History
Founded under the College of Social Sciences and Management with approval from the Ministry of Education (Document No. 台(九一)高(一)字第九一一六五四九○號) in 2002, the Management Information Systems department was mainly active in Hall 2. It began student enrollment in 2003 and temporarily moved to the College of Life Science in 2005, with more computer rooms and research labs until the new College of Management building was completed in 2008. The Management Information Systems department of National Chung Hsing University focuses on cultivating expertise in information technology application and system development, providing talented individuals in information management to enterprises both domestically and internationally, and dedicating itself to the long-term development of the field. As a distinguishing characteristic, we aim to equip students with the abilities to guide enterprises in achieving informatization and high competitiveness, which sets us apart from other MIS departments in domestic universities.
- 2003 Established Bachelor’s degree program.
- 2007 Established Master’s degree program.
- 2009 Established In-Service Master’s degree for Secondary School Teachers.
- 2012 Established In-Service Master’s degree program. Ceased enrollment in the In-Service Master’s degree for Secondary School Teachers.
- 2020 Dissolved the Part-time Master’s degree for Secondary School Teachers.
Mission
Based on the education and development objectives of College of Management, the mission is set to cultivate talented people having the expertise of applying information technology and developing management information system for both Bachelor and (In-Service) Master degree.
Features
With emphasizing both theories and practice, following trends of information technologies and development of industries, and integrating cross-domain systems, the MIS of NCHU set ‘Artificial Intelligence & Data Science’ and ‘Information Management & Information Security’ as two major domains. Major domains – Subdomains and Applied Fields
| Main Development Areas | Sub-Area | Application Field |
| Artificial Intelligence & Data Science (Artificial Intelligence /Machine Learning) | Computer Vision/ Image Processing | Affective Computing |
| Image Recognition | ||
| Natural Language Processing | Information Retrieval | |
| Text Mining | ||
| Chatbot | ||
| Big Data Analysis | Bioinformation | |
| Precision Medicine | ||
| Cloud Computing/Edge Computing | ||
| Smart Life | ||
| Business Model | ||
| Industry 4.0 | ||
| Information Management & Information Security (Blockchain/Information Security) | Internet of Thing | |
| Blockchain | ||
| FinTech | ||
| Information Security | Security of IoT | |
| Information Security Management | ||
| Internet Security | ||
| Image Authentication | ||
| Image Authentication | E-learning | |
| Project Management |
Education Objectives & Core Competencies
Bachelor
| Education Objectives | No. | Objectives | |
| 1 | Instructing the knowledge of information technology. | ||
| 2 | Cultivating the literacy of contemporary management. | ||
| 3 | Broadening the global horizons. | ||
| 4 | Enhancing the ability of problem solving. | ||
| Core Competencies | No. | Objectives | Competencies |
| A | Expertise & Application | 1,2 | |
| B | Independent Analysis | 1,2 | |
| C | Creativity | 1,2 | |
| D | English (Language Ability) | 3 | |
| E | Global Awareness | 3 | |
| F | Communication & Coordination | 4 | |
| G | Business Ethics | 2 | |
Master
| Education Objectives | No. | Objectives | |
| 1 | Cultivating advance talents with information management and technology application. | ||
| 2 | Cultivating researchers with independent thinking and academic creativity. | ||
| 3 | Cultivating managers with team communication and problem solving. | ||
| 4 | Cultivating leaders with social care and global vision. | ||
| Core Competencies | No. | Objectives | Competencies |
| A | Expertise & Practice | 1 | |
| B | Independent Research & Analysis | 2 | |
| C | Creative Research | 2 | |
| D | Leadership & Teamwork | 3 | |
| E | Social Responsibility & Global Vision | 4 | |
In-service Master
| Education Objectives | No. | Objectives | |
| 1 | Cultivating advance talents with information management and technology application. | ||
| 2 | Cultivating industrial talents with independent thinking and creative cogitation. | ||
| 3 | Cultivating managers with team communication and problem solving. | ||
| 4 | Cultivating leaders with social care and global vision. | ||
| Core Competencies | No. | Objectives | Competencies |
| A | Expertise & Practice | 1 | |
| B | Independent Problem Solving | 2 | |
| C | Creative Cogitation | 2 | |
| D | Leadership & Teamwork | 3 | |
| E | Social Responsibility & Global Vision | 4 | |
Opportunity & Strength
Opportunity:
- To grasp the opportunity of AI development, the government announces that year 2017 is the first year of AI in Taiwan and release the “R&D Strategy of AI” in August. In 2018, the government also promotes “4-years Taiwan AI Development Plans” to full active industrialization of AI. As a result, uses of industrialized AI and AI industries will be keys to AI development in Taiwan.
- AI is walk into business application from laboratory step by step, such as retailing, financial services, bio-tech & medical treatment, auto-pilot, robots and smart living. Cross-domain experts like data scientist, algorithms and robotic engineer are the key person of AI development, who are desperately needed by the human resource market. The graduates of Physics, Psychology and Financial departments are rise to data scientist with million paid per year recently.
- With emphasizing combination of theories and practice, the MIS of NCHU set ‘Artificial Intelligence & Data Science’ and ‘Information Management & Information Security’ as two major domains, then branch ‘Computer Vision & Digital Image Processing’, ‘Natural Language Processing’, ‘Big Data Analysis’, ‘Blockchain’, ‘Information Security’ and ‘Information Management’ as subdomains. All above domains are necessary techniques in development of AI industries.
- Neighbor with Taichung Industrial Park, Central Taiwan Science Park, The Taichung City Precision Machinery Innovation Technology Park and The Nantou Zhongxing New Village Advanced Technology Park, talented people with techniques of information management and technology are needed desperately.
Strength:
- National Chung Hsing University is the only one selected to developed as national first class university and acquired top research center program (50 billion for 5 years) in central Taiwan.
- National Chung Hsing University has complete talented with management, information, biotechnology and medical technology.
- National Chung Hsing University is the academic network center of central Taiwan.
- Hall of College of Management is new-built and MIS has specific laboratories for each professor and student.
- MIS has excellent qualified professors and complete instruments.
- MIS set ‘Cultivating advanced cross-domains integration researchers, who emphasizing both theories and practices, possessing the experiences of industrial practice training and global vision.’ as educational objective.
- Mechanics of Industrial Cooperation: College-level research centers (Center for Industrial Development Research, Cornerstone Center for Academia-Industry Research and Center for Financial Risk Management Research), laboratories (Marketing, E-Commerce, Transaction Simulation and Envisioning U-Commerce) and EMBA Alumni, who seek tunnels of cooperation with industries, enhance cross-domain and industrial practice opportunities, broaden chance of employments for graduates at future and increase the visibility for MIS of NCHU.
