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TKU HAS WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF NATIONAL TAEKWONDO TOURNAMENT AGAIN!

TKU Taekwondo Team won the Gold Medal for two years in a row of the B group of College Level in the 2007 National Taekwondo Tournament on May 19 and 20. They will join the World University Taekwondo Championship in July to win the title for our country. Hung chun-peng (junior, Department of Information and Communication), the team captain, announced with great joy, “It feels great to win again! I have forgotten all the pain I had during the practice!”

TKU HARMONICA CLUB WON THE ADVANCED AWARD OF NATIONAL COLLEGIATE STUDENT CLUB EVALUATION

TKU Harmonica Club joined the National Collegiate Student Club Evaluation, held by the Ministry of Education, and won the Advanced Award in both academic and artistic categories.

TKU ALUMNI’S DEVOTIONS SATISFY 95% OF EMPLOYERS

In the administrative meeting last Friday, Min-nan Chen, Director of Office of Alumni Service and Resource Development (OASRD), reported on the results of the survey on the working conditions of TKU alumni (graduating in 2006) and business employers’ satisfaction with their performance, which reaches 88.2% in the category of “overall performance” 95% in “devotions” Besides these two indices, TKU alumni’s achievements in the aspects including the sense of responsibility, cooperativeness, use of information technology, active learning, efficiency and stability, and flexibility all win degree of recognition higher than 80%. 43.4% of the surveyed employers prefer TKU to other universities’ alumni. These results conform to the CHEERS’s survey on enterprises’ positive evaluation of TKU alumni in the aspects of “Team Spirit” and “Willing to Learn”, but show a difference in “Stability and Stamina” (79.8%). As to the criteria of hiring employees, 32.4% of the employers see “ Professional Knowledge and Skills” as the most important, and the percentage of satisfaction with TKU alumni in this category only reaches 75.5%, and 53.2%, the lowest, in “Foreign Language Skills”

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING PASSED IEET CERTIFICATION AGAIN

Department of Civil Engineering passed IEET’s (Institute of Engineering Education Taiwan) “Certification of Engineering and Technology Education” in the 95th and 96th academic year, with valid time for two years. This is the second time that Department of Civil Engineering passes the same certification.

THE AWARD CEREMONY OF 2007 TKU CRAZY AND CREATIVE THOUGHT CONTEST WAS HELD AT V101 ON MAY 22

2006 ACADEMIC YEAR TKU WATER ATHLETIC AND OPEN SOCCER

The 2006 Academic Year TKU Water Athletic ended perfectly last Saturday. Lin Chi-wen (freshman, Dept. of Information Management) won three woman champion awards of B section in the contest of 50 M breaststroke, 100M breaststroke, and 100M freestyle. Chan Ching-yuen from Dept. of Chemical and Material Engineering was the male champion of B section in both 50M and 100M freestyle.

FOODS AND GAMES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES WEEK

The annual Foreign Languages Week gets started cheerfully. In addition to awards-giving and various dancing performances, there is a cultural exhibition on the Poster Street, as well as “Conquer the Earth” game and “Eating King” activities to amuse the students. After a brief speech made by Dr. Sung Mei-hua, Dean of College of Foreign Languages and Literatures, cultural dances and music performances from all six Departments of the College (English, Japanese, French, German, Russian, and Spanish) commence the colorful and multi-lingual week.

DRAMA PERFORMANCES FROM 4 DEPARTMENTS EARNED APPLAUSES

EURC LECTURE SERIES: CZECH REPRESENTATIVE TO GIVE SPEECH THIS WEEK

The European Union Research Center (EURC) has scheduled 7 lecture series, “European Union, European Union members and European Integration.” EU representatives stationed in Taiwan and local scholars are invited to talk about current situations of European Union and various countries of Europe. Welcome teachers and students of the whole school to participate in!

TAMKANG FORUM HELD TODAY

College of International Studies will hold the Tamkang Forum at Ching-sheng International Conference Hall at 9:40 am, May 28th. Zhao Quan-sheng, Chair of East Asian Research Center of American University, and TKU’s teachers are invited to discuss “Th...

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY WORKING ON INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION WITH UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI

Department of Educational Technology invited Mr. Gary D. Westergren, the manager of research and development laboratory of University of Missouri, and his assistant Mr. Neeley Current to give a lecture of operation introduction on “interface-testing tool to test software Morae” last Monday (May 21st).

RUSSIAN ASTRONAUT GIVING SPEECH IN TKU THIS WEEK

Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering and Department of Aerospace Enginering hold 2007 Taiwan and Tussia Information and Space Technology Seminar for 2days at Chung-ling Chemistry Hall (from May 31st). Russian astronaut Dr. Yuri M. Baturin is invited to discuss new space information with local scholars.

DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES AND DECISION MAKING INVITING PROFESSIONAL SCHOLARS FOR THE SEMINAR

Department of Management Sciences and Decision Making will hold ”2007 Management Science and Decision Making International Seminar” on June 2nd. Scholars from United States, Japan, India, and Thailand, etc. will all be invited. The conference will be...