Research and Development Center

The university's development focuses on the fields of "Health Biotechnology," "Medical Care," "Green Energy Technology," "Plasma Technology," "Design Services," and "Smart Vehicles." To encourage and guide faculty members in engaging in industry-academic research and development work, the university emphasizes the enhancement of research and development capabilities and the increase in the applied value of industrial technology. The university supports the transformation of distinctive research Centers, gradually establishing practical and applied research and development Centers. This approach leverages existing cutting-edge research capabilities to support key industries, enhancing industrial competitiveness. To date, a total of 14 corresponding school-level and college-level research Centers have been established. Among them, there are ten school-level research Centers. Additionally, there are four college-level research Centers: Health Promotion Products, Corporate Excellence Services and Training, Innovative Service Design, and Petrochemical Key Technology Testing.

As for the development of wearable devices this year, the extremely low-light imaging technology developed by the MCUT team is capable of detecting infrared light that cannot be seen with the naked eye through the combination of OLED, transparency electrode, and “near-infrared light sensors,” thus expanding human sight’s perception capability. In the future, this product can be used in biomedicine imaging, privacy loophole detection, and even in the military. It has been published in major journals like Nature.

Research Performance

MCUT encourages teachers to actively publish academic papers by implementing various incentive measures. As a result, the number of journal papers continues to increase. The number of SCI (Science Citation Index)/SSCI (Social Science Citation Index) papers increased from 423 in 2021 to 491 in 2023, reflecting a growth rate of 16.1%. The number of papers published by teachers per capita ranked 1^st among all universities of technology in Taiwan in 2022 and 2023. As for the quality of these papers, the mean Impact Factor (IF) increased from 5.26 in 2021 to 5.95 in 2023, showing a growth rate of 13.1%.

Participation in Government Research Projects

MCUT encourages teachers to actively pursue research projects from government departments and commissions and allocates resources to shape research characteristics. In recent years, our teachers have acquired various types of NSTC projects, including general research projects, new employee research projects, projects encouraging vocational and technical colleges to engage in practical research, industry-academia cooperation projects, and industry-academia technical alliance cooperation projects. Additionally, projects from the Ministry of Education include cultivating female R&D talents in STEM fields at colleges and universities and establishing regional industrial talent and technology incubation bases. Other government projects include project-oriented scholarships and grants, industry-academia projects, academic research projects, entrusted training projects, and various projects.

Patents Obtained in 2023

MCUT attaches importance to “Learn to Practice.” In 2023, MCUT received a considerable number of patents in the applications of photovoltaics, semiconductor thin film, biomedicine industry, sustainable circulation, etc., including 4 USA patents, 1 Japan patent, and 13 Taiwan patents. The university continually forged ahead in the fields of battery, thin film, communication, image recognition, and industrial security through big data monitoring. All MCUT teachers and students will make continual efforts for the future of human society from a professional and practical perspective. We can guarantee that all our innovative achievements can be fully safeguarded through patent application. In addition to promoting industrial cooperation and technology transfer, we can effectively convert innovations to actual products or solutions, an important approach to cultivating our teachers' and students' innovation ability and practical skills.

Honors and Recognition in 2023

1. In 2023, Prof. Yu-Ching Huang from the Department of Materials Engineering won “The Academic Research Innovation Award” and the Innovation & Incubation Center won “The Excelsior Award” in the 20^th National Innovation Award.
2. In 2023, MCUT participated in the “Taiwan Innotech Expo” with ten exhibition works and won 4 gold medals, four silver medals, and two bronze medals.
3. Times Higher Education (THE) Asia University Rankings 2023: MCUT ranked 401^st-500^th in Asia, 20^th among Taiwan’s universities (tied with National Chung Hsing University), 4^th among all universities of technology, and 1^st among all private universities of technology in Taiwan.
4. Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2023: MCUT ranked 401^st-600^th globally, 14^th among Taiwan’s universities, 4^th among all universities of technology, and 1^st among all private universities of technology in Taiwan.
5. In 2023, the amount per capita received from the NSTC national university and college research project was NT$370,000, which ranked MCUT fourth among all universities of technology and first among all private universities of technology in Taiwan.
6. In 2023, with regard to the number of NSTC university and college student research projects obtained by teachers as 0.18 per capita, MCUT ranked 1^st among all universities of technology in Taiwan.
7. In 2023, as announced by the Ministry of Education, the number of public and private industry-academia projects executed by teachers from universities and technologies per capita in Taiwan ranked MCUT first among all universities of technology in Taiwan.
8. In 2023, with respect to the amount of interests derived from intellectual property of universities of technology in Taiwan per capita as announced by the Ministry of Education, MCUT ranked the 5^th place among all universities of technology and the 2^nd place among all private universities of technology in Taiwan.
9. Prof. Pin-Yi Chen from the Biomedicine PhD Program and Distinguished Prof. Ting-Yu Liu from the Department of Materials Engineering won extra superior awards, respectively, in Industry-Academia Achievement Briefing Group and Poster Group of “Industry-Academia Cooperation Project Achievement Publication and Performance Assessment Meeting” organized by the Department of Engineering and Technologies of NSTC in 2023.
10. Assoc. Prof. Yu-Ching Huang from the Department of Materials Engineering and Assistant Prof. Yu-Feng Wu from the General Education Center won the “Outstanding Young Scholar Research Project” of NSTC in 2023.
11. In 2023, the achievement of an organic sensor developed through cooperation between Director Shun-Wei Liu from the Organic Electronics Research Center and Assoc. Prof. Yu-Ching Huang won the “2023 FutureTec Award”, making MCUT the only university winning this award among all universities of technology in Taiwan.
12. In 2023, with respect to the number of SCI papers published per capita, MCUT ranked 1^st among all universities of technology in Taiwan.
13. Chair Prof. Chun-Cheng Yang from Battery Research Center of Green Energy won the 2023 “World’s Top 1% Scholars in Energy Research by Stanford University”.
14. In 2023, according to “2022 Scientific Impact Rankings” of Stanford University, eight researchers of MCUT were included in the World’s Top 2% Most-cited Scientists (Prof. Chun-Cheng Yang and Prof. Ya-Shih Shou from the Battery Research Center of Green Energy, Prof. Chia-Hung Su and Prof. Tsung-Hung Liu from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Prof. Chih-Wei Li from the Department of Materials Engineering, Prof. Hua-Pin Chen from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Prof. Manner from the Biomedicine PhD Programme and Research Fellow Tzara from the Battery Research Center of Green Energy), ranking the fourth place among all universities of technology and the first place among all private universities of technology in Taiwan in terms of number of listed teachers.