National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (NPUST) accepted the donation of a Luxgen URX from Luxgen Motor Co., Ltd. (Luxgen) on Friday, November 14, 2025. Darius Tarng, who is Manager of the Luxgen’s Product Planning Department, represented his company at the ceremony where he presented the vehicle to NPUST’s president, Chin-Lung Chang. The vehicle will be used by the Department of Vehicle Engineering for teaching, practical training, and research, and will help the department enhance its hands-on instructional capacity and industry-academia connection.
The URX is one of Luxgen’s popular models currently on the market. With the generous donation, students and faculty can get hands on experience with a next-generation vehicle, learning about design details, technological applications, and system integration. The practical experience with advanced vehicle systems will enable students to quickly transition to the industry upon graduation.
In his address at the donation ceremony, NPUST President Chin-Lung Chang thanked Mr. Darius Tarng as well as the NPUST alumni, faculty and students who were present for their support. He highlighted that the Department of Vehicle Engineering has long emphasized cross-disciplinary integration and smart vehicle development, while actively incorporating Information Technology, AI, and AIoT. In this way they have consistently cultivated outstanding professionals who are highly recognized by the industry.
President Chang noted that the URX, which features vehicle-to-everything (V2X) connectivity, will serve as a valuable teaching and research platform and help the university keep abreast with the latest vehicle technology. This way they will be able to continue to narrow the gap between theory and practice and strengthen students’ practical skills for industry internships and employment.
COMMITMENT TO NEXT-GENERATION VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY
The NPUST Department of Vehicle Engineering focuses its teaching on areas such as Green Power Systems, Vehicle Electronics, Autonomous Driving, and Vehicle Structure and Materials. The department is committed to developing new-generation, safe, smart, green-powered autonomous vehicles.
Luxgen is one of Taiwan’s few automotive brands with complete independent research and development capabilities, and they are committed to a philosophy of “Independent R&D and Smart Innovation.” Some of the features of their URX model include an Active Safety Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS), a THINK+ 5.0 V2X system, along with multiple safety technologies. Their success demonstrates the R&D strength of Taiwan’s domestic automotive industry in smart technology and human-centric design.
Hopes are that the industry-academia collaboration between NPUST and Luxgen will help advance local automotive technology and nurture the next generation of R&D talent. The two parties plan to increase their cooperation in the future through joint research projects on vehicles and smart technology and work towards establishing a new paradigm for technical and vocational education in the domestic automotive sector.
