Taiwan Association of Engineering and Technology Innovation
About TAETI
The Taiwan Association of Engineering and Technology Innovation (TAETI) was founded in 2011 in
Taiwan at its first meeting. At present, the location of the Association is in Yunlin County.
The Taiwan Association of Engineering and Technology Innovation (TAETI) operates for the purposes
of promoting professional engineering and technology innovation, improving related academic research,
and upgrading standards of current engineering and technology. Facing rapidly changing engineering and
technology needs and priorities, the TAETI works hard to maintain its strengths, while pursuing further
opportunities to help members. Today, TAETI has nearly 60 members, including the higher education
institutions and engineering and technology organization.
Aims & Scope
.To provide the most updated services to its members with engineering and technology innovation
in Taiwan and all over the world.
.To upgrade the qualify of current engineering and technology innovation and take care of society's needs.
.To promote research in engineering and technology innovation.
.To organize irregular academic meetings, conferences, exhibitions & other events or activities.
.To encourage cooperation among engineers and technologists and members of other professions
concerned with engineering and technology.
.To foster the engineering and technology development and to maintain the scientific stature with the
international organizations for engineering and technology innovation.
Present President
President Wen-Hsiang Hsieh
E-mail:allen@nfu.edu.tw
Website:http://sparc.nfu.edu.tw/~allen/
Dr. Wen-Hsiang Hsieh received his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University of Science and
Technology (NTUST) in 1989, and both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan in 1991 and 1998, respectively. His current
researches focus on mechanism design, bionics mechanisms, precision assemblies and systems, and
automatic machinery.
Since August 1991, he has been with the National Formosa University (NFU), Yunlin, Taiwan,
where he is currently a professor in Department of Automation Engineering. Dr. Hsieh was promoted
to be an associate professor, and a professor in 1999 and 2007, respectively. He also served as the
Director of Technical Licensing Office in 2005/03-2006/02, and the Head of the Technology Cooperation
Division of the NFU during 2004/08-2006/02.
Dr. Hsieh has published more than 100 papers in the areas of mechanism design, bionic mechanisms,
recycling devices, precision machinery, etc. He has already owned twelve Chinese Invention Patents till now,
and more than eight patents are under review. Moreover, he is the first author of the books - CATIAV5
Part Design (ISBN 986-7784-40-5) and CATIAV5 NC Machining (ISBN 986-129-344-2).
Currently Dr. Hsieh serves as the president of Taiwan Association of Engineering and Technology
Innovation (TAETI). He is also members of the Chinese Society of Mechanism and Machine Theory,
the Society of the Manufacturing Engineers (SME). Additionally, He served as a Program Chairman of
the First International conference on Engineering and Technology Innovation (ICETI2011). Committee
member of Automation 2005 (the Eighth International Conference on Automation Technology), the
Technical Chairman of ICAM2005 (2005 International Conferences on Advanced Manufacture),
he served as the Co-Chairman of Program Committee of Automation 2007 (the Ninth International
Conference on Automation Technology). He now serves as the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal
of Engineering and Technology Innovation (IJETI), a member of the Editorial Boards in
Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering, Journal of Engineering, Engineering Letters,
and Journal of Advanced Research in Optimization.