Industry-Academia Collaboration in Innovation

In order to encourage students in related departments to study hard, YOKE continued with its scholarship program to eligible students from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at National Chung Hsing University. YOKE awards the NT$ 300,000 scholarship on a yearly basis and statistics of the scholarships we offered various universities since 2002 reveal that more than NT$ 10 million has been donated over the past 20 years.

Additionally, Yoke also respects outstanding scholars and experts in guiding technological research and development directions and applications, promoting academic excellence and the spirit of technological innovation. Starting in 2022, Yoke established the “National Taiwan University College of Engineering Yoke Outstanding Scholar Award,” which will donate NT$300,000 annually for six consecutive years to support one outstanding scholar selected each year. In 2024, Yoke donated NT$1,000,000 to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at National Chung Hsing University for the construction of the Chemical Engineering and Materials Building, nurturing future talent.

We began joining the “Industry-Academia Partnership Training Program” organized by the Taichung-Changhua-Nantou Regional Branch of Work Development Agency and Taichung Industrial High School in 2019 to recruit grade 12 students of the Department of Mechanical Engineering for internship at YOKE on fixed-term full-time employment contracts. By 2024, we have accepted twelve students from Taichung Industrial High School. In order to help students put to use what they had learned in school and at the Bureau of Vocational Training, the interns were assigned to Processing Section for hands-on practice as they learned to operate CNC lathe and practical operational skills for milling machines. Such arrangement enables students to acquire useful skills and explore specific areas of expertise they may wish to pursue a career before they enter the employment market.

The Industry-Academia Partnership Training Program also reached out to students of four-year technical programs. In 2021, we joined the Industry-Academia Partnership Program” promotion organized by National Chin-Yi University of Technology (NCUT). For interns of Taichung Industrial High School with outstanding academic performance and interested in the industry-academia partnership program, we and Taichung Industrial High School will recommend them to NCUT to directly enroll on the Industry-Academia Partnership Program immediately after completing their grade 12 internship. In 2022, five students decided to stay with us. Through this special program, the student worked during the day at YOKE and attended classes at the university at night and on Saturdays. With such cohesive internship collaboration between YOKE and the university, we were able to truly manifest the ideals of “learning through working and working through learning.” The arrangement also helped boost our human resources and contributed to the cultivation of competent talents at the Company.