National Tsing Hua University’s (NTHU) plan to establish a College of Semiconductor Research (CoSR) has been approved by the Ministry of Education and student recruitment will soon follow. President Hocheng Hong said that the institute will be headed by Academician of Academia Sinica Burn J. Lin, whose research in immersion lithography has had a major impact on the semiconductor industry worldwide. He added that with Lin’s leadership, combined with NTHU’s strength in technology and interdisciplinary studies, the CoSR will certainly become a major force in semiconductor research.
This college will consist of four disciplines: Semiconductor Device, Semiconductor Design, Semiconductor Process, and Semiconductor Material. Each year about 80 master’s students and 20 doctoral students will enroll. The first batch of students will be admitted as early as the spring of 2022.
President Hocheng further indicates that NTHU is the only university in greater China that has three Nobel laureates amongst its alumni. Moreover, NTHU has been rated among the top 100 schools worldwide in electrical engineering and computer science, materials science, physics, chemistry, chemical engineering, machinery, and statistics—placing it in an excellent position to turn out graduates with a broad-based creative vision, the basis of cutting-edge research.
Dr. Lin said that domestic universities already turn out plenty of graduates for the semiconductor industry in Taiwan so that the CoSR’s main focus should be on raising the nation’s international competitiveness. To realize this vision, Lin wants to cultivate each student into a specialist, generalist, innovator, and problem solver. A student first acquires the ability to dig deep into a given field of semiconductor technology, thus becoming a sought-after specialist. However, semiconductor technology encompasses too many fields for any individual to comprehend all. They need to be proficient in related fields in order to communicate with other specialists, thus, they have to be a generalist.
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