2024-05-182024-05-18https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/714749The Institute started both the M.S. and Ph.D. degree programs with seven faculty members and thirty-eight graduate students in the Fall of 1984. It has grown to the current size of 30 faculty members and 191 graduate students (155 M.S. students and 36 Ph.D. students). The Institute is aimed to cultivate high-level talented persons in advanced mechanics. All the graduate students are required to be well trained in mechanics by taking mathematics, theoretical and experimental courses. The research of the Institute was originally targeted at defense-related basic research. Since 1994, the Institute has been diverting toward scientific and technological trends of the world that meet the needs of the nation’s development. Over the past 30 years, the Institute has developed strengths in several fields, which include dynamics and control, mechanics of materials, waves in continuum media, hydrodynamics and aerodynamics, two- and multi-phase flow, micro- and nano- electro-mechanical systems (MEMS & NEMS), biomechanics and imaging, and micro- and nano-fluidics as well as in energy and environmental research. Recently, the faculty members have further identified three major fields in connection with ‘mechanics in nano- revolution’: Waves and MEMS/NEMS: with focus on the analyses and applications of the elastic waves and electromagnetic waves and their interactions; Nano-biomechanics: with focus on the examination of characteristics and interactions of micro- or nano-scale biological structures by mechanics approach; Meso-scale Mechanics, with focus on the exploration of the analytic, experimental, and computational aspects of the systems in multi-scales. In addition to the above sketch of research strengths of the Institute, there are always new research results coming up out of innovative ideas and intensified efforts by the faculty and the students of the Institute.力學為工程之基礎，近世紀之吊橋與摩天樓、飛機、潛水艇、火箭，以及新近之人造衛星、微機電系統與電子構裝等重大工程技術之發展，皆係根據固體力學、流體力學、動力學等各科之理論發展，進行分析與計算、量測與實驗，進而訂定工程技術，作為設計與製造之根本。而本所目前積極推動大型整合研究，以理論、實驗及數值分析三者並重之方式，探討在力學、生醫及機電系統研究中具學術及應用價值之重點問題，並培育力學、生醫及機電系統整合人才，奠定國際學術聲譽及協助國內產業發展。 本所自年成立以來，逐年增聘教師，擴充設備，並不斷加強規劃所內研究重點的教學與研究。目前已有專任教師30名（含2位合聘教授），研究生約201名，並且不定期邀請國外資深學者，前來傳授專門課程，參與研究工作。 自83年起，本所研發方向大致由國防科技轉型為配合國內重大經濟產業建設，以增設方案期間建立之研究設備與優秀研究人力為基礎，洞察現在力學發展趨勢，迅速投入我國關鍵產業技術之研發行列。 每年相關研究計畫包括： （一）科技部專題研究計畫 （二）產學合作計畫 （三）教育部委託研究計畫 （四）國防基金委託研究計畫 （五）經濟部學界科專計畫 （六）業界建教合作計畫 每年經費超過新台幣一億元。 目前研究重點如下： （一）波動與微/奈米機電系統 （二）生醫與能源系統 （三）跨尺度力學系統 應力所目前有博士班研究生27人，碩士班研究生174人，在教師的領導下形成一支強大的研究團隊。應力所的師生比為6.7，與美國哈佛大學的師生比6、日本東京大學6相當。 除了堅強的師資陣容與研究人員外，應力所還有六位優秀的技術人員可以支援教學與研究工作，兩位組員、兩位約用人員可支援行政工作。 我們相信，在應力所全體教職員與學生的共同努力之下，我們將會不斷的成長茁壯，在研究及教育上，盡最大的努力有最好的表現。Academic Institute