The Absence of Soulware in Higher Education

The Absence of Soulware in Higher Education provides an analysis for promoting healthy soulware in the higher education sectors in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China from five angles: the internationalization of higher education, the integration of teaching and research, the separation of politics and education, quality and evaluation, and creativity and innovation.

Professor Way Kuo is President of City University of Hong Kong. He is a Member of US National Academy of Engineering, Academia Sinica in Taiwan, ROC, and Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong; and a Foreign Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering and Russian Academy of Engineering. Before joining CityU, Professor Kuo was on the Senior Management team of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and served as Dean of Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M University. He has worked at Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, before assuming the professorship at Iowa State University. He received PhD in engineering in 1980 from Kansas State University, and BS in nuclear engineering in 1972 from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. In 2011, he was granted Dr. Phil. Honoris Causa by the People’s Republic of China through Beijing Institute of Technology.