Delegation was welcomed at the Dean’s Office
On September 4th, 2014, a delegation from Taiwan visited ESALQ and was welcomed initially by the dean of ESALQ, professor José Vicente Caixeta Filho; the vice-dean and president of International Relations Committee (CAInt), professor Marisa Aparecida Bismara Regitano d'Arce; by professors José Paulo Molin, from the Biosystems Engineering Department (LEB), Celso Omoto, from the Entomology and Acarology Department (LEA); and Maria Clara de L. Costa Barreto, Head of the International Office (SVAInt).
The delegation was composed by: Dr. Joe Air Jiang, Professor, Department of Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU) and director of the Education and Research Center for Bio-Industrial Automation; Dr. En Cheng Yang, professor at NTU's Department of Entomology; Dr. Samson Tsou, emeritus professor at National Ping Tung University; Jyh-Rong Tsay, secretary-general, division director of the Agricultural Engineering Division, Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, TARI; Tzu-Yu Fu, chief of International Cooperation Section, Department of International Affairs, CoA; Chun-Wei Kuo, specialist, Technology Service Section, Department of Science and Technology, CoA; Liang-Jeng Hung, researcher at the Industrial Development Center, Agricultural Technology Research Institute, ATRI; and representatives of JATO/ FATEC, Dr. Tsen Chung Kang and Dr. Hannes Fischer.
After the meeting at the Dean’s Office, from 10am to 12pm, the delegation visited the facilities of the National Institute of Science and Technology - Semiochemicals in the Agriculture, at the Entomology and Acarology Department (LEA). In the afternoon, at the same department, they participated in the Workshop “Pest Monitoring Systems”, which featured the following schedule:
- opening remarks, with professors João Roberto Spotti Lopes and Celso Omoto, from the Entomology and Acarology Department (LEA);
- “Remote Agro-Ecological Pest Monitoring System in Taiwan”, with Dr. Joe-Air Jiang, professor from the Department of Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering of NTU;
- “Citrus psyllid monitoring system in the State of São Paulo”, with Dr. Renato Bassanezi, Fundecitrus’ researcher;
- “New approach in Biological Control using Tamarixia radiata to control the Asian Citrus Psyllid, Diaphorina citri”, with professor José Roberto Postali Parra, from the Entomology and Acarology Department (LEA);
- “Development of citrus fruit borer monitoring system”, with professor Pedro Takao Yamamoto, from the Entomology and Acarology Department (LEA)
About the National Taiwan University (NTU)
NTU's institutional predecessor was Taihoku Imperial University, founded in 1928 by the Japanese colonial administration. The first president was Shidehara Tan Tairaka Hiroshi. In 1945, the Republic of China won the war of resistance against Japan, and Taiwan was handed over to the Nationalist government of China. On November 15th that year, Taihoku Imperial University was formally transferred to Chinese administration and renamed as National Taiwan University, with Dr. Tsung-lo Lo appointed as the first President.
Currently, the university has 11 colleges, with 54 departments and 103 graduate institutes, plus four university-level research centers: Population and Gender Studies Center, Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, Center for Biotechnology, and Bio-diversity Research Center. The total number of students, including those enrolled at the School of Professional and Continuing Studies, has grown to over 33,000, including over 17,000 university students and 15,000 graduate students. Now, the number of graduate students at NTU almost equals the number of university students, which indicates that NTU has successfully been transformed into a research university.
For more information about the NTU, in http://www.ntu.edu.tw/engv4/about/about.html
Written by: Luciana Joia de Lima
Support: Tobias de Paula Lima Souza
Translated by: Tobias de Paula Lima Souza
Proofread by: Marisa Aparecida B. Regitano d'Arce
Photo by: Gerhard Waller
Acom (ESALQ’s Office of Communications)
September 8th, 2014
