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| Mission for Education |
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| Prospects of the Academy |
| According to Article 16 of The University Law
and Article 13 of the Academy's Organization Regulations,
an "Academic Development Committee of the ROC
Naval Academy" and an "Academic Development Task Force"
should be established first for the Academy's development.
Work will be done according to the timetable. An overall development
goal will be set after our due consideration. The development plans for all school units
will be completed according to our short-term, medium-term and long-term strategies. Furthermore, a
regular assessment will be conducted, in order to make a necessary and
timely adjustment. |
| A. Educational Goal:
The Academy's educational goal is to integrate philosophy and science
into military education. By receiving instruction and discipline,
cadets are educated to be modern navy
officers with technological knowledge, logical
thinking, endless creativity and leadership capability.
which will benefit them no matter what difficulty they face at work.
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| B. Developmental Goal
The Academy's development plan is to seek excellence in higher miltary education, so
establishing new courses such as ocean
acoustics anti-submarine warfare, electromagnetic
detection system, chain of command and vessel dynamic
system is the goal we'll make efforts to achieve. Besides, we put
much emphasis on cadets' professional knowledge and cultivation of officer's characteristics
and skills, academics and ethics
are emphasized, so that the Academy's double role
and value of a professional academy and a technology
powerhouse can be fulfilled.
(I) Medium-term Objectives (within 5 years):
1.Build a "STS modular program and teaching" model.
Oriented to the effective learning of cadets, the
model should incorporate science, technology, society
modular teaching approach to stimulate cadets' interest
in learning, and nurture the independent thinking
and lifelong learning ability and habit.
2. Improving hardware and software facilities for the development
of key programs:
(1)Department of Applied Science: Establish the Navy Applied
Science Research Center to provide advice and ideas on teaching
concerns in technology and applied
chemistry. Support the basic science education
of various programs offered by other different departments,
the faculty of this research center can play the role of think-tank to the Academy.
(2)Department of Information Management: Develop
the chain of command system with "Information Management
program" and "Information Engineering program" to
equip cadets with basic capability in computer strategics,
chain of command, navy tactics, warfare and decision-making
analysis.
(3)Department of Marine Science: Develop ocean acoustics
and anti-submarine warfare program for understading ocean
acoustic environment and sound wave transmission characteristics
and cultivating cadets' professional knowledge in ocean
acoustics and anti-submarine.
(4)Department of Electrical Engineering: Develop
electromagnetic detection system with "Naval Weapon
System program" to offer basic education in naval
technology. Integrated program is also offered to establish
cadets' theoretical basis in all missile control system
(including sub-system).
(5)Department of Marine Mechanical Engineering:
Develop vessel dynamic system with "Naval Mechanic
and Dynamic System program" to offer basic education
in programs related to fleet dynamics and mechanics,
so that cadets may learn to operate principle of
vessel mechanical equipment and dynamic system.
For building up the program characteristics,
courses of other departments and sections are also
integrated to boost professional development:
(1)Tactics Section: Establish a professional teaching
environment for naval marine warfare and anti-submarine
warfare.
(2)Marine Engineering Section: Establish a professional
teaching environment for naval engineering dynamics.
(3)Department of Political Science: Establish the
naval military and social science research center.
(4)Department of Literature and History: Establish
marine military humanistic educational research think-tank.
(5)Department of Foreign Languages: Establish a
diversified interactive teaching environment for learning
foreign languages.
3.Promote Distant Learning and Computer-assisted
Instruction (CAI):
Establish a network teaching database and video-on-demand
lecture playback system. Develop "synchronous" and
"non-synchronous" teaching capability. Integrate the
"distant learning" system to build cooperation environment
for local institutions, so that educational resources
can be shared and teaching quality enhanced.
4.Establish the "mentor system":
Expand the scope of counseling work to the building
of relationship between the teachers, brigade staff
and the cadets (among seniors and juniors). By this
educational model and counseling system, the concept
of "all-round education" is fulfilled, and an "all-round
care" counseling system is established.
5.Promote inter-school strategic alliance:
The Academy has established strategic alliance with
civilian universities and institutions to be educational
partner based on the belief of resources sharing and
information exchanges. The Academy's teaching and
engineering profession is enhanced by engaging in
resources integration and educational cooperation.
