From August 1 to September 15, 2012, the program totally attracted twenty graduate students and Ph.D. candidates to participate in. Students were expected to directly operate various advanced instruments in different national laboratories. Under senior researchers’ instructions, they experienced the first training on what they had never learned in the schools.
The internship project provided diverse chances for students, like chip design, instrument technology, high-performance calculation, earthquake engineering research, experimental zoology, aerospace technology, technology policies and ocean technology, which also empowered them to broaden their vision.
Guen-Jie Wang, one of the interns in the NARL's National Chip Implementation Center (CIC) and a graduate student from Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering department of Sun Yat-Sen University, just shared a good story. Joining the R&D team concerning biomedical NARL-CIC chip and micro-fluid channel combination, he understood how to well use all the software and chip design facilities provided by the NARL-CIC. Such knowledge enabled him to systematically make plans and concretely complete each step of an experiment, so that a research idea could be put into well practice.
Heng-Hsu Lin, another participant who now majors in mechanical engineering in National Cheng-Kung University, is another participant who gained his own success. Joining in the research team that works on sensor measurement and optical path simulation in the NARL's National Space Organization(NSPO), Lin not only seized the chance to acquire knowledge and experience that he can hardly learn in the school, but also tried to integrated theories with experiments. He finally found out the optimal design of the optical path of fiber-optic gyroscope.
The NARL President, Dr. Liang-Gee Chen, spoke highly of those students who spent their whole summer vacation actually doing experiments in the national laboratories. He praised them as promising talents who worth training up.
Furthermore, the internship program, regarded as an initial test trial this time, is supposed to be scaled up as a better platform for more students next year. With commitment, passion and innovation, the NARL plans to open its resources for all the colleges and universities, aiming to work together with the academic to cultivate more high-tech talents who can really put what they have learned into actual practice.
