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NTUST’s Policy- and Lawmakers Outreach and Education

NTUST faculty members are actively engaged in outreach, education, upskilling and capacity-building for policymakers and lawmakers. Drawing on the university's strengths in applied engineering, frontier research and intellectual-property law, NTUST supports evidence-based policy through (1) a dedicated technology policy and law research and teaching unit, (2) expert testimony before the Legislative Yuan, service on government bodies and University Social Responsibility (USR) work with local communities, and (3) sustainability-governance and net-zero training for public- and private-sector stakeholders. Between 2024 and 2026, official Legislative Yuan gazettes, hearing reports and IVOD video records confirm at least four public hearings at which the NTUST President or faculty members were invited to speak, covering higher-education governance, Fair Trade Commission appointments, news-media bargaining and AI governance, and urban-renewal legislation.

1. Core Academic and Policy Research Units
1.1 Technology Policy and Law Program, Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology

NTUST runs a Technology Policy and Law program staffed by faculty from engineering, patents, management and law, with regular teaching by industry practitioners. The program holds that technological progress becomes human welfare only through institutional processes. Emerging challenges such as information privacy, biomedical ethics and a low-carbon society need a legal basis for risk assessment, due process in resource allocation and international alignment. Courses include professional and biomedical research ethics, e-commerce law, decision-making and law for green-energy technologies, cross-strait technology cooperation, administrative procedure law, international IP law, and industrial innovation and technology management.

1.2 IP and Industry–Academia Think-Tank Role
  • Competition, energy and climate law: Prof. Hwa-Mei Liu (Graduate Institute of Technology Management; Dr. iur., University of Munich) is a former Commissioner of the Fair Trade Commission (8th term). She specializes in competition law, energy and climate law, administrative law and IP law, and has led research commissioned by the Fair Trade Commission, the National Development Council, the Institute for Information Industry and the Taipei City Government.
  • Judicial and standards advisory: Prof. Poki Chen (Electronic Engineering) has served since 2007 on the Judicial Yuan's Advisory Panel for Patent Administrative Litigation and on the Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection's national standards committee for electronic engineering. He is also a former patent examiner for the Intellectual Property Office.
  • AI governance: Asst. Prof. Tai-Jan Huang (Graduate Institute of Patent) serves on an Academia Sinica panel on generative-AI risk and has contributed to reports of the OECD-hosted Global Partnership on AI (GPAI).
  • Vocational-education policy research: The Empowering Vocational Education Research Center (EVERC) is Taiwan's first international research center on technical and vocational education. It informs policy on vocational education and the training of skilled workers.
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2. Policy Advice and Social Outreach
2.1 Expert Testimony at Legislative Yuan Public Hearings

Cross-checking the Legislative Yuan's Parliamentary Library and Gazette system, the hearing reports and IVOD records turned up the following hearings where NTUST leaders or faculty spoke in 2024–2026 (the full list is in Section 4):

