近十年來台灣的教育改革以掀風播浪的氣勢衝擊了社會的各角落，雖然改革的效果只能以雷聲大而雨滴小來形容，工程和科技教育也終於悄悄地趕上了改革的列車。
In the turmoil of thirst and cry for overall educational reform in Taiwan in recent years, the topic of engineering and technological education has finally followed suit.
The sweeping technological advances and changes of our Cyberspace Age seem to be the most obvious and direct factor which urges the reform and transformation of engineering and technology education. The export or exodus of manufacturing facilities to mainland China and southeast Asia has made the situation on Taiwan more critical and complicated. The need for more R&D and more high tech establishments in Taiwan to offset the manufacturing exodus have become a matter of fact in recent years. Young people are looking to high tech for high pay and high social esteem. Middle age workers are changing their jobs or returning to schools for reeducation. The concept of ”reeducation”-once a term with dark connotations --is now a fashion and trend received with positive affirmations for the job force in Taiwan. To cope with these new demands, the government on Taiwan through its Ministry of Education has implemented two major policies, namely the ”Second Educational Super-highway” and the ”Open Door” policies. Within the educational system itself, the development and promotion of interdisciplinary curricula to meet new industrial needs is also discussed. Furthermore, this article examines the tense and delicate balance between cutting edge (e.g., information) technologies and the technology/engineering educational system, and challenges the latter to take hold of the new technologies to its advantage. One such way is through the implementation of distant learning technology, which can provide two-way education between the university and industry.
