National Taiwan University (NTU) plans to set up an international semiconductor degree program which aims to recruit 50 to 60 foreign students per year, NTU president Chen Wen-chang (陳文章) said yesterday.
Speaking during a briefing for an event to be held to celebrate the university’s centennial in 2028, Chen said NTU has applied to establish a program with the Ministry of Education that seeks to cultivate international talent.
If the program is approved, it would start off with 50 to 60 students, who would receive a bachelor’s degree upon completion, Chen said.
Photo: Richard Chung, Reuters
The university said the program’s faculty could include heavyweights from the local semiconductor industry, but did not offer more specifics.
Taiwan produces 90 percent of the world’s most advanced semiconductors, with the success of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, often coveted by other nations at a time when the global supply chain is facing challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and growing geopolitical tensions.
Minister Without Portfolio John Deng (鄧振中), who heads the Executive Yuan’s Office of Trade Negotiations and is part of Taiwan’s delegation to the APEC summit in San Francisco, said on Sunday that he expects other APEC members to want to discuss semiconductor cooperation during bilateral talks with Taiwan.
APEC members are likely hoping Taiwanese IC companies will invest in their countries or help them to build up their own semiconductor talent pools, Deng said.
NTU is the top university in Taiwan, and 21st in the QS World University Rankings: Asia 2024.
TRAGEDY: An expert said that the incident was uncommon as the chance of a ground crew member being sucked into an IDF engine was ‘minuscule’ A master sergeant yesterday morning died after she was sucked into an engine during a routine inspection of a fighter jet at an air base in Taichung, the Air Force Command Headquarters said. The officer, surnamed Hu (胡), was conducting final landing checks at Ching Chuan Kang (清泉崗) Air Base when she was pulled into the jet’s engine for unknown reasons, the air force said in a news release. She was transported to a hospital for emergency treatment, but could not be revived, it said. The air force expressed its deepest sympathies over the incident, and vowed to work with authorities as they
A tourist who was struck and injured by a train in a scenic area of New Taipei City’s Pingsi District (平溪) on Monday might be fined for trespassing on the tracks, the Railway Police Bureau said yesterday. The New Taipei City Fire Department said it received a call at 4:37pm on Monday about an incident in Shifen (十分), a tourist destination on the Pingsi Railway Line. After arriving on the scene, paramedics treated a woman in her 30s for a 3cm to 5cm laceration on her head, the department said. She was taken to a hospital in Keelung, it said. Surveillance footage from a
BITTERLY COLD: The inauguration ceremony for US president-elect Donald Trump has been moved indoors due to cold weather, with the new venue lacking capacity A delegation of cross-party lawmakers from Taiwan, led by Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜), for the inauguration of US president-elect Donald Trump, would not be able to attend the ceremony, as it is being moved indoors due to forecasts of intense cold weather in Washington tomorrow. The inauguration ceremony for Trump and US vice president-elect JD Vance is to be held inside the Capitol Rotunda, which has a capacity of about 2,000 people. A person familiar with the issue yesterday said although the outdoor inauguration ceremony has been relocated, Taiwan’s legislative delegation has decided to head off to Washington as scheduled. The delegation
Another wave of cold air would affect Taiwan starting from Friday and could evolve into a continental cold mass, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday. Temperatures could drop below 10°C across Taiwan on Monday and Tuesday next week, CWA forecaster Chang Chun-yao (張竣堯) said. Seasonal northeasterly winds could bring rain, he said. Meanwhile, due to the continental cold mass and radiative cooling, it would be cold in northern and northeastern Taiwan today and tomorrow, according to the CWA. From last night to this morning, temperatures could drop below 10°C in northern Taiwan, it said. A thin coat of snow
RSS