Investment in youth empowerment
YOKE Scholarship
To encourage students of related disciplines to study hard, we continuously offer scholarships 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. Every year we offer scholarships amounting to NT$ 300,000 regularly. Statistics show that we have offered scholarships amounting to over NT$10 million since 2002.
Apart from encouraging students, we have also established the “NTU College of Engineering Yoke Distinguished Scholar and Expert Reward” to reward scholars with distinguished performance in guiding technology R&D and application, setting examples in academia, and making technology innovation. Starting from 2022, we will donate NT$300,000 to the College of Engineering of National Taiwan University (NTU) for six consecutive years to reward distinguished scholars. We support the “NTU Centenary Promoter Fundraising Program” and donated NT$1 million in 2023 for the construction of the NTU centenary memorial hall and campus hardware and software.
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More than NT$ 10 million has been donated over the past 20 years
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Starting from 2022, we will donate NT$300,000
Industry-academia internship program
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 2023, we have accepted nine 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, four 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.
Summer Internship Program
In 2023 we organized the summer internship program to recruit students from the relevant disciplines to practice at YOKE on a fixed-term full-time employment contract. We recruited 9 students from National Taiwan University, National Cheng Kung University, National Chung Hsing University, and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Students were divided into three groups by expertise for the topic research. Apart from taking the common courses, we also designed topic-specific professional courses to facilitate the research of individual topics. After six weeks of education and internship, we invited teachers of different schools to the achievement presentation. The general manager, school teachers, and managers formed an evaluation panel to evaluate the presentation. The rank of each group was announced and bonuses were distributed afterwards. We held a forum on the last day of internship to listen to the ideas and suggestions for the program of interns for the reference of improvement of the future internship programs.
