The visit to the InvesTaiwan Service Center (ITSC) was a surprise for me as I learned that opportunities to work at Taiwan are very open and easy to foreigners. This is certainly not a difficult issue to international graduate students since all we have to do is achieving certain points in order to meet governmental standards. Among the visited companies, MiTAC Information Technology Corp. gave us detailed information on traffic conditions in many countries. The traffic condition in my country, Vietnam, faces a huge problem because of an increasing population. One of the most efficient ways to solve this problem is through the metro system which is still under constructions. MiTAC has showed us that it provides an advanced solution for the operation and maintenance of the metro system. As a civil engineer, my interest is in works on structure and construction. Therefore, I was very eager to visit CTCI Corporation since I had known about this company a long time ago. I also had a chance to work in a CTCI project of testing NMB Splice Sleeve in 2017 with Professor Hsu Hsieh-Lung’s lab at the National Central University. These were the reasons why I had applied for the activity of 2017 Enterprise Visit. The trip gave me not only the opportunity to visit CTCI Corporation in person, but also allowed me to learn how a real business operates. I hope that I could become a member of CTCI Corporation in the future. Companies of Advantech, Rhymebusn, and HIWIN are in other fields which differ from my specialty of civil engineering. Nonetheless, these companies are extremely useful for my friends and other participants. They provide insight into Taiwan’s business operation. On the other hand, the trip was a good chance for me to make new friends from many other counties. They have great desire to work at Taiwanese companies as I do. Finally, I would like to extend a special thanks to the CTCI Foundation for holding this great trip.
