Our Department was founded in 1983, becoming the first department of design to be established by a Taiwan university. The Department Building formally was a section of the girls’ dorm, which consisted of three buildings: Faith, Hope and Love – of these three, Love was remodeled to house the department. The department’s founding director was Mr. Ze-hai Chung , who hired renowned teachers to fill the teaching posts. In 1991, he also applied for the establishment of the Master’s Seminary. In 1992 Mr. Chian-yeun Chang took over and became the second director of the department. In the same year the Department merged with the departments of Architecture and Business Design to establish the first College of Design in the country. In 1993 the Department formally established its Research Institute, becoming the first master’s interior design seminary in the country. In 1994, Mr. Chie-peng Chen became the third director of the Department and during his term he implemented the partitioning in the offices and renovated the lecture hall, materials room and the practice coffee bar. In 1999 the Master’s Program for Working Professionals was established allowing the industry’s elite to return for studies and receive training in humanities, local experience and concepts of technological integration; thereby emphasizing the equal importance of the role design talent play in professional training and academic research.
