National Chiao Tung University (NCTU; Chinese: 國立交通大學)

 Taiwan's leading public research universities located in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

 It founded in 1896 (the 22nd year of the Kuanghsu Era of the Ching Dynasty).
 The school’s original name was Nanyang College.
 In 1912, it was renamed the Shanghai Vocational College of Higher Education.
 In 1921, it was renamed again Chiao Tung University.
 In 1937, it was renamed once more National Chiao Tung University (NCTU).
 In 1958, the university began a new in Hsinchu with the establishment of NCTU
Institute of Electronics
 In 1967, the Institute of Electronics was reorganized to be the College of
Engineering
 In 1979, the school’s present name was restored
The NCTU Seal
 The NCTU seal first appeared during the 1920s.
 Meanings of the current NCTU standard seal
Design Figure
1. Anvil in the middle with Chinese and
Western books above
2. Three Alphabets: E (Engineering), S
(Science), A (Administration)
3. Three iron rings hanging from the
pointed end of the anvil
4. A hammer leaning diagonally across the
front of the anvil
5. The date 1896
6. The 60 teeth of the gear
Meaning
One must thoroughly study China and the
West.
The three major areas taught at our school.
We are interlinked and indivisible with
sincere harmony.
Theory and practice receive equal emphasis.
The date that the school was founded.
The number means a cycle of 60 years. The
circular shape with the teeth represents the
“heavenly stems and earthly branches.” And
the entire gear implies the ancient proverb,
“the movement of heaven is full of power, so
the superior man makes himself strong and
untiring.”
Father of Chiao Tung University

Hsuan-Wai Sheng (盛宣懷先生)

 Presidency：1896~1905
 The founder of Nanyang College, with the reputation of the “Father of Chiao
Tung University”.
 Core Ideas: encouraging students to cultivate their mind and absorb new
knowledge from the West.
 Character: Being progressive in thinking, seeking truth from facts, and holding a
lifelong ambition to “do great things” and “become an official of high ranks.”
 Contributions: Building a solid foundation for telecommunications, railroads,
steamboats, and mines at the time, and having been called the “Father of Modern
Industry”.
 NCTU Flag

Current NCTU Flag The NCTU flag in the early years

after the university’s re-
establishment in Taiwan

 The flag was designed by two alumni, Mr. Shan-Tung Lu and Mr. Po-Chen Wu,
in 1958.
 The figures were basically the same as those used by Shanghai Jiao Tong
University.
 The flag featured a yellow design over a blue field, and the Chinese name of the
university was written across the top in regular white characters.
 There were 24 teeth in the gear that made up the rim of the university seal.
The three yellow horizontal stripes represented the three campuses in Shanghai,
Peking, and Tangshan, which indicated the close relationship among them (at that
time, in mainland China, Xian Jiao Tong University had not been established yet).

The NCTU Motto

The school emphasizes the precept of pragmatism for the idea has been mentioned
constantly in the mottos:

Learn and work Seek the truths Absorb the new to look
practically” from facts” far ahead, and work
(Vocational (NCTU, 1930s), pragmatically”
College, 1904- (handwriting of the
1912) former President, Hung-
Hsun Ling, 1974)
The First Minicomputer Made in Taiwan

This computer was under construction for three years and was completed in 1971.

 There are five units in the computer: pulse pattern generator, memory unit, control
unit, I/O unit, and arithmetic unit.
 Basic circuit elements include core memory, small scale integrated circuit,
transistor, diode, and numerical display tube.
 The memory unit is composed of 1248 cores of size 0.05² each. Each core can
store one bit of information.
 The control unit is composed of 36 ×6 cores of size 0.255² each. Micro
instructions are stored in it.
NCTU’s Firsts (Computer Field)

The First Autonomous

Land Vehicle with
Computer Vision in
Taiwan, 1988.

 In 1961, the first digital computer in Taiwan was introduced in NCTU

 NCTU has become a pioneer in the field of Computer Science and has many
related leading accomplishments in Taiwan, including:

 1970 The first university to organize a computer teaching and research

group
 1971 Implementing the first minicomputer
 1973 Implementing the first medium-sized Chinese keyboard (world-
leading)
 1975 Implementing the first microcomputer system
 1981 Implementing the first programmable industrial robot
 1982 Inventing the first automatic Chinese seal identification system
(world-leading)
 1986 Implementing the first full-page composition system for Chinese
newspapers
 1988 Implementing the first autonomous land vehicle with computer
vision
 1992 Setting up the first optical fiber network in student dorms (world-
leading)