Dahan Institute of Technology

The Dahan Institute of Technology, previously named “Dahan Junior College of Engineering and Business” was founded on June 1977. The first Board of Directors was formally set up the same year that Mr. Lin, Chao-Gan was named as the board chairman and Professor Bee, Lain-Chung was elected as the first president. The three Branches of Day Division- Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Mineral Engineering were established. Originally, our undergraduate programs provided students rigorous theories with some empirical trainings and proficient management skills so as to enable them to possess professional specialties before graduation. The graduates were expected to take good advantage of their management skills to create innovative working environments and hence, to steer their own boats. The educational goals of our college were to educate students preparing for future competitive challenges in such complicated industrial environments as well as to give them an insight into the problems of world. In the academic year of 1979, Professor Yang, So-Chun was invited to be the second president. The next year, the Branches for the five-year junior college, International Trade and Financial Taxation, were successively erected. At the end of July, 2008, Professor Kang retired, and Professor Song, Pey-Shiuan served as the president. The distinguishing characteristics of our technical vocational education were to combine industrial and social demands, to instruct students how to work both in hands and brain, and to raise them to be future managerial talents, with healthy body and minds, well versed in business morals, professional ethics, and professionalism. Since the 99th academic year, the original fourteen departments would be integrated into nine departments, including those of Civil Engineering & Environmental Resource Management, Mechanical Engineering, Business Administration, Tourism Management, Logistics Management, Leisure Business Management, Recreational Sports Management, Jewelry Technology, and Computer & Communication Engineering. The competence-based education, zealously promoted by our school through some scrutinized and scientific process of analyses yielding course standards, enabled our students to obtain their specialties. In the meanwhile, the students’ learning experiences and individual differences, acquired in such an educational process, would be optimized so that they could learn happily and obtain the licenses for the future competitions.