ABOUT TUTech

Sutiyapron Kantala
Mar 20, 2019
2 min read

Brief history

Establishment

In August 1964, a group of dedicated educators formed a founding committee. These people were Tsung Tang, Chien Weng, Liang-Tien Chang, Han-Jen Chi, Ying-Yeh Liu, Shye Yu, Yao Huang, Shih-En Huang, Ching-Wen Tsai, Pao-Yuan Chao, Ruei-Che Lin, Hsun-Hao Hsu, Yuan-Tsai Weng, etc. On August 15th, the Board held the first meeting and elected Tsung Tang as the Chairman. In October, the Board of trustees was approved by the Ministry of Education.

In January, 1965, the school was named Private Tainan Junior College of Home Economics, with the approval of the Ministry of Education.

The names of school

- On June 1st, 1997, the school was upgraded to be the Private Tainan Woman's College of Arts & Technology, consisting of five-year Junior College.

- On March 5th, 1998, the college changed its name to Tainan Woman's College of Arts & Technology.

- On August 1st, 2006, the college changed its name to Tainan University of Technology.

- On October 1st, 2010, the university changed its Chinese name. English name remains the same.

Educational objective

Regarding “cultural creativity” as the core value, TUTech devote theselves to educate talents with the ability of “applicable practicing” and “humanistic technology” that conforms to the needs of the society and the industries. To fulfill this goal, they are positioned and advancing to a technology university of “cultural and creative teachings.”

Source: http://www.tut.edu.tw/files/13-1000-9096.php?Lang=en

Elucidation

The motto derives from The Analects of Confucius. In Confucius' opinion, if people learn without thinking, the learning would be in vain; if people do it the other way around, it would be extremely dangerous.

In addition, he said "For a noble person, there are nine things of which people think: in seeing, people think of understanding; in listening, people think of clarity; in countenance, people think of gentleness; in acting, people think of courtesy; in speech, people think of honesty; in serving, people think of respect; in doubt, people think of questioning; in anger, people think of difficulties; in obtaining, people think of righteousness". To conclude, in the process of knowledge acquisition, only when learning and thinking are equally emphasized can learners achieve the greatest accomplishments.