About ME - 國立中央大學機械工程學系

ABOUT ME

Our Department

Founded in 1977, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Central University has an excellent reputation in the engineering field. It is currently the largest department at NCU with 46 full-time faculty members, 4 technicians and 5 supporting staff members, and nearly 1200 students (620 in BS, 395 in MS and 185 in Ph.D.). Since its establishment, the department has been aiming at outstanding performance in teaching and researches and has hence become a vital part of College of Engineering. Many faculty members receive teaching and research awards from national and international communities.

Our curriculum is designed to be engaging and innovative. It allows students to have multi-disciplinary training in mechanical engineering. The undergraduate and graduate programs currently offer a broad range of courses in the following areas:

Solid Mechanics and Design
Advanced Materials and Precision Manufacturing
Fluid and Thermal Science
Automation and System Engineering
Opto-Mechatronics
Energy Engineering

In response to the increasing challenges from global environment and energy issues, new courses are conscientiously prepared to keep our programs up-to-date and relevant. Delivered by professional faculty, both the undergraduate programs and the graduate programs provide our students with the professional expertise, teamwork capability and effective leadership, which in all, make our graduates exceedingly competitive in their career development. In fact, our graduates are employed by many of the top corporations, governmental agencies, research institutes and universities in the nation.

Our department has the most active research programs, which range across the wide spectrum of Mechanical Engineering. Equipped with state-of-art facilities, we manage to afford extensive collaborations with governmental agencies, research institutes and industry. Our department also receives funds more than 2.3 million US dollars per year from both government and industry. The funding can functionally support most of our graduate students for their study.

We welcome all enquiries from prospective students with an interest in our programs. Please contact our office directly at +886 3 426-7300. You may also correspond with individual faculty members by e-mail, using the addresses shown on the faculty pages.

Our Program

Undergraduate

Our department has a comprehensive and innovative curriculum to provide students with professional education across a broad range of disciplines, including the area of electronics, computer modelling, opto-mechtronics, biomedical technology, material technology, energy engineering and green technology. There are three major areas for undergraduate students to focus on:

Specialization	Feature
Opto-mechatronics	Training students to be mechanical engineers with the design, operation and automatic control of opto-mechatronic systems.
Advanced materials and precision manufacturing	Giving students the knowledge and ability to integrate traditional mechanical engineering, advanced materials and precision manufacturing.
Design and Analysis	Offering students an integrated engineering training on design and analysis, and teaching students how to apply to solving real engineering problems.

In addition to knowledge-based courses, the hands-on activities, the cultivation of creativity, and the capstone courses are specially offered in our training.

Arranging undergraduate students to go to Hiroshima University, Southeastern University to have international academic interactions.

Graduate

Our Graduate School offers Master and PhD programs including the following areas:

Department / Graduate Institute	Program	Specialization
Mechanical Engineer	Master / Ph.D	Solid Mechanics and Design Advanced materials and precision manufacturing Thermal Fluid Engineering System Engineering
Opto-Mechatronics Engineering	Master / Ph.D	Mechatronic System Control Opto-Mechatronics
Energy Engineering	Master / Ph.D	Energy

Large research projects include the Design of the IC/PV/LED manufacturing equipment, Energy storage, Fuel cells, Clean coal technology, CO2 capture, Wind power systems, Energy saving , and Taiwan-Russia satellite. The average research budget from 2008 to 2010 is 3.3 million US dollars per year.

Each teacher publishes 2.7 pieces of SCI/SSCI publication per year.

Direction

How to arrive at NCU?

Getting to NCU

Traffic Map

How to arrive at Department of ME Building?

Our department locates at the west side of NCU campus, next to the sports field. From the NCU main entrance, following the direction of campus road to reach another side, then you can find the building of mechanical enginerring.

From the NCU side entrance, you must turn left and go straight, then soon you can see the location of department.