  • Higher education: 13 Nov 2024, Education and Culture Committee hearing on university governance, industry–academia cooperation and higher-education reform: President Jia-Yush Yen, speaking as Chair of the Association of National Universities of Science and Technology, addressed Article 7 of the University Act, the public–private university merger (NTUST–Hwa Hsia University of Technology), student participation in governance, and industry innovation colleges.
  • Economy and law: 16 Dec 2024, joint Economics and Judiciary & Organic Laws Committees hearing on the confirmation of Fair Trade Commission nominees: Prof. Hwa-Mei Liu testified in person and submitted a written opinion, which is included in the hearing report.
  • Digital economy and AI law: 12 Jun 2025, Transportation Committee hearing on legislating a news-media bargaining system: Asst. Prof. Tai-Jan Huang spoke from an AI-governance and data-use perspective. He urged careful treatment of how news content relates to AI training data and to sovereign-AI development.
  • Urban renewal and resilience: 28 Oct 2026, Internal Administration Committee hearing on amending the Act for Accelerated Reconstruction of Dangerous and Old Buildings and the Urban Renewal Act: an adjunct associate professor of Architecture attended. The name comes from the AI-generated IVOD transcript and will be confirmed once the gazette is published.
  • Policy influence: At the 6 Nov 2024 Education and Culture Committee hearing on private-college closures, the Ministry of Education and several scholars cited the NTUST–Hwa Hsia merger as a reference model for public–private consolidation. This shows NTUST's experience feeding directly into higher-education policy.
2.2 Faculty Engagement in Government Sustainability and Climate Governance
  • Convener of a government policy alliance: Prof. Tsai-Chi Kuo (Industrial Management) is the convener of the Retail Product Packaging Circular Sustainability Strategic Alliance, promoted by the Ministry of Environment's Resource Circulation Administration. At the ministry's packaging-reduction press event on 19 October 2026, he appeared alongside Minister Chi-Ming Peng. He explained that the alliance supports the ministry's target of cutting packaging by 10% by 2035, with a first-phase goal of 5% over five years. The alliance is building shared assessment methods for mono-material design, post-consumer recycled (PCR) content and reuse, linking manufacturers, packaging suppliers, retailers and recyclers to put the ministry's Retail Product Packaging Circular Sustainability Guidelines into practice.
  • In May 2026, NTUST and the Ministry of Environment co-hosted a campus event in the national series on youth participation in climate action. Prof. Tsai-Chi Kuo (Industrial Management) moderated, and representatives of the Climate Change Administration discussed transparent, accountable climate governance and open government.
  • As Chair of the Department of Industrial Management, Prof. Kuo spoke at a net-zero talent forum with Minister of Environment Chi-Ming Peng. He also taught an ESG carbon-reduction course for Academia Sinica.
  • In June 2024, NTUST's SEED Center hosted a Net-Zero Industry Forum. The CPC Corporation Chairman chaired it, with participation from Taipower and China Steel, linking net-zero policy to industrial practice.
2.3 University Social Responsibility (USR) and Local Governance
  • NTUST runs long-term USR projects, including Engineers in Action, Urban–Rural Partnership and Community Renewal & Resilience, and brings their results back to Taipei's Chengnan district to support local sustainability and community resilience.
  • On 18 September 2026, NTUST hosted the Ministry of Education's 2026 USR co-learning event, "New Horizons in Sustainability: Innovation, Diffusion and International Cooperation". Topics included regional revitalization, smart governance and community resilience in the Nangongguan settlement, encouraging inclusive local decision-making.
  • In December 2025, the NTUST USR Engineers in Action project showcased its cross-border community work at Expo 2025 Osaka. It was the only Taiwanese USR project to exhibit there.
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3. Executive Education for Officials and Stakeholders

Through the School of Management (EMBA), the Center for Continuing Education and its research centers, NTUST offers training on technology regulation, sustainability governance and net-zero transition to policymakers, public servants, industry leaders and the public:

  • The ESG Sustainability Management Talent Program (Nov 2025 – Jan 2026) covers sustainability governance, ISO and supply-chain management, the circular economy, green finance, carbon footprints and carbon trading. The center also delivers sustainability-management and carbon-inventory courses commissioned by the Ministry of Labor.
  • The Greenhouse Gas and Carbon Footprint Inventory course (Nov–Dec 2025) covers GHG inventories, sustainability reporting and third-party verification.
  • In August 2024, an ISO 14068-1 carbon-neutrality certification course, co-organized with an external training academy, drew more than 100 industry participants.
  • In April 2025, NTUST held a carbon-inventory system donation ceremony and Net-Zero Forum, where it announced the NTUST Net-Zero Declaration.
  • The Chengnan Lecture series brings professional knowledge into general education and promotes cross-disciplinary civic literacy among educators and the public.

Note: we found no news coverage of EMBA programs aimed at senior government officials. We suggest asking the School of Management for public-sector enrollment figures or course syllabi to add as evidence.

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4. Government Public Hearings Attended (2024–2026)

Scope: we screened all Legislative Yuan public hearings of the 11th term (Feb 2024 – Nov 2026) by searching IVOD transcripts for "National Taiwan University of Science and Technology / NTUST", then checked names and titles against the hearing reports and the Legislative Yuan Gazette. Each hearing is tagged with the requested fields (economy, law, climate change, healthcare, education).

Related records (NTUST cited, not an NTUST speaker)

Screening notes: no NTUST speaker was found in this period's transcripts for climate-change hearings (e.g., the 12 Aug 2026 hearing on carbon fees under the Climate Change Response Act) or healthcare hearings. Ministry-level hearings have no consolidated public attendee lists and are not included. We suggest surveying departments for records of faculty attending ministry advisory meetings (meeting notices or attendance certificates) to strengthen the evidence.

5. Summary of News Coverage

This evidence set covers official records of four Legislative Yuan hearings plus twelve news and official web reports. Coverage centers on three themes: (1) faculty giving expert testimony at the Legislative Yuan on higher-education governance, competition law, AI and the digital economy, and urban renewal; (2) NTUST working with the Ministry of Environment and other agencies on climate action, packaging-reduction policy (Prof. Kuo convenes a ministry-promoted strategic alliance) and the net-zero transition, alongside local and international USR work; and (3) capacity-building in sustainability governance for government, industry and academic stakeholders through continuing education, certification courses and forums.

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