The Department of Electronic Engineering at National Chin-Yi University of Technology (NCUT) recently held an unveiling ceremony for the Embedded Microcontroller Talent Development Demonstration Base at the Robotics Sensing and Monitoring Laboratory (E617). Distinguished guests from academia and industry gathered to witness a new milestone in industry–academia collaboration and smart sensing talent cultivation.
   The project is led by Professor Han-Hung Kuo and is supported by the Ministry of Education’s 2025 Teaching Practice Research Program (Project No. PSK1143232). NCUT has partnered with global microcontroller leader Microchip to integrate teaching resources with industrial technologies and strengthen embedded systems education.
   Mr. Ta-Yuan Chien, Manager of Microchip Technology Taiwan, praised NCUT’s commitment to engineering education and expressed hope that equipment donations and technical exchanges would help bridge the gap between academia and industry. Dean Rong-Hsiang Cheng of the College of Electrical and Computer Engineering noted that the demonstration base significantly enhances students’ hands-on capabilities and research capacity.
   Microchip donated 35 ARM Cortex-M0+ embedded microcontroller kits, supporting a systematic, theme-based learning approach that guides students from fundamental concepts to system-level design. By using graphical code-generation tools and ML development platforms, students can improve development efficiency and lower the learning threshold for AI and machine learning applications.