6.Acquisition of training vessel:
It is planned to acquire the Academy's exclusive training
vessel, in order to meet the needs of the cadets'
navigation, engineering and related training. Cadets
will have intensive training on the vessel to improve
the learning effect, and cadets' interaction with
the fleet can be enhanced, so that they will develop
a sense of honor and a sense of belonging to the team
of a vessel.
7.Improve library function:
Increase book collection of the library and the collection
of professional military and marine books. Establish
an enquiry and user interface of the database, so
that long-distance information service can be provided.
8.Medium-term campus planning:
(1)Plan to build the education and military exhibition
hall and gallery of the Academy and the Navy. By a delicate
and special design of the exterior wall gallery and
the exhibition hall, in combination with overall community
construction, the Academy will enjoy a much-enhanced
image, which will greatly help cadet recruitment.
(2)Exquisite design of exercise park:
Build a comprehensive and diversified sports and
exercise park, to provide training and recreational
facilities for the Academy's faculty, and cadets as
well as
for the Navy. It is planned to include an indoor swimming
pool up to international standard, an integrated stadium,
an outdoor basketball court, and indoor/outdoor rock
climbing facilities, etc.
(3)Plan to build a research building, with individual
research rooms for instructors, libraries for various
departments and sections, conference rooms and multi-purpose
classrooms (conference rooms), etc. to improve the teaching
and research environment.
9.Upgrade administrative information system:
Upgrade teaching and administrative service and improve the information operation environment.
Enhance teaching and research effectiveness and increase
administrative efficiency.
10.Consolidate ethic education and nurture academically
and ethically capable cadres:
(1)Draft the "Ethic Education" proposal: Cadets
are taught the true meaning of "external discipline"
through the process of "inspirational" ethic education,
and with the awareness, they will internalize it into
the fulfillment of "self discipline." As such, modern
naval officers with integrity, excellent morality,
both civilian and military skills, and both academic
and ethical capability are nurtured.
(2)Plan the "Military Ethics" program: Strengthen
cadets' cognitive power and critical thinking on "military
ethics" and philosophy, to cultivate their leadership
ability and make them outstanding navy leaders with
a broad vision and humanistic quality.
11.Establish Naval Science Research
Institute:
Referring to the model of Central Police University
that establishes a number of research institutes for
all kinds of police professions, we intend to establish
a Naval Science Research Institute, with ocean acoustics
section and information electronic warfare section
under it. Then equipment and teachers will be gradually
instituted in order to enhance educational capability
and quality of the Academy. It is expected to develop
a comprehensive and consistent educational system
with the characteristics of the Navy, and to train
staff and officers with the ability of
high-tech command, management and technology.
(II) Long-term Objectives (within 10 years):
The long-term development objective is to become a
superb military academy with first-rate military
standard, to exert the smart consultation function,
accommodating both "marine science academics"
and "naval military profession" in education and training.
It adopts a diversified academic system that forms
a complete and professional military education network
through lifelong learning and continued education
that links the school, the fleet and the society.
1.Long-term campus planning:
Continue the educational investment in the software
and hardware infrastructure of various departments
and sections according to their respective key program
development, and hence the overall infrastructure
of the entire campus. Improve military and academic
teaching and research facilities, and build an integrated
administrative building and various department buildings.
2.Establish integrated academic program system:
Promote the establishment of integrated academic program
system according to the legislature and amendment
of the University Law. Cadets select an academic program
to study after enrollment, and be conferred the degree
in order to supply the needs
of the Navy for human resource. |
| C.Developmental Focus and
Strategy
The Academy sets down its key development strategies
and specific plans according to the aforesaid goals
and objectives. Such strategies and plans are executed
by all school units after approval:
(I) Energy Energy-filled Core Value
1.Academic system:
(1)Multi-level educational system: Cadets are recruited
to a variety of classes including formal class, professional
class, credit-based master class, and continued education
class.
(2)Modular program system: Promote academic program
system and modular program studies so that cadets
enjoy greater flexibility in their studies and may
know how to
choose their own professional development.
(3)Integrated program system under plan: Cadets
do not stream into different departments when they
enroll, and they study professional programs to get
the degree.
