ping hsu: good afternoon. audience: good afternoon. hsu: thank you. welcome to silicon valley symposium series. this is a special section, as youprobably know that we have
3d printing and additive manufacturing journal, ourselves, students, who are doing the presentation. for those of you who are new here to the gti program presentation, i would like to spend a few minutes to walk throughthe gti program, and that they will do the trips and the reflection of their work.
first of all, how many of you arethinking about applying for gti? only a few hands here. [ laughs] okay. for those of you who have just been here because your instructor or other faculty member asked you to be there, i hope this is an opportunity to open your eyes. you probably didn't know what gti is all about. gti stands for global technology institute
was established in year 2004. so when we look back, it's about 13 years ago. at that time, the college of engineering, under the leadership of the former dean of engineering, professor belle wei who has receivedan endowment for about $1,000,000. okay. so the endowment came from theindustry ceos and professionals. they chipped in $1,000,000 to help you,the future engineer students to go abroad, to get the first hand informationby talking to the people over there. so that when you work in the field,when you graduate, you work in silicon valley, you'll be able to interface withall engineers in different districts.
no matter what kind of engineeringprogram you are, but you'll be able to interfacewith those people overseas. for example, your company is doing the design, doing the manufacturing, doing the service, doing all kinds of activities that requirechina, india, taiwan, japan, korea, and other parts of the worldto help you achieve the goal. and how would you be able to interfacewith those engineers overseas, when you just been inthis country for so long? so with this type of gti program,that will open your eye,
talk about a language you will not offend anyone, to make a collegiate manner, so your work willbe done quickly, efficiently, and effectively. and so, "oh no! this $100 is for you.to brighten your future, to open your eyes to make your career successful." so with that, professor jacob tsao,who is the professor with industrial systems engineering, upstairs, fourth floor. he pioneered, he took 25 studentsalong with several administrators to go to china and taiwan for two weeks. and the following three years, from 2004 to 2006,he did three years,
and then 2007 to 2010, professor agarwal, raghu agarwal, from mechanicalengineering, took over. he took students to india for three weeks--two weeks, i'm sorry, two weeks. but, there we found out the money is not sufficient to support these types of intensive travel, because we didn't touch the $1,000,000 principle. we used the accrued the interest to do the travel. and, as a result, in 2010 when i took over,we start to revamp the program. even though i did, for the first two years,took students to china and taiwan for two weeks, we went to beijing, shanghai, xi an, and all parts of china and taiwan to visit companies, universities,
but the expense was way too much to be sustainable. so, 2012, we revamped the program by having our students go to taiwan only at the cycu, which is chung yuan christian university,cycu for three weeks instead of two weeks. in that, they participated in four components. lectures, team projects, company businesstrips, and cultural trips. in that, they all learned a great deal. so today'san opportunity for them to present to you what they have learned from july 10thuntil july 31st this year. and it is a safe program, cannot be donewithout other people's help. so here i'd like to acknowledgea few people in the audience here.
professor bruce reynolds, can you pleasestand up and be recognized? [applause] thank you. professor reynolds has been theinstructor for tech198. if you are chosen to bethe candidate for gti scholar, you will be required to take a one semester course. that's usually in spring. in this case,it'll be spring 2017. you sign up for the course, and then by may,you'll be eligible to fly out to taiwan. also, i'd like to acknowledge professorpatricia backer, who has been helping
organizing, and coordinating the work. i also see the audience associate vice president, professor thalia anagnos. could you be recognized? she is also instrumental. she helped a lot of studentsget funding to help them travel, as well as encourage a lot of engineer students to take this opportunity to open up their career paths. i also see a few faces here. laura and lisa who are also with college of engineering helping out gti program. thank you very much. so i'll quickly go through the requirement for gti. gti application deadline is friday, 5pm, october 21st.
so you still have a little bit of timeto submit everything online. go to the gti application under college of engineering, you'll be able to see the application online. just submit it by 5pm, october 21st. in addition, you need to submit your transcript--unofficial transcript to the dean's office in 493. and then you complete your application. and after that, november 4th, we will evaluate based on the paperwork who has made the cut to the semi-final list. you'll be notified. if you make it, you'll be invitedto a face-to-face interview. that will be conducted fromnovember 14th to november 18th, by december 2nd, the finalists will be chosen,and then you'll have to sign up for tech198 class
that allows you to prepare for your travel,and also for your knowledge in taiwan any questions about the application process?so who will be eligible to apply? good gpa?of course. must be 2.5 above. you must have permanent residence. visa, permanent resident visa or u.s. citizen. you also need to show you have some engineering work, some leadership in student clubs, and volunteer in the community shows your potential, because this program is prepared for future engineer leaders, like many of you here.
so you need to show that. finally, but not the least, to show how this gti program is going to benefit you in your career. to convince judges that i am the one to be chosen for this trip. so if you cannot deliver that, you mightnot be able to be chosen for the finalists. any other questions? do i miss out anything? you could still ask questions.so here's the process for today. 16 people. can you all stand up? please be seated.
yeah, these people like many of you here to start with,a lot are wondering why i should be there and why should i do it? that took a whole year preparation, starting from now until july when they actually fly out. many of them, the first time flying out to asia by themselves. remember, no faculty. [laughs] traveled with them. it's all by themselves. i only send them to the airport and they just took off. three weeks in taiwan, they're basically going to a totally unknown world and they survived.
they will show you what they have learned. so today, the process as i said will be four areas. starting out with business, means the company tours, and the reason to do that is because lorenzo already did a nice videotape to show you how they depart from airport and go over to taiwan. so let's watch it go first. and thenthe second one will be the lectures. they took some lectures from theworld renowned experts at cycu. and then, the teamwork.they work with severalhundred students from all over the world at cycu for their team projects, and lastly, the cultural trips during the weekend. they'll present about eight minutes,with about two minutes for q&a,
and hopefully wrap entirely in 50 minutes. any questions? anything? a burning issue youwant to take care of right now? otherwise, i'll pass on to lorenzo. lorenzo pesino: hi everybody, my name is lorenzo pesino. man, this experience was probably one of the best experiences in my life and i'm not just saying that. i mean, you get engineering experience, you're traveling the world, and you're working with people from a whole bunch of different countries, and this isjust a little video i made of our experience. [video on screen]: hello.
