Education and Training:
- Maintain and continuously enhance education quality; regularly update and improve the curriculum to align with the standards of developed countries, ensuring strong linkage between curriculum content, industrial practice, and societal needs.
- Implement quality assurance and accreditation of education programmes by reputable national and international organisations: achieve accreditation of the Building Materials Engineering Technology Programme in 2026 and the Materials Engineering Programme in 2028; ensure that the employment rate in discipline-related jobs one year after graduation exceeds 75%.
- Strengthen collaboration with enterprises and domestic and international universities to diversify education modes and modalities (joint training, franchising, customised training, training at enterprises), thereby responding to societal demands and leveraging stakeholder strengths.
- Expand education scale from undergraduate to master’s and doctoral levels; develop new programmes based on the Faculty’s strengths, such as Advanced and Functional Materials, Semiconductor Materials, Industrial and Production Management, and Circular Economy and Low-Emission Material Production.
- Maintain and develop strong research groups; promote the development and submission of ministerial-level, national-level, and collaborative domestic and international research projects in pioneering fields such as Materials Engineering, new building materials, solid-waste reuse, and emission reduction in material production.
- Upgrade and modernise laboratory facilities and equipment to support education and research through both internal and external funding sources, including research projects.
- Maintain and expand the student research movement in both scale and quality: ensure that more than 10% of students participate in research; organise and encourage student participation in scientific research, innovation, and entrepreneurship competitions, with a target of participating in or hosting one competition per year.
- Collaborate closely with the Institute of Research and Application for Tropical Building Materials to develop an effective science and technology enterprise model to promote consultancy services, technology transfer, applied product development, and innovation/start-up activities among staff and students.
- Maintain and increase scientific publications in reputable national and international journals; enhance joint publications with partners and participation in domestic and international conferences to strengthen the Faculty’s academic standing and international cooperation capacity: ensure an average of at least 0.6 scientific/technological publications per full-time lecturer per year, including at least 0.3 papers indexed in Web of Science or Scopus.
- Prioritise the recruitment and capacity development of highly qualified academic staff with strong expertise and professionalism, aligned with the scale and development direction of the Faculty: maintain a doctoral-degree ratio above 75% and achieve a total of 10 Professors and Associate Professors by 2035.
- Regularly organise training workshops, advanced professional development, and practical training activities to enhance knowledge, skills, professional competence, and research and teaching capacity for academic staff.
- Develop and expand collaboration with domestic and international enterprises to mobilise resources, diversify training activities and scientific research, and implement the “Government – Academia – Industry” linkage model to accelerate the transfer of research outcomes into industrial practice.
- Proactively and actively expand cooperation with domestic and international education institutions and research institutes to enhance education quality, research capability, and scientific publications through joint education programmes, collaborative research projects, and academic conferences.