(4)Military research mechanism: Apply for establishment
of the Naval Science Research Institute with ocean
acoustics section and information electronic warfare
section under it. This will substantially increase
the academic standard and research level of the Navy's
basic academy.
(5)Education capacity planning: The Academy covers
an area of 30 hectares and teaching facilities include
the
general classrooms, specialized classrooms, laboratories,
teaching buildings, quarters, library, mess halls,
student union, sport center, swimming pool, stadium,
etc. The classrooms have a capacity of 1288 persons,
and quarters has a capacity of 988 persons. A reasonable
plan of the education capacity is 988 cadets (including
10 to 15 research students each in the ocean acoustics
section and information electronic warfare section).
2.Administrative support:
(1)Create characteristics of the library and strengthen
library function: Establish online search system
add access to local and overseas famous libraries,
join membership of think tanks and database websites,
produce user manual, extend opening hours, build snack
kiosk, organize library week activities.
(2)Professionalism in education administration:
Open the education administration program, credit-based
education program in collaboration with the Kaohsiung
Normal University to boost professional ability of
the administrators.
(3)Digitization of administrative work: Establish
education administration information system, which
includes teaching plans, regulations, cadet result
enquiry system and student affairs system, online
administrative work, etc.
(4)Stress administrative ethics and set down the
code of administrative ethics.
(II)Characteristics Professional competitiveness
that rests on key characteristics.
1.Environment and facilities:
(1)Overall planning of the campus: sectional construction
by departments in the overall campus design (Not easy
to move and precision equipment is located at original
laboratories.)
(2)Improvement of teaching facilities:
A.Medium and long-term hardware and software investment
as the planning core
B.Construct teaching database and network transmission
system.
C. Establish meeting administration system, decision-making
information system and distant learning system.
(3)Exquisite sports park:
A. Plan to build an indoor standard swimming pool.
B. Install indoor/outdoor rock climbing facilities.
C. Integrated stadium and basketball court
2.Teacher qualification:
(1)Strengthen teacher qualification structure: Adopt
stringent recruitment procedures and set down minimum
requirement on teachers' performance. Teacher qualification
has to consider the needs of the five departments
and general education development and should be able
to reinforce the Academy's characteristics in ocean
acoustics and anti-submarine warfare, electromagnetic
detection system, command chain and vessel dynamic
system, etc. Moreover, fleet-land exchanges among
staff and instructors will be strengthened in order
to introduce quality brigade cadres and make an effective
incorporation of new experiences and new ideas of
the fleet with military education.
(2)Improve teacher quality and standard: Enhance
the Academy's teacher qualification in a gradual way
by improving teaching and research environment, adjusting
teacher qualification structure, realizing teacher
promotion, strengthening teachers' service evaluation,
increasing cadet quality, etc.
A.Continue to educate officers for the PhD degree in naval profession
and send candidates with PhD degree preferentially
to the Academy to maintain the source of educators.
B.Improve research environment and plan to establish
the Naval Science Research Institute and the teaching
research building in order to provide teachers with
assistant research manpower, encourage teachers' academic
research activities and substantially improve the
existing teaching and research environment.
C.Emphasize teachers' benefits. Study the professor's
research leave system and organize full-time teacher's
social activities.
D.Incentive will be given to teachers in order to
encourage the publication of academic essays.
Encourage educational research and further study. It
is also planned to draft a teaching improvement,
teaching materials development award scheme.
Encourage teachers to engage in research and seek
promotion by offering pragmatic encouragement
to promoted teachers.
E. Evaluate teachers according to the diversified
assessment methods proposed by the Ministry of Education.
Make annual evaluation of incumbent teachers on integrative
basis with respect to their teaching, service and research.
Unsuitable teachers will be eliminated in this way.
F.Suggest to the headquarters to fill military teachers'
vacancies on a "preference to qualification" basis.
That is, those with PhD degree (assistant professor)
may all be transferred to captain teacher vacancies,
and preference should be given to those with higher
teacher qualifications. This should replace the existing
"qualification restriction" regulation, to relax the
restriction on military teachers' promotion and increase
human resources effectiveness.
G.Emphasize teaching ethics and set down the code
of teaching ethics.
