The implementation of the first stage of the Higher Education Sprout project laid a solid foundation for STUST (107-108 years). In 2020, there were significant quantitative results in teaching innovation and efficiency enhancement, featured R&D and academia-industry collaboration, higher education accessibility, and university social responsibility. These implementation results and highlights are described as follows.

The Achievements of Implementing Teaching Innovation and Elevating Teaching Quality

●Promote multiple teaching innovation models and enhance learning  interests of students

Promote teaching innovation models such as PBL,cross-school learning, learning by doing, learning outside the classroom, industry-university co-education, community integration, learning autonomy and so on. With regard to teaching innovation and efficiency enhancement, 47% faculty successfully adopted innovative teaching principles. In order to encourage Interaction between teachers and students in the classroom, NTD 3 million digital currency "South Taiwan Dollar" issued every year, it can be used on campus and 7-11. In 2020, South Taiwan dollars were issued to 3,430 courses, used by 11,566 students, which effectively increasing students’ willingness to participate in discussions in class.

In2020, the TA review mechanism has been amended, TA is used to assist in the basic courses of the lower grades, and assisted teachers to implement A and B courses. Expect TA can effectively help students better learning course. In 2020, the number of TA is 703.

●Comprehensive classroom optimization and construction of characteristic practice place

In the 107-109 academic year, NTD 10.38 million was invested in the construction of 87 classroom interactive environments. In addition, Luban workshops, similar production-line factories, creative thinking design workshops, smart financial laboratories and other characteristic practice sites have been built.

●Improve basic skills of students in Chinese and English

The improvement rate of students' Chinese reading and writing ability reached 70.15%, and passed the percentage of English-language graduation qualifications is 90%.

●promoted interdisciplinary learning

In order to increase the talents of students, and to have more diversified choices of courses, and to cultivate cross-field knowledge integration or second expertise beyond specialized courses, we had constructed a perfect cross-disciplinarily learning mechanism. In2020, STUST has also successfully promoted interdisciplinary learning through the modularization of courses, resulting in 4,846 students who have studied courses cross-disciplinarily.

●Development of curriculum innovation for engineering talent cultivation

The training of talents in the hoops-and-bucket(箍桶) curriculum is to construct curriculum planning through practical topic orientation ,and the courses emphasize teamwork. Those students participating in this course cultivation method are significantly better performances than the general course students in the graduation thematic evaluation.

●Promote innovation and entrepreneurship education

The school builds an ecological environment for innovation and entrepreneurship, guides students to create ideas, and develop toward industrial applications. Renovate the comprehensive cultivation space for entrepreneurship education, link the existing hardware equipment, manpower, the resources and capacity of department and each center in the school, and provide a world-class training and guidance environment for domestic new industries. From2017 to 2020, the number of students enrolled in innovation and entrepreneurship courses increased from 1,600 to 1,884, an increase of about 18%.

In 2020, STUST’s student won the gold medal in the painting and decorating category of the National Skills Competition.


The Department of Hospitality handles the pastry exchange activities in conjunction with the "NA-Tai Dollar". The contestants got inspiration from the questionnaire and won the silver medal in the competition

The Achievements of Developing School Features

• Develop "5 + 2 + 2 + 1" professional features

In the "5+2+2+1" innovation industry, Biotechnology and Medicine, Asia Silicon Valley, Smart Machinery, Green Energy, Digital Innovation, and Cultural Technology six areas have selected as the school’s development focus. In these fields, a number of patented technologies have been successfully developed, and a total of 32 pieces of technology transfer worth NTD 8.4 million were obtained in 2020. Examples are as follows:

(1) Small molecule new drug development

“Chinese Herbal Medicine Technology R&D Center” has successfully developed new curcumin derivatives for Alzheimer’s disease, and has also founded a spin-off company” Merry Life Biomedical Company Ltd.” The company raised NTD 250 million. In 2021, it will apply for the US new drug development certification.

(2) AIOT technology and application

Successfully developed the "Falling Torso Image Recognition Technology", which won the Medical Quality Mark of the Industrial Application Group of the "2020 National Medical Quality Award". Successfully developed a "drug identification system" , which is expected to be introduced into the pharmacy department of hospital to improve the efficiency of pharmacy dispatching personnel's adjustment and verification.

(3) Develop smart cutting and visual calibration machine

In cooperation with shoe’s machine factory - Yinghui Machinery, which developed commercial intelligent cutting and visual calibration tool machines. In addition, developed a vector object expansion and typesetting patented technology, which won the gold medal of the 2020 Taiwan Innovation Technology Expo Invention Competition. This technology has been applied to shoe factories in overseas.

• Promote internationalization

In order to expand international perspectives of stustdents, STUST actively promotes students’ internships in overseas. In the 108 academic year, the number of students going to overseas for internship reached 116.

• Promote R&D and academia-industry collaboration initiatives

To develop school featured research programs, STUST stimulated faculty to organize interdisciplinary R&D teams, and in so doing the sharing of technologies and resources. To date, 18 R&D centers have been established. Furthermore, STUST organized and arranged resources from industry partners for utilization by faculty and students to establish the “Industry-academia Collaborative Joint R&D centers” on campus. To date, 5 centers have been established.

STUST has won the ninth consecutive "Industry-University Cooperation Excellent Unit" by the Chinese Society of Engineers



The student's creation-"Hando" assistive device, won the 2020 IDEA Gold Award in the United States, and also won the 16th outstanding technical and vocational education award.

The Achievements of Making Resources More Public

• Enhancing the admission opportunities of financially disadvantaged students

In addition to increasing the admission rate of financially disadvantaged students, STUST subsidizes the costs of transportation and accommodation of selected students to attend interviews on campus.

• Establish a financial aid system for students who are disadvantaged

STUST has established learning counseling and performance tracking for financially disadvantaged students, and has established a self-learning performance reward mechanism. During the COVID-19 epidemic, an online English learning platform has been added and a book club has been established to encourage students to improve their self-cultivation and writing skills through daily reading. In 2020, STUST raised NTD 5.94 million  for financially disadvantaged students

In 2020, STUST was awarded by the Ministry of Education as a school with excellent performance in improving the schooling assistance mechanism.

The Achievements of University Social Responsibility

• Shaping the characteristics of the school to promote community care provision

This was achieved by providing courses and activities, which utilized departmental expertise to resolve social issues, and also created impetus for community care provision. In2020, we offers 70 USR courses to connect local and sustainable development issues, and about 2,100 students participate in community-based learning and professionally introduce USR action plans.

The three departments of STUST cooperated to shoot videos and share them on youtube, leading the community to care about local issues.

• Establish a regional center to share teaching resources