The Key Concepts of Our School Running

（ I） The key concepts of our school running are realized by the core curriculum “Humanism.”

In accordance with its philosophy of human-centered life healthcare, all of the daytime 4-year university students and 5-year junior college students are required to fulfill 4-credit humanism curriculum, while the daytime 2-year university students, evening school students, and on-the-job program students take 2 credits. This curriculum is composed of 4 parts—self, life, nature, and society.  To deepen learning effects, a variety of teaching activities are designed to attain the goals--to guide students to experiencing and reflection, which further understanding self, compassion for life, knowing nature, and respecting others.

（II）Excellent teaching combined with general education, specialty, and practice：

1. Equipped with whole software and hardware facilities and educational talents, our school cements the balance between profession and general education to compliment technical system and continue to pursue high-quality teaching and learning effects, reinforcing the unity of theory in curriculum with practicum.  Meanwhile, we propel department-based curriculum and continue to adjust the content of curriculum.  Not only do we highlight general education, but we also cultivate students with the broad perspective of life, spirit of compassion, and sense of career.  In other words, we foster excellent technical professionals with “Human-centered life healthcare.” Our curriculum is designed and divided into “formal curriculum” and “hidden curriculum” to equip students with the capabilities of humanistic compassion and life-long learning.

2. Continuing the practicum-oriented quality of technical education and focusing on teachers’ practical capability and arrange students to practice outside campus to consolidate the professional system and status of technical education, our school provides 18  fields of career examinations both for national professional examinations and for students’ practical location so as to link with the industries afterwards and assist our nation in developing high-tech and high-quality industry-related human resources.

（III）Balance quality and quantity and conduct academia-government-industry cooperative researches：

1. Our school establishes items of measures to awards teachers with researches, invites visiting professors and distinguished professors to advise and promote the academic researches of both teachers and students.

2. Our school step-wise builds up the Research Center for Industrial Applied Biotechnology”、” Examinational and Analytical Center for Food and Cosmetics Quality”、”High-valued Instrument Center”、”Scientific Research Center for Healthcare” and “Industrial Service Center, College of Engineering.” Aside from aggressively striving for national research projects, we unite with the industries and co-sign cooperation contracts to effectively synthesize the college academia-industry cooperative research resources and enhance our school’s research and development capability and level so as to back up the promotion of industrial research and development.

（IV）The innovative tasks of student affairs and counseling：

1. Construct core value and characteristic campus culture： ours primary task, based on  “Human-centered Life Healthcare,” is to establish students’ moral and ethics to enable them to identify the core value of life.  Therefore, in accordance with our school’s totalistic development and students’ characteristics, we emphasize the propelling of character education and service learning education to elevate students’ individual temperament and cultivate their positive sense of value and active attitude.

2. Build up cozy and friendly campus environment：infuse with the ideology of service learning, sense of international volunteers and student clubs (councils)，and hold such related club cadre seminars as club web making and propaganda for intellectual property rights to diverse and enhance all kinds of club activities.  We were awarded by the Ministry of Education with the prize of Excellent Friendly Campus Student Affairs and Counseling for the 97^th academic year.

（V）Main list with excellence for our school affairs’ development：

• The word-of-mouth reputation of our school enables us to host large-scale conferences：

  1. In 2006：
     ”2006 International Symposium of Essence Research and Clinical Application,” ” 2006 International Conference for Humanism,””2006 Early Childhood Care and Education—International Conference for Theory and Practice,” ”National Symposium for the Developmental Trend of Human Resources in National Care Industry in 2006.”

  2. In 2007：
     ”2007 National Seminar for College Deans of Student Affairs,” ”2007  National Seminar for Senior High and Senior Vocational School Principals,” ”2007--National Seminar for Gender Mainstream Issues and Excellent Women,” ”2007 International Symposium for Bio-active Material Nano and Micro Analyses ,””2007 International Conference for the Performance Evaluation of Professional Standard of Child Care and Education,””2007 The Second Symposium on Natural Products and Bio Tech Pharma,””2007 The Second Symposium for New Century Health Administration—Practical Application, Educational Development and Cross-Strait Exchange.”

3. In 2008：

“2008 Seminar on Creating Medicare Globalization Competency,””2008 Annual Conference on Taiwanese Feminist Scholars Association,””2008 Symposium on Long Term Care Management,””2008 International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning,” ”2008  International Conference on Chinese Marital Relationship and Education,””2008 The Third Symposium on Northeastern International Engineering and Education,””2008 The Twentieth General Educational Annual Conference,” ”2008 International Conference on Humanism and Humanities Education in the Age of Globalization.”

4. In 2009:

“2009 International Conference on Natural Nutritious Cosmetics,”“2009 Conference on Discovering “Taiwanese Life Force” from Service Learning,””2009 Innovating of Health Industry and Visioning of Long-term Care in Taiwan,””2009 Symposium on Multimedia English Teaching and Learning Theory and Practice.”