(3)Planned teacher-student ratio: Cadet recruitment
is diversified, including four formal classes, one
professional class and two groups of graduate master
class. Assuming that there are about 800 students per year
in the future and 118 instructors and teachers quota,
the planned teacher-student ratio is 1 to 6 With the
small-class teaching, it is expected that student
quality will be raised, and it is beneficial to instructors'
and teachers' research activities.
(III) Excellence Excellence-pursuing Campus Total
Quality
1.Curriculum and teaching:
(1)STS modular teaching: After discussion of various
teaching departments, STS modular curriculum and teaching
system. Relevant teaching materials (plans) are developed
and relevant special research and experiments are
conducted.
(2)Enhance teaching quality: Implement curriculum
filing system. Pre-teaching preparation includes teaching
plans and teaching overview, etc.
(3)Daily military education: Draft a daily military
education self-learning curriculum that enables cadets
to learn by themselves, with cadres' counseling. Then
seniors will lead juniors in extending the teaching
effect after considering the implementation
result.
(4)Regular teaching evaluation: Include opening
(the fifth week after start of school term) and closing
teaching evaluation (after result assessment at the
end of the school term). Conduct immediate teaching
evaluation survey and the survey result will be provided
to the instructor and teacher for reference only
in order to enhance teaching effectiveness and promote
a good cycle of teaching and learning.
(5)Promote distant learning: Combined with the ordained
"Rules of Trial Computer-assisted Instruction," teaching
materials, handouts, etc. will be produced as computer-assisted
teaching websites to provide cadets with distant learning
infrastructure and facilities. From "networking of
teaching materials," the model will develop gradually
into "synchronous and non-synchronous teaching," so
as to enhance cadets' learning interest.
(6)Strict examination results: Diversified evaluation
methods are developed, including oral exam, writing
exam, in-class practice, group discussion, learning report,
and written report, so that an objective and fair
result will be obtained to evaluate the learning effect
after cross-referencing of various exams. A corresponding
evaluation standard should be set down for various
subjects, and should be listed in the teaching overview.
Furthermore, it is planned to lift up the dropout
standard, so that a policy that features stringent
examination and stringent elimination is achieved.
(7)Teaching administration-related plan: Perfect
the curriculum design, to exert the functions of all
committees and promote diversified interactive teaching,
departmental teaching seminars, teaching demonstration,
serial academic speeches, cadets' academic seminar
and other activities.
2.Educational partners:
(1)Fleet educational consultation:
A.Brigade members are added to the educational consultation
committee, so that the committee may effectuate educational
consultation function that combines military practice
and academic concern.
B.Review the teaching hours of all military educational
courses, and adjust some hours to short-term fleet
practical training. Strengthen learning effect with
the intensive fleet practical, where knowledge can
be applied right away.
C.Make strict execution of cadets' vessel training
approval system and evaluation.
(2)University strategic alliance: According to the
implementation guidelines of the Academy's strategic
alliance with civilian universities, the alliance
with National Taiwan Ocean University, National Kaohsiung
Marine University and universities in southern Taiwan
are promoted. Educational resources are consolidated
and shared and regional resources include: regular
visits and exchanges. Also, investment planning, teaching
cooperation, cadet brigade training, integrative research
projects, special seminars, library information access
and
inter-school student activities are also consolidated.
(3)Continuing education center:
A. Keep the effort on continuing education pursuant
to the "Regulations of Armed Forces Officers Engaging
in Lifelong Learning." Cooperate with famous institutes
in the southern region like I-Shou University,
National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung Normal University to
open credit-based master programs and the Academy
will open classes that represent the characteristics of
the Navy: mainly on information management, ocean
physics, underwater acoustics, electrical engineering,
optical-electronics and mechanics, etc. This is to upgrade
the overall quality of the Navy and to train a second
strength.
B. It is planned to build a few classrooms for
lifelong learning in the newly built research building (there
is only one so far), for the use of lifelong learning
classes, so that they will have a better learning
environment.
C.Set up the video-on-demand playback system and
produce various teaching CD-ROM. Combining with the
army's MIL network, the system may provide individual
officers and various school units with VOD learning
facilities, and expand the teaching and learning perspective
and effect.
