College Introduction
About Us
｜Establishing a Visio
｜Establishing a Visio
The overall development blueprint for the Design Institute includes its vision, goals, strategies, and current status. The mid-term development plan is based on the institute's vision: YunTech Design integrates technology leading the future.
｜Goals
(I) Cultivating Unique Design Talents
Each department will leverage its strengths to cultivate unique professional abilities in designers for the new era, strengthening Taiwan's design academic and practical capabilities and enhancing international competitiveness.
1. Based on the characteristics of each department, develop unique professional skills to cultivate talents with unique design expertise.
2. Integrate teaching resources, construct diverse and flexible learning paths, and cultivate design talents with interdisciplinary integration capabilities.
3. Develop professional teaching materials that meet industry needs, introduce industry case studies in teaching, and cultivate specialized design talents to meet industry demands.
4. Seek out enterprises with development potential to jointly develop teaching materials and methods, and cultivate design talents for high-end industries.
(II) Constructing an Industry Research and Development Hub (Technical)
Integrate faculty and resources from various departments within and outside the college, collaborate as teams to conduct design project research, promote various industry-academia cooperation projects, serve industry and society, and enhance the college's influence.
1. Encourage faculty to research practical issues that meet industry needs and promote research results to industry, enhancing the college's visibility. 2. Integrate faculty expertise to form cross-disciplinary R&D teams, secure corporate and government funding, and enhance the college's influence.
3. Regularly hold R&D results presentations to showcase teaching and R&D achievements and promote the practical application of design and R&D results.
4. Encourage faculty to write research papers and submit them to international journals to enhance the college's international academic standing.
(III) Creating a Sustainable Learning Environment
Integrate resources from the university, college, and departments, fully utilizing them in teaching, research, guidance, and services, especially providing a equitable learning environment for economically disadvantaged students.
1. Integrate resources from the university, college, departments, and centers, investing in teaching, research, and services to maximize resource utilization.
2. Actively seek funding support from relevant government departments to support the education of economically disadvantaged students and provide a equitable learning environment.
3. Actively explore cooperation with private enterprises, encouraging deeper collaboration in teaching and research to ensure the sustainability of industry-academia collaboration. 4. Encourage faculty to form research teams and participate in internationally sustainable projects, shaping the college's image of sustainable prosperity.
(IV) Establishing International Standing (international)
Establish international exchange channels, promoting design education, research, and industry-academia collaboration to the international level, enhancing the college's international visibility and influence, with the aim of becoming a world-class design college.
1. Develop internationalized curricula and dual-degree programs, recruit international/exchange students, and expand the international student body.
2. Organize international conferences/workshops, inviting international scholars to co-organize, enhancing international visibility.
3. Promote the internationalization of design journals, aiming to become SCI journals within five years.
4. Encourage students to participate in international competitions, invention exhibitions, and patent applications, enhancing international influence.
(V) Towards Yield-Based Governance
Based on the university's database, develop the college's data and analysis mechanisms, compiling teaching, learning, research, and service data as the basis for college planning, governance, and decision-making.
1. Encourage faculty and staff to learn and apply AI to assist in administrative tasks, improving efficiency.
Each department will leverage its strengths to cultivate unique professional abilities in designers for the new era, strengthening Taiwan's design academic and practical capabilities and enhancing international competitiveness.
1. Based on the characteristics of each department, develop unique professional skills to cultivate talents with unique design expertise.
2. Integrate teaching resources, construct diverse and flexible learning paths, and cultivate design talents with interdisciplinary integration capabilities.
3. Develop professional teaching materials that meet industry needs, introduce industry case studies in teaching, and cultivate specialized design talents to meet industry demands.
4. Seek out enterprises with development potential to jointly develop teaching materials and methods, and cultivate design talents for high-end industries.
(II) Constructing an Industry Research and Development Hub (Technical)
Integrate faculty and resources from various departments within and outside the college, collaborate as teams to conduct design project research, promote various industry-academia cooperation projects, serve industry and society, and enhance the college's influence.
1. Encourage faculty to research practical issues that meet industry needs and promote research results to industry, enhancing the college's visibility. 2. Integrate faculty expertise to form cross-disciplinary R&D teams, secure corporate and government funding, and enhance the college's influence.
3. Regularly hold R&D results presentations to showcase teaching and R&D achievements and promote the practical application of design and R&D results.
4. Encourage faculty to write research papers and submit them to international journals to enhance the college's international academic standing.
(III) Creating a Sustainable Learning Environment
Integrate resources from the university, college, and departments, fully utilizing them in teaching, research, guidance, and services, especially providing a equitable learning environment for economically disadvantaged students.
1. Integrate resources from the university, college, departments, and centers, investing in teaching, research, and services to maximize resource utilization.
2. Actively seek funding support from relevant government departments to support the education of economically disadvantaged students and provide a equitable learning environment.
3. Actively explore cooperation with private enterprises, encouraging deeper collaboration in teaching and research to ensure the sustainability of industry-academia collaboration. 4. Encourage faculty to form research teams and participate in internationally sustainable projects, shaping the college's image of sustainable prosperity.
(IV) Establishing International Standing (international)
Establish international exchange channels, promoting design education, research, and industry-academia collaboration to the international level, enhancing the college's international visibility and influence, with the aim of becoming a world-class design college.
1. Develop internationalized curricula and dual-degree programs, recruit international/exchange students, and expand the international student body.
2. Organize international conferences/workshops, inviting international scholars to co-organize, enhancing international visibility.
3. Promote the internationalization of design journals, aiming to become SCI journals within five years.
4. Encourage students to participate in international competitions, invention exhibitions, and patent applications, enhancing international influence.