• Brilliant performance of “Project on Teaching and Learning Excellence”：
  Since the Ministry of Education commenced executing awarding the projects on college excellence, our school has been annually recognized and awarded for 4 years.  Subsequently after the previous year’s growth rate as the first place nationwide, this year we are awarded the subsidy of 64 million 38 thousand dollars, which ranked the second place nationwide and the first place in private colleges.  It is evident that our school really dedicates ourselves to the promotion of teaching and research and the performance of total effects.

• The brilliant performances of both international and nationwide competitions demonstrate the power in technical education：
  Recently, our school’s faculty and students achieve excellent performances in both international and nationwide competitions.

1. In the cooking competition of 2006 Chinese Cuisine Demonstration in Taipei, Associate Professor Wu Sung-lien of Food Science and Nutrition Department and Associate Professor Liao Ching-hsing of Hotel and Restaurant Management Department, and the competitors Kuo Tzeng-hsiang, Yang Sheng-kai, Chou Yien-ting and Chen Chang-sheng and Lin Chun-shang of Hospitality Management Department won the Gold Prize of Campus Team.

2. The senior students Wu Chang-lin and Chuang Hung-chi of Food Science and Nutrition Department and the junior student Huang Kuan-da of Food and Applied Biotechnology Department were given the excellent award in “2006 Competition of National Undergraduate Projects in Technological & Vocational Education.”

3. Associate Professor Wu Sung-lien of Food Science and Applied Biotechnology Department, Associate Professor Liao Ching-hsing of Hotel and Restaurant Department and the student Mr. Huang Wun-da of Food Science and Nutrition Department  participated in 2006 International Culinary Competition of Beijing and were awarded the Gold Plate in Individual Cold Dish , the Gold Plate in Individual Hot Dish and the Special Gold Plate in Individual Baking.

4.  Nien Yu-pei was awarded the first place in the tryout competition of the 9^th (2007) World Martial Arts for the Chinese Taipei representative team.

5. In the 9^th (2007) FHC of Shanghai International Culinary Art Competition, Associate Professor Liao Ching-hsing was awarded the Gold Plate on Vegetarian Cooking, the Silver Plate on Meat Cooking and Innovative Asian Flavor Cooking, and thus was awarded the Excellent Chef Award by this committee in 2007.  The students of Hotel and Restaurant Management Department won 4 plates altogether, too.

6  The students Lu Chieh-hsiang, Chen Hsing-hung, and Lin Ying-Ming of Computer Science and Information Engineering Department were awarded the Design Completeness Prize by the Ministry of Education in the 96^th academic year (2007) National College Embedded System（ES）Design Competition System Software Team.

7  The teacher-student team of Hotel and Restaurant Management Department beat against nationwide elites and won the Special God Cup in the championship cup of “2008 Taiwan Cuisine Exposition” Culinary Competition.

8 The junior student Yeh Kuo-tzen of Hotel and Restaurant Management Department participated in 2008 Kaohsiung International Vegetarian Culinary Competition and were awarded the third place in the professional section of Vegetable & Fruit Carving Still Demonstration.

9 The sophomore students Chuang Kun-yien and Lin Yu-ting of Hotel and Restaurant Management Department participated in 2008 Taiwan Pork Chop Festival and won the second place in the society section.

10 The teacher Mr. Tzeng Chin-ching of Hotel and Restaurant Management Department led and advised the team to win the first and second places in the first (2008) National Regimen & Health Protection Dish Culinary Competition.

11 Both Associate Professor Wu Hsung-lien and the senior student Yang Sheng-kai of Food Science and Nutrition Department were awarded the Gold Plate in 2008 IKA Olympic World Culinary Cup in Germany.

12 Assistant Professor Cheng Chin-ching of Hotel and Restaurant Management Department participated in “2009 International Saloon Cuisine Competition” held by WACS and were awarded a Silver Plate, a Bronze Plate, and 4 Excellent Work .

13 The four students Hsu Ya-hui, Yi Shih-yi, Dai Yu-hsuan, and Hsu Shan-min of Cultural Development Department participated in the project “Innovative Commercialization Competition—Nationwide University Finals” held by Center for Teaching and Learning  Resources in Central Taiwan on Saturday March 14, 2009 and were awarded the third place for the Group Section.

14 The student Lin Chi-hsiang of Hotel and Restaurant Management Department participated in “2009 Taiwan’s Watermelon Festival” on May 2009 and was awarded the champion in the Watermelon Carving Competition-Campus Section.

15  The students Yang Sheng-kai of Food Science and Applied Biotechnology Department and Yeh Kuo-tzen of Restaurant and Hotel Department participated in Asia’s 1^st  Culinary Cup” on September 1^st -5^th 2009 held at the Siam Paragon Mall in Bangkok, THAILAND.  There were more than 30 countries participating in this competition, which was an imitation of International Olympics.  In the items of Free Style Fruit ＆ Vegetable Carving Show Piece, the student Yang Sheng-kai of Food Science and Applied Biotechnology was awarded the one and only Super Gold Cup with full marks and a Gold Plate.  The student Yeh Kuo-tzen of Restaurant and Hotel Management Department was awarded a Gold Plate.  Both obtained the glories for our country.