D. According to the "Enforcement Rules of
Universities Offering Continued Education," it is
suggested that a "Continuing Education Center" be
instituted in the Academy. The Academy's
well-established teaching environment and teaching resources may then be used to open credit-based
master programs, credit-based bachelor program, and
non-credit-based special programs. It will be become
a channel for officers' lifelong learning and the
Navy's continuing education center in the southern
region.
(IV) Offering New counseling system that provides
all-round care
1.Counseling service:
(1)Integrated counseling work: A 4-in-1 mentoring
system that concerns the teachers, brigade cadres,
psychological counselors and senior graders is established.
A family-like educational group is formed through
this model and counseling system. This is a passing-on
model where seniors lead juniors, and teachers develop
close relationship with cadets. Cadets may see teachers
as their role models to learn from them. It is how the "all-round
education" concept is fulfilled, the "all-round care"
counseling system is established and a cozy campus
and humanistic educational environment is created.
(2)Homework counseling office hours, and academic
counseling room: The second and fourth Tuesday of
every month is homework counseling time and teachers
will be assigned to sit at the "academic
counseling room" and counsel students with various
academic problems depending on their learning situation.
2.Learning result evaluation:
(1)Establishing "teacher service information system,"
where cadets' learning situation (e.g., rated as A,
B, C or D) will be posted after the mid-term examinations.
Cadets may enquire their evaluation result via the
network. Those with less satisfactory achievements
may make appointment with the teachers for individual
counseling, so that cadets' difficulties can be understood.
(2)In addition, the Academic Affairs Division will
compile cadets that have poor learning results in
a number of subjects and inform the cadet and refer
him/her to the academic center for counseling. In
the final report, not only the cadet's academic
center will be listed, but also the outstanding credits
he/she need to take, as a reminder for the cadets.
(3)Implement psychological, life and extra-curricular
activity counseling for cadets.
(4)Strict management on the division of "teaching
area" and "living area" and conduct regular review
to see the effect.
(5)Healthcare service: strengthen physical and mental
health education and medical service.
(6)Cadet-Academy communication mechanism: Broaden
the channel of communication, including the Superintendent's
e-mail, online discussion group of teaching and administration
units, message board, student representatives' participation
in various committees.
3.Educational achievement:
(1)Quantified indices of education: Establish quantified
indices for the evaluation of educational quality,
for example, network node, information education proportion,
English program proportion, teacher qualification
structure, cadet's dropout ratio, etc.
(2)Control of education effect: Establish a designated
unit to monitor the educational quality and keep
strict longitudinal investigation on graduates after
they serve in the fleet in order to provide important
reference for the improvement of education and training.
(3)Educational publicity and exhibition: It is prepared
that an educational exhibition hall be built. A comprehensive
educational documentation will be established to expand
the cadet recruitment effect. |
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The Chinese nationalities
have always had a long ocean culture. You can find the
remains of ocean-related activities from ancient times. It has
gone through many developments and innovations throughout
each century, and it had finally reached a peak during
the Ming dynasty. In the 3rd year of Emperor Yongle
in Ming Dynasty(1405), Zheng He had led the navy’s
enormous fleet sailing to the south east Asia waters
with technology more superior than Europe and with a
majestic appearance. He had also led the fleet's travels
between the South China Sea and Indian Ocean Seven
times. During these travels, he had even reached the
East African coastline. During his lifetime, he had
visited more than 30 countries, and his magnificent
voyage was done 100 years before Christopher Columbus
set out to sea with his Spanish fleet. Also, his voyage
was done 80 years prior to the traveler V da Gama, who led the
Spanish fleet in discovering The Cape of Good Hope and
the passage to the Indian Ocean. What he had achieved
was never been reached by anyone else in history, and
he had created an evolution from experiences with his
adventures, courage of facing the unknown, and the spirit
of conquering the nature. This should cause us to make in-dept
thoughts and keep in mind why we are unable to maintain
our superioty on the sea and how have our own people
destroyed the powerful navy we had once owned.
Our academy was established firstly in Shanghai over
60 years ago since 1946 after World War II. We have
successfully carried on the responsibilities on
education, and we have also produced the good fruits out
of our students. We truly raise the first class
talented people for protecting the rights of our seas
and frontiers, and also strengthen our defenses to construct a first
class navy. We have contributed a splendid result in
academic studies and combat training. We have also won
praises and affirmatives world-wide. The result is gained
not only from the work of past principles, faculties
and students in the academy, but it is also the result
of their sacrifices. However, we are living in the 21st
century, which is a time where the center of economy
has shifted from the Atlantic to the Pacific countries.
