Kuo-En Chang


Kuo-En Chang is the president of Tunghai University and former president of National Taiwan Normal University.

Life

Born in 1958, Chang grew up in a fishing village of Keelung, Taiwan. After junior high school, he gave up "the chance to study at the Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University and chose to join the at National Taiwan Institute of Technology for professional training." After the national compulsory military service, Chang spent a year on professional practice. He not only worked on lathes but also utility poles. Afterwards, Chang resumed his studies in the Department of Electronic Engineering.
Chang then switched to the fields of computation in the at National Taiwan University, where he received an M.S. in 1986 and a Ph.D. in 1990. After graduation, Chang joined the NTNU, where he integrated computation with education and launched virtual learning, digital learning, and mobile learning. His endeavor in Elearning has also won him a patent in "The Software Structure for Interactive Learning on the Internet" in Taiwan.
At NTNU, Chang had been the director of Computer Center, the director of the, and the vice president. His excellence in academic research has won him numerous awards from
the National Science Council and the . He has been the principal of NTNU since 22 February 2010.

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