(V) Towards Yield-Based Governance
Based on the university's database, develop the college's data and analysis mechanisms, compiling teaching, learning, research, and service data as the basis for college planning, governance, and decision-making.
1. Encourage faculty and staff to learn and apply AI to assist in administrative tasks, improving efficiency.
2. Establish a data analysis governance and decision-making mechanism for the college, serving as the basis for planning, governance, and decision-making.
3. Establish a document execution reminder mechanism to ensure all documents are completed within the specified timeframe.
4. Offer cross-domain AI courses, encouraging all faculty to engage in AI learning and effectively utilize AI in teaching.
｜Situation
National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, College of Design, encompasses various departments and graduate programs, including Industrial Design, Visual Communication Design, Architecture & Interior Design, Digital Media Design/In-service Master’s Program of Smart Design for Regional Revitalization, Creative Design, and Bachelor's Program & In-service Master’s Program of Smart Design for Regional Revitalization. Additionally, it offers Master's and Doctoral programs in Design.
Common required courses
| 院共同必修課程(共計11學分) | ||
| 課程名稱 | 學分數 | 課程簡介 |
| Introduction to Design | 3-0-3 | This course mainly explains the purpose and essence of design, and introduces various proper nouns and terms related to design. The content of the course may include: aesthetics, semiotics, color science, geometry, perspective, structural theory, graphics, human factors engineering and other subjects. |
| Artificial Intelligence and Design Applications | 1-2-2 | This course covers the basics of AI technology, machine learning, deep learning and other related technology training, and how to apply these technologies to design fields, such as illustration, photographic image generation, etc. In addition, the course will also emphasize the application of Design Thinking (Design Thinking) to enable students to understand how to apply AI technology to their daily lives through the methods of design thinking. |
| Design Aesthetics | 2-0-2 | This course is positioned as a basic research course in design aesthetics. It attempts to help students master the general aesthetic language by mastering the basic issues and discussion directions of aesthetics in the 20th century, and discuss the legality and appropriateness of these concepts in the design field. |
| Design Ethics and Laws | 2-0-2 | This course guides students from professional skills training in the digital media design industry to the field of team project management, and provides an introduction to relevant legal provisions and intellectual property rights. |
| Color Theory | 1-2-2 | This course will improve students' good feeling and application ability of color through the cognition and practice of color theory. The class method is to let students understand the theoretical knowledge related to color through narration, and let students use and observe it through practical operation. Color, enhance color acuity. |
| Life Observation and Documentary | 2-0-2 | This course will use design as an understanding of life. Through experience and observation, it will deeply touch people's feelings and understanding of external things. Help designers explore different aesthetics and meanings from real environments, and then cultivate professional capabilities in an open field. In the course, different design media, forms and methods are used to give the meaning and value of design through the connotation of personal life, so that students can enter the real social group from their own individuals. |
｜Characteristic development direction
The College of Design at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (NYUST) comprises departments of Industrial Design, Visual Communication Design, Architecture and Interior Design, Digital Media Design, and Creative Living Design, as well as Master's and Doctoral programs in Design. Its programs cover a comprehensive range of design fields, including graphic, three-dimensional, spatial, digital, and cultural and creative industries, forming a highly integrated design education system. The college also houses a Design Media Promotion Center to support teaching, research, and service, promoting industry-academia collaboration and emphasizing design promotion and industry service. In particular, it focuses on industry-academia collaboration and the cultivation of design talent, nurturing practical and applicable design professionals. The college is gradually developing three directions: "Cultural and Creative Design," "Digital Value-Added Design," and "Interdisciplinary Design," which have become key characteristics of NYUST's College of Design.
Furthermore, the College of Design leads students through workshops integrating various local practical concepts from perspectives such as traditional industries, digital technology, social welfare, business models, management, and smart agriculture. This allows students to step outside their comfort zones and, through the integration of ingenuity and practices from various fields and social industries, helps them break through existing conservative frameworks. The process allows each participating student to express their opinions, and through multiple interactions, the students gradually become more focused. In terms of design and aesthetics, and even the values and status symbols implied in the service, "emotional" values become an important consideration for students to demonstrate their thinking. This encourages YunTech students to become π-shaped talents with practical abilities in technology research and development and innovative service, setting a new benchmark for design education and helping YunTech become a responsible and intelligent university.
｜Future Prospect(1) Towards the international creation of a new vision of design:
a. Strengthen the international competitiveness of the college, enhance the international vision and create a new model of technical and vocational education;
b. Establish a cross-border cooperation mechanism, establish sister universities, and jointly build an environment for international research and industry-academia cooperation;
c. Encourage participation in international design activities to create the top peak of YunTech.
(2) Establish a life-wide learning policy:
a. Encourage the promotion of MOOCs and digital online courses;
b. Actively apply for cross-school credits to achieve two-way learning performance;
c. Enrich the classrooms and laboratory equipment of each department, and implement teaching that combines theory and practice;
d. To strengthen the beautification of the School and the improvement of performance facilities to achieve the objectives of environmental education;
e. Regularly review the curriculum structure and appropriately allocate common compulsory and interdisciplinary courses to nurture diverse design talents;
f. Establish the characteristics of the development of the college and promote the integration of cross-discipline and cross-faculty and department-based learning.
(3) Encourage industry-university cooperation and enhance students' competitiveness:
a. Encourage all departments to organize special design exhibitions for graduating students to promote students' design achievements and increase employment opportunities;
b. Encourage industry-academia cooperation to enhance students' competitiveness in the workplace;
c. Encourage teachers to seek research proposals from the National Science Council and other ministries;
d. Combine the two design centers and various departments to actively promote industry-university cooperation and design services.