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As founder and former Chairman S. C. Lin was aware that talented
people are the most important asset of a business, he wound
up his individual business in 1942 and donated his own property
to establish Tatung Schools-Company. The founder reserved
10% of his property for his family, and donated 10% to all
the Tatung colleagues so that they were able to become employee
shareholders. The remaining 80% were donated to the Hsieh-Chih
Association for Industry Development, which established Tatung
Senior High School and Tatung University. These two schools
and Tatung Company, a leading electric and electronic company
in Taiwan with annual sales of 6 billion US dollars and 36,000
employees world wide, form the Tatung Schools-Company, a unique
education-industry-integration program in the world. Dr. T.
S. Lin was then appointed Professor-President-Chairman of
the Schools-Company.
The first clause of the organization articles of Tatung Company
states: "To carry out the program of education-industry
partnership with
Tatung University and Tatung Senior High School, this company
accepts
investments from the schools and the general public for its
sufficient
source of capital fund and is organized and named as Tatung
Company
according to the Company Law." Tatung Company offers
workshops
for Tatung students to gain hands-on experience and to put
theory
into practice, thus complementing each other for the attainment
of
the objectives of engineering education.
In 1956 Tatung Institute of Technology was formally established
and began to offer two-year programs. The Institute was accredited
as
a four-year institute of technology in 1963. To meet the needs
of the
rapid economic development and the ever-increasing demands
for highly
qualified professionals, the Institute began to offer master
programs in 1976,
and doctorate programs in 1982. In 1999, the Institute was
renamed as Tatung University.
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