Taiwan Corning Display Glass Co., Ltd. recently held the 2020 Corning Star Creator Innovative Application Competition. This year the theme of this competition was "A small step in the local area, a big step into the world." To attain the goal of encouraging students to care about Taiwan, observe the existing problems in their hometown, and apply materials technology to developing products or programs that can solve and optimize people’s lives in Taiwan. The competition was quite fierce, attracting students from all colleges and universities in Taiwan to sign up. This year there were 335 entries. The NAN team of STUST, led by Assistant Professor Jin-Bo Shih of the Department of Electrical Engineering, stood out from the competitiors and won third place with their work "Guo Fu"—a set of environment-friendly bags for fruit.

[The NAN student team of STUST won third place in the 2020 Corning Star Creator Innovative Application Competition with their work "Guo Fu": (From left to right) Yu-Han Su, Jia-Shuan Chou, Assistant Professor Jin-Bo Shih, Yu-Rui Zheng, and Zhao-Yan Guo.]

The thematic work "Guo Fu," directed by Jin-Bo Shih, Assistant Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering of STUST, was created by NAN, an interdisciplinary team composed of Yu-Rui Zheng from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Yu-Han Su, Jia-Shuan Chou, and Zhao-Yan Guo graduate from the department of the Department of Creative Product Design. The lineup was quite strong. Among them, Yu-Rui Zheng is the first alumnus of the Future University Program of STUST, who is currently studying at the Medical School of National Sun Yat-Sen University.

[The NAN student team of STUST and General Manager Chong-Kai Tseng (third from right) of Taiwan Corning Display Glass Co., Ltd. had a group photo.]

This time, the third-placed work "Gu Fu"—a set of environment-friendly of bags for fruit, is based on the ecological structure of pupa protecting caterpillars. It uses Antimicrobial Corning®Gorilla®Glass magenta small greenhouse glass as the main material of its coating material. After the special coating process, the glass can resist the wavelength of sunlight, reduce damage to the fruit, and improve their quality. It is designed with a translucent surface to facilitate farmers to observe the condition of the fruit. While avoiding pests and bird damage, it can also improve fruit color, prevent sunburn, and use the reusable characteristics of glass to achieve the goal of environmental protection and sustainable operation. It is an excellent work.

Assistant Professor Jin-Bo Shih of the Department of Electrical Engineering, STUST, Advisor of the award-winning team, said that STUST has always encouraged teachers to lead students to participate in various competitions at home and abroad. It is, hoped that students can have solid training while learning, develop their core problem-solving skills through interdisciplinary cooperation. This brought the team the opportunity to learn to examine problems from different perspectives, to give full play to their strengths of integrating interdisciplinary expertise, and to jointly formulate solutions and implement project management under compressed schedule. Meanwhile, it is hoped that STUST can thereby demonstrate the characteristics of the technical and vocational education profession and cultivate more interdisciplinary elites with professional abilities, humanistic care, and great teamwork.