Department of Civil and Construction Engineering · Taiwan TechData reference: July 2026
jschou@mail.ntust.edu.tw
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National Academic Leadership, Professional Service, and Public Practice

Extending individual scholarship into program planning, professional communities, campus governance, and durable public value.

NSTC Civil and Hydraulic Engineering Program

Since 2024, Professor Chou has served as Program Chair of the Civil and Hydraulic Engineering Program in the Department of Engineering and Technologies at Taiwan's NSTC. He coordinates experts across structures, materials, water, transportation, geotechnics, architecture and urban systems, surveying, construction management, and civil-engineering informatics for research planning, proposal review, resource integration, dissemination, international collaboration, and early-career development.

16 Program Themes

Interdisciplinary agenda setting and integration of research resources.

13 Dissemination Events

Cross-domain research presentations and experience-sharing activities during 2024–2026.

500+ Outputs

Program and project outputs organized for academic, industrial, and policy exchange.

Professional Community Building

In 2024, Professor Chou convened scholars from universities across Taiwan to establish the Taiwan Construction Management Association and serves as its President. The association supports paper and thesis awards, industry exchange, international visits, and early-career development, linking national program planning with a sustained professional community.

Editorial, Review, and Professional Service

  • Field editor, guest editor, editorial board member, and long-term reviewer for international journals.
  • Initial and final reviews for NSTC proposals, Outstanding Research Awards, and academic honors.
  • Faculty appointment, promotion, award, and research reviews for MOE and universities in Taiwan and abroad.
  • Conference chair, committee member, keynote speaker, and invited lecturer.
  • Expert service for major engineering, finance, public debt, construction management, and technical decisions.

Multi-Campus Capital Projects and Sustainable Campus Governance

Since 2021, Professor Chou has served as Vice President for General Affairs and Director of Hsinchu Campus at Taiwan Tech, applying construction management, risk analysis, contract governance, energy management, and asset-maintenance expertise across the main campus, Hsinchu Campus, and Huaxia Campus. The portfolio includes capital projects, land integration, seismic retrofit, public safety, smart microgrids, energy, procurement, assets, maintenance, feasibility analysis, and digital administration.

Hsinchu Campus project recovery: the dossier records the recovery of NT$35 million in performance guarantees, NT$80 million in advance-payment guarantees plus interest, avoidance of more than NT$20 million in potential losses, and a first-instance judgment dismissing claims exceeding NT$200 million, enabling a stalled capital project to restart.

Public Value

Safety

Seismic, fire, construction, access, facade, and public-facility risk management.

Resilience

Microgrids, storage, power dispatch, emergency response, and critical-facility continuity.

Transparency

Institutional management of contracts, budgets, procurement, assets, funds, and decisions.

Sustainability

Adaptive reuse, low-carbon energy, circular resources, and long-term multi-campus development.

Source priority: formal records and official pages > the 2026 dossier > preserved legacy-site records. Dynamic citation and ranking metrics are dated.