As our overall economical power is increasing, our strategical
position is changed also. Further, the economical prosperity
and the national security in the future will be closely
related to the “Thalassocracy.” Thus, the Pacific
era is guided by the development of Thalassocracy to
become the new age of Thalassocracy. It also means that
the entire people will be heading towards the new century
of the ocean. Therefore, in order to protect the safety
of our country and effectively control the integration
strength of the ocean as well as keeping superior navy
forces, we must build up the navy and increase overall
strength to become the best shield for maintaining Thalassocracy,
which is the path we should head towards in mutual acknowledgement.
However, as we have known, besides the meaning of
controlling the ocean, Thalassocracy also includes the
usage of ocean, which is an integration of oceanic industry,
ocean transportation, ocean trade, the hardware construction
of ocean technologies and ocean policies, ocean management,
sea laws and related software development to combine
with the military for becoming an united power. Although
we are breeding the talented people who are able to
control the ocean, we also facing for the challenges
in this new century on the subject of satisfying the
pulsation and needs in the society from our educational
studies. It is a very important issue because there
are many colleges and universities in our society. It's
also important to figure out how to promote superior
competition abilities and how the chain of command will
affect our forces after when we switch to implementing
the mercenary system. This should be fully planned and
different plans with foresightedness, diverseness and
sustainable development should be developed for providing
for rainy days. It is more important for the planning
of sustainable development, which includes the developmental
goals, personnel training, and assets of utilization.
That is why there are many century old companies and
schools in U.S or Europe. Although the time and environment
is different, from history, Jheng He’s ocean trading
business somehow didn’t adhere to this principle, resulting
in a sad end, and should be always kept in mind and
used as a reference in the future. The past year, because
the faculties, students, officers in all levels, cadre,
and colleagues have united together and worked as hard
as they can to create an honorable record and good name.
Now it is a new school year, as we raise our eyes and
watch the development of our nation, the direction of
the expansion of our navy, and the changing of our environment,
we will write the “97–106 R.O.C Naval academy School
affairs Development Planning document,” which will
become the guidance for the development of our school
affairs. The following shows the main points of the
plan:
1. Advance military officers’ full-range education,
promotes the professional skill education for the noncommissioned
officers Our faculties are all dedicated in their teachings,
our equipment is new and up-to-date, and we have a well-equiped
living facilities that will help us to cultivate good
quality professional military and noncommissioned officers.
The main point of developing and educating the future
officers is set on the promotion of the students’ core
values, the completion of professional skills, sharpening
the intelligence of leaders, training for a stronger
body, Navy loyalty and patriotic military discipline,
and the deepening of an anchored spirit. Moreover, the
main points of the education of the officers lie on
the cultivation of professional skills and the advancing
of leadership intelligence, so we can provide facilitation
to the students in obtaining the certificates that are
related to their work. Then, at the same time, we are
upgrading the officers’ education, so they are able
to be competent and happy in their work. We are hoping
to turn them into the backbone of the navy.
2. Promote the quality and diversity of character education,
setting a good primary quality for the officers For
many years, the students’ character education has been
the main point of focus. Currently we have installed
the “character education implementation plan.” It
integrates the resources and people from the student
corps, general education center, and the office of student
affairs in deepening the students’ character education
as a team. It will be done through class discussions,
seminars given by professional speakers, home visits
(cultivation project), essays, academic research meetings
(“character education and military professional ethic”)
so as to create related atmospheres in the school (such
as the printing of “school touring manuals”), and
use school voluntary service to replace punishment,
and diversified recessive education. We will continue
to improve our methods in order to increase the outcome
of promoting character education.
3. Build up a strong body, and strengthen the students’
will in facing dangers and resistance The military is
holding an important responsibility in protecting the
people, and therefore building a strong body has become
a soldier’s basic duty. Because a military officer
is a role model for the soldiers, therefore all the
training plans in the school are focusing in active
training for the students’ bodies. Each month there
will be a physical examination, and the students who
have passed the test will help the failing students
to reach the standard. Through the help and caring from
the fellow classmates, the students will be able to
increase their body strength. We require all of the
students to pass the goal before the end of grade 2
in order to prepare for the difficult physical training
lying ahead.
