology Shantou University University of Cincinnati MIT Personal Experiences: Industry Lectures

20. Q & A