The Asia-Oceania Top University League on Engineering AOTULE

Preface

　The Asia-Oceania Top University League on Engineering, AOTULE, pronouced "Our tool", was founded to improve the quality of education and research of the member universities by forming strong collaboration relationships through exchanges of information, students, faculty members and staff among the top ranking engineering universities in the Asia-Oceania region.

Message from the Chair

　Welcome to the home page of the Asia-Oceania Top University League on Engineering (AOTULE). The league was formed in March 2007 to improve the quality of engineering education and research and to facilitate international collaborations among 12 leading universities in the Asia-Oceania region. Each university may have individual cooperation programs with one or more universities in the region, however, these programs will be on a narrow single line connecting the specified two universities. On the other hand, the AOTULE forms a kind of complete graph (this term is used in the field of the graph theory of network) spread out among all the universities included in this league, that is, the formation of the AOTULE changed the cooperation style from a line base to a plane one leading to a more powerful and effective connection of the universities.
　The 1st deans meeting was held on May 8, 2007 at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), the 2nd meeting was held on Nov.28-30, 2007 at KAIST (Korea), the 3rd was held on Nov. 26-28, 2008 at Univ. Auckland (New Zealand), and the 4th was held on Dec 2-4, 2009 at national Taiwan Univ (Taiwan). In the 1st meeting, deans or representatives from member universities got together to discuss about the cooperation programs, and reached an agreement to implement the following programs;
・ Annual meeting of Deans of Engineering Schools/Faculties.
・ Joint annual research symposiums.
・ Exchange of students.
・ Exchange of academic and administrative staffs.
・ Exchange of academic information and materials.
・ Other agreed academic exchanges and cooperation programs.
　The 5th deans meeting will be held in October, 2010 at Bandung Institute of technology, Indonesia with a graduate student conference.
　It must be noted that we included the exchange of administrative staffs in the program, since we must seek active support from administrative office to carry out the programs. Through these programs, we will be able to promote better understandings and relations between the universities.
　I hope the AOTULE grows into one of the most leading groups on engineering in the world. And I believe we have a high potential for pursuing superiority in the field of engineering.

Professor Huan-Jang KEH
The Executive Chair of AOTULE (the dean of the College of Engineering, National Taiwan University