Chang Chun-yen
Taiwanese engineer, president of NCTU
Chang Chun-yen (traditional Chinese: 張俊彥; 12 October 1937 – 12 October 2018) was a Taiwanese academic administrator and electrical engineer who served as the president of National Chiao Tung University (NCTU).
He was a member of Academia Sinica. He was also elected an international member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2000 for contributions to Taiwanese electronics industry, education, and materials technology.
Chang is considered a founder of Taiwan's semiconductor industry, he was awarded the TWAS Prize for Engineering Sciences in 2006 and the Nikkei Asia Prize for Science in 2007.
Early life and education
Chang was born on 12 October 1937 in Fongshan, Kaohsiung (formerly part of Tainan), Taiwan. His father, Chang Mu-huo (張木火) was a secondary school teacher who was fired after the February 28 incident and sentenced to death on charge of subversion for his involvement in the Madou incident.
Because of his father's involvement, Chang was blacklisted and forbidden from going abroad to study, and therefore received his entire education in Taiwan. After graduating with an electrical engineering degree from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in 1960, he studied at the graduate school of National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), where he earned his M.S. in 1962 and his Ph.D. in 1970, specializing in semiconductors. He was the first locally educated engineering Ph.D. in Taiwan.
Career
In 1964, Chang, together with his colleagues Chang Jui-fu (張瑞夫) and Kuo Shuang-fa (郭雙發), founded the Semiconductor Research Center at NCTU, which was the first such center in Taiwan and considered the foundation of Taiwan's hi-tech industry.
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