Two NCKU Administrators Recognized with their Contribution on Administration

Dr. Woei-Shyan Lee, the Secretary General of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) and Dr. Jyh-Hong Chen, the Superintendent of NCKU Hospital were conferred with identification by NCKU President, Dr. Michael M.C. Lai, for their contribution on school administration. NCKU has won the first place of “2008 Service Quality Award” from Executive Yuan, and NCKU Hospital won the “2008 Personnel Innovative Award” and “2008 Outstanding Manager Award” from Executive Yuan as well.

Most importantly, NCKU was the only university recognized with the medal for “2008 Service Quality Award” among more than one hundred universities in Taiwan. Dr. Re-Chen Cheng, the Minister of Education, will confer this prestigious medal to NCKU on April 2nd.

Dr. Woei-Shyan Lee, also the Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department, served as the Secretary General of NCKU, supervised “Group HiQ”, which consists of 14 NCKU administrative agencies, to actively promote the service quality.

In addition, Dr. Woei-Shyan Lee has been making outstanding achievement and contribution to teaching, research and social service. He devoted himself to the promotion of teaching, learning and research environment during his tenure as the Chairman of Mechanical Engineering Department. During his 2-year service as the NCKU Secretary General, Dr. Lee assists NCKU President to reform school administration, to promote service quality and efficiency, as well as to enhance NCKU’s international recognition and prominence.

In Dr. Jyh-Hong Chen’s endeavors to tap new resources and reduce expenses, the NCKU Hospital, located in the southern Taiwan with barren financial revenue, has observed its annual profits mounted 70% more than last year, top of all public hospitals in Taiwan.

However, Dr. Chen emphasizes more on patients’ benefit than hospital’s profits. NCKU Hospital always puts patients in its mind and aims to be the best provider of the medical service of the greatest quality. That is, the excellent performance of the NCKU Hospital was reflected from the hard work of all employees and staffs, not in expenses of patients’ cares and benefits. It is also the mission of the NCKU Hospital along with the NCKU College of Medicine to endeavor to be the best medical education institute in Taiwan and in the world.

About NCKU

With three quarters of a century of distinguished history, with well over 120,000 powerful alumni now dotting the globe, many have achieved supreme successes in arts, business, education, science, technology and healthcare and are ready and willing to assist, with 20,000 academic selective students and 1100 academic significant faculty members currently, both have healthy dosage of international flavor, with enormous regional support, and with a permeating culture of proactive intellectual growth on the world’s stage, NCKU in Tainan, Taiwan, has evolved from its engineering genesis to become a powerful comprehensive, research and international university in Asia Pacific.