4. Improve the schools’ overall education quality
based on the Ministry of Education’s evaluation on
departments, graduate schools and schools' affairs In
order to maintain the education quality in the higher
education, the Higher Education Evaluation &
Accreditation Council of Taiwan is commissioned by the
Ministry of education to take charge of the evaluating
of the colleges in a period of 5 years. Military and
police academies are also included on the list of
evaluation. With an eye to absorbing the experiences from other
schools, we have sent people to observe the preparation
and experiences for the learning evaluation observation
at the National Taiwan Ocean University, Tamkang University,
and Tunghai University in December 2007. Then, we have
actively been preparing self evaluations and department
and graduate school evaluations, and this year we
establish the “evaluation case specializing office”
on the first floor of the library with task force methods.
It will be mainly responsible for the job of preparation
for integrating the school’s units for the evaluation.
Then, after the department and graduate school evaluations
are ended, we are able to make changes to improve our
teaching, studies, services, counseling and administration
based on the result of the evaluations.
5. Active in promoting engineering accreditation,
promotion department’s international status In order
to follow the trend of higher education developments
worldwide, the Institute of Engineering Education in
Taiwan (IEET) representes our government to become
the formal Signatory in the Washington Accord during
the 8th Biennial Meeting of the Washington Accord signatories
in June 20, 2007. The diplomas from the schools who
are being accredited by the IEET wi also be recognized
by the member countries in the Washington accord. Therefore,
our school has sent the people from the oceanography
department to participate in the “Authentication of
Engineering and Technology Education ” hosted by the
Institute of Engineering Education Taiwan. Then each
year we will promote the engineering accreditation from
other departments, so our education quality can be connected
with the world in order to upgrade our international
standard.
6. Lead the teachers studies of professions to the
navy related field, to provide professional support
for our navy Each faculty from each department has specific
research specialties which have provided some degree
of contribution in their territory. If we can combine
the professors’ direction of study to the field of
navy, then we will be able to provide professional opinions
to the technology, management, system and reformation
in our navy, which can become an intelligence bank for
us. Each department has planned for their research directions
based on their property and relationship with the navy
profession: Department of Marine Science (develop Oceanic
acoustics and anti-submarine detection investigation
project), Department of Marine Mechanical Engineering
(develops power for the ships), Department of Electrical
Engineering (develop radar and electric magnetic detection
investigation system), Department of Applied Science
(constructs navy application science database), Department
of Information Management (develop command & control
chain), Department of Humanities (studies on people
related subject in the navy), Department of Sociology
(studies on military sociology related issues in the
navy.) If we are able to obtain support from superior
units, then we will be able to share our professional
research results to the units in the navy.
7. Reinforce the exchange project between the ships
with our school to combine the needs of our school with
the fleet Since 2006, fleet 124、151 and 192 have been
promoting exchanges between the ships and our school,
and the faculties from each department will travel with
the ships. They will interview the ship officers and
the graduate students about their thoughts in the service,
and then the faculty will provide written reports after
they return to school. The report will become a reference
for our school’s reformation and teacher’s advancement.
Up to today each professor has boarded at least one
ship. Then, besides continuing the second ship-school
exchanges in June, we have been promoting the combination
of ship-school exchanges with the departments evaluations,
so the contents of the interviews will be able to benefit
the department's evaluation reports based on the items
and topics in the evaluations.
This year I wish to turn a new page. I hope we are
able to gather the more advanced experiences and wisdom
in the future education journey in our school. I hope
we will be more active in the scientific education and
academic studies, and that we can continue to innovate
and grow to make our school become the foundation of
breeding new leaders for the navy. Through seeing the
world with new vision and with wider prospects, we can
complete the vision for our future. The 7 main points
that show the future plan for our school are shown above.
They are all long-term goals, and they cannot be accomplished
in a short period of time. We hope the colleagues in
our schools will be holding onto each of our positions
and set your heart on it, and you will be working based
on the students’ learning needs. I hope we will be
able to use the 7 guidelines to improve the teaching,
studies, counseling, academic affairs and administration
in our school to create a new bright era.
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