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The First Teaching Delegation to the Philippines: NSYSU Heads Southward

NSYSU teaching delegations to the Philippines; from left: Professor Shu-Min Li,  Associate Professor Yun-Nan Chang, Professor Shen-Fu Hsiao,  Professor Chua-Chin Wang, Associate Professor Ko-Chi Kuo
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The NSYSU teaching delegation has recently visited the Philippines for academic exchange. NSYSU is the first in Taiwan to echo the new Southbound policy and form a teaching delegation team to go to the Philippines. In the future, NSYSU will collaborate with the Batangas State University and the University of the Philippines, Diliman in international research, forming the role model for international collaboration.

The NSYSU teaching delegation team was led by Professor Chua-Chin Wang of the Department of Electrical Engineering. Participating faculty and students included Professor Shen-Fu Hsiao, Professor Shu-Min Li, Associate Professor Yun-Nan Chang, Associate Professor Ko-Chi Kuo, Ph.D. student Bang-Yan Lo and Masters student Chong-Jie Hsu. The delegation divided into two teams; one headed to the University of the Philippines, Diliman to conduct intense lectures on Analog and Mixed-signal Integrated Circuit Design, the other to Batangas State University for intense teaching on Digital Integrated Circuit Design.

The NSYSU teaching delegation team combined academic research with the technical exchange. In addition to mixed-signal and digital designs, testing, and diagnosis, the team arranged full customization, VLSI designs and digital signal processing framework, and VLSI circuit tests as topics of experimental teaching with practical application on computers. The team also visited the presidents of the universities and the chairs of electronic engineering departments to promote NSYSU’s international students recruitment through interaction with faculty and students in Philippino universities.

Dr. Tirso A. Ronquuillo of the Batangas State University and Prof. Danilo L. the Concepcion of University of the Philippines, Diliman are very supportive of education and research for IC design and are both actively seeking grants from the Philippino government to establish the proper environment for IC designs. They stated that the Philippines need assistance in establishing the foundation of IC design education. The NSYSU delegation team built a basis for future collaboration, which not only contributed to the academic diplomacy between Taiwan and the Philippines but also to initiate the foundation for new Southbound Policy of the Taiwanese government. Furthermore, through the interaction, NSYSU hopes to form stronger ties with Philippino talents in IC design and testing industries. Both presidents mentioned that the delegation and experimental teaching formed the academic bridge across the Pacific Ocean and established the platform for technological exchange.

Besides facilitating the learning potential of Philippino universities in IC circuit designs, the NSYSU teaching delegation team hopes to recruit Philippino students to study in NSYSU Ph.D. programs. Currently, there is no organization in the Philippines that resembles the National Chip Implementation Center in Taiwan. Hence, the team also hopes to initiate more collaboration and discussion with professors who are interested in IC designs.
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