To cooperate with the development of "Ten Major Infrastructure Projects" and cultivate competent persons. Fushin Junior College of Technology was founded in March 1966 and was renamed Fushin Institute of Technology in 1983. In 2001, The Ministry of Education of the Republic of China approved the establishment of both four-year and two-year programs due to its commitment to quality in education and outstanding achievements. The FIT was thus upgraded and renamed Lan Yang Institute of Technology. Since then, the Institute has developed quickly and has earned an enviable reputation. Faculty and staff now number 136, and student enrollment is 1,830. Out of tens of thousands of them, many alumni make outstanding political or economic contributions worldwide.
Taiwan has long been the hub of communications in the Western Pacific. It has grown into a vital and robust entity in global economics owing to the government's devotion to the infrastructure of traditional education and industrial advancement. While people value the lifestyle of fashion and beauty and the living environment, more and more products and services with a humanistic design made by mechatronics engineering become critical and delicate. Lan Yang Institute of Technology is located in Lan Yang Plain, in the northeastern part of Taiwan, with a beautiful blue coast on one side and impressive green mountains. Hot springs, a museum, beautiful scenery, and simple folk customs attract many people fond of surfing, rafting, paragliding, and biking.
Basing in Taiwan, LYIT seeks intensive overseas academic exchange and cooperation from areas around the world.
Health and leisure management includes "health promotion, digital tourism, leisure and recreation, eco-tourism and exhibition management".
According to the "Tourism development vision" upheld by Tourism Bureau, Taiwan had achieved the goal of establishing itself as an island of industry, economy, and trade in the twentieth century while gearing towards the aim of making itself an island of green, technology-oriented, and silicon-islands in the twenty-first century.
As technology advances, it has brought fluctuation to workforce structure at workplaces and all walks of life, driving a booming catering industry where new food services are emerging one after another, and five-star hotels are amplifying rapidly. Given such a phenomenon, the Department of Hospitality Management was established in August 2014 to conform to the urgent needs arising in the new food services and five-star hotels for professional practice and management personnel.
The Department of Digital Marketing has, since its inception in August 2014, strived to equip students with professional knowledge on top of the cultivation of their self-confidence and skills by following the trends of integration of online and offline marketing using information technology and digital multimedia.
Also, because of the trend of green construction leading to the reconstruction and reutilization of existing living spaces, as well as in echo to the development of the regional leisure industry, the Department of Interior Design was established in August 2014 to cope with the increasing demand on professionals in interior design and decoration.
According to 2013 statistics on student number in the technical and vocational system, set-up of academic departments, and demands on the workforce in industries from The Ministry of Education of the Republic of China, the number of graduates in mechanics and electrical and electronic engineering in the technical and vocational education system has dropped 21.14 and 13.86 percent respectively in the past decade. However, demands on the industrial workforce during the same period were still intense.
As leisure consumption culture evolves in recent years, fashion and beauty industries have gradually expanded into ordinary people's daily living, rather than just satisfying the upper class's luxurious pursuit. The beauty services industry has witnessed rapid growth in the past decade, with an annual production of hundreds of billions of NT dollars. The overall trend of development of the beauty services industry has transformed from family-oriented operations in the old days into specialized, chain-style, or even comprehensive operations by enterprises or consortiums.
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