The 2nd Global Alliance Lab between Tamkang University and University of Electro-Communications

The 2nd Global Alliance Lab (GAL) between Tamkang University (TKU, Taiwn) and University of Electro-Communications (UEC, Tokyo) was set up at both universities on 24th October 2014 with the help of the Office for Advanced IT and Global Creative Engineering Education at UEC. The main scheme of the TKU - UEC GAL includes international collaboration in academic activities such as bi-directional students exchange programs, internships, exchange of special lectures by the faculties as well as international collaboration research.

This special international lab is organized by the steering committee (Fig.2) and a Joint Degree Program will be also be a goal in the future.

One of the unique features of GAL is that both universities can set up one room/lab for themselves on each other's campus for use by faculty, researchers and students to expedite their missions. The TKU - UEC GAL conducts continuous international collaboration activities for each other. Since 2009 students from both universities have collaborated to design, develop, and complete an internet-based cross-over style remote control robot system (Fig.3 and Fig.4) with the financial support of UEC CADET project.

Prof. Ching-Chang Wong, Director of Intelligent Automation and Robotics Center (TKU) is a leader of one of the famous robot teams of the FIRA Robot Soccer Cup Competition. The team has received many awards at robot competitions. There are plans to open other GALs in Thailand, Russia, China, France, and USA.