[music playing] [indistinct][music overlapping] [video]: our research project was on thermophysical properties measurements for aqueous tertiary alkanolamine solutions as co2 absorbents. i mean, i guess you can say we're trying tosave the world, but we're not heroes. alright, no more. this is the sad part. [laughs] [music playing][laughs] alright, let's get to business. i mean, obviously from the video you can see that-- oh, i'm lorenzo pesino,
biomedical engineer graduating spring 2017. alex lim: hey guys, my name is alex lim.fourth year electrical engineer graduating in may. jonathan wong: i'm jonathan wong, electrical engineering major, graduating next fall 2017. arthur jen: my name is arthur jen. i'm an industrial systems engineering, i'm graduating eventually. [laughs] pesino: so we went to multiple places. one of the field trips places we went to was the industrial technology research institute. this company has played a big part from turningtaiwan from a labor-based country into more of a high tech based company, and their mission goals include r&d key technologies,
stimulating drive industrial development, generate economic value, and elevate social wellbeing. some of their achievements include over 21,000 patents. they have multiple r&d award products and r&d 100 award products are products that are recognized to have high potential for commercialization. this company has multiple international partners, and three major application domains includes smart living, quality health, sustainable environment. jen: alright, this is a hsinchu science park.it's their silicon valley over there. they called it silicon-- or it's their silicon valleybecause it's their kind of tech area. they called it that area because they--so our area is kind of
i don't know how to explain it, but there'suniversities here and we have a real big focus on technology, and that's what they wanted to do there,so they called it their silicon valley. it's next to their universities. and here are a couple other companiesthat they started. the tsmc is a one of their semiconductor companies,and it's one of the biggest in the world. they ship to all over, including apple and stuff like that. lim: so throughout the whole trip,we got to go on several field trips. and one of the companies i picked outwas pacific cycles. it's kind of like a factory museum. it's a bicycle factory and also an international designer workshop
that provides sort of a facilities for 40 different companies to produce bicycles. and it's been manufacturing forover 30 years based in taiwan. they produce these unique-- it's on a small-scale form.bicycle design not meant for mass production. and they have about 500 models, but theyalso produce only a handful of bikes. now you can see one of the examples is the birdy. it's like-- it's kind of like a bicycle that you haven'treally seen in the u.s. it's kind of small wheels, it's like unorthodox, i guess.so they say they had a ton of them. and they also won numerousdesign awards for their bicycles. and for the museum, they actually displayedall the models of bicycles that they produced.
and this is like one wall of maybe like 50,so yeah, you can tell there's a bunch. and they also offer test rides for like, electrical-- electric motored bicycles, maybe like the foldable bicycles, and several more. so yeah, that's cool. wong: so in taiwan, they do trash collectiona little different. they have these bright yellow trucks that go around playing classical music, [laughter] and instead of picking up garbage cans,
the people actually rush to the truckand throw in their own garbage so it's more exciting there. and you may wonder what happens with this trash. well, some of it goes to these incineration plants. the one we visited was located in bali. and the trash is dumped by the trucks into the incineration plant into a disposal area, then from there, a crane operator uses a crane topick up the trash and put it into an incinerator. in this one, they have three there, and each of thoseis capable of burning 450 tons of waste per day. and this excess thermal energy from the burningof the trash is converted to electricity,
and that electricity gets sent to consumers. and it can supply about 20,000 households per month. another aspect of the incineration plant is thatthey also don't focus solely on profits. they also focus on environmental protection and contributing to the surrounding community. so at first there was a big protest from thelocal citizens about having a trash incineration plant in their community, but they integratedthese various different centers and places that actually gave back to the community. jen: oh, i know that this might not sound very informative and stuff, but like, if you guys go, you guys will learn a lot more,and i know a lot of you guys are like,
"i'm not going to go to this thing," you know, but -- lim: that's why we show the video first. jen: yeah, but like--lim: do some justice. jen: like it's-- i don't know, it's a really cool experience and if any of you guys are on the fence about it, i really suggest-- just applying to it even if you're not really sure about it because like, it's, uh, i don't know, it's really--lim: you'll miss your window by friday. guys: yeah [laughs]jen: yeah, it's way more than just what it looks like. it's actually really cool, and you guys should-- oh, yeah. audience: so what if it's your first semester instead of being [unclear]
jen: you should apply. audience member: i mean, i'll still apply. i was just curious about that. hsu: i think we'll probably hold that untilwe finish presentation, how about that? because we still rush about 20 something minutes to have three presentations. i'll answer your question, thank you. lim: we'll get to you. [applause] jen: yeah, feel free-- you guys cancontact us as well individually.
[computer chime] team projects.man: you guys are third. we're third? oh, sorry about that.[laughs] sorry about that. we're going to stand over there? want to stand over there? jenny: hi everyone, my name-- yeah okay, sorry.hi everyone, my name is jenny. i'm a biomedical engineer,and i will be graduating spring 2017. marianne madrano: hello, i am marianne madrano,civil engineer, and i am graduating spring 2017. vincent chao: hi everyone, my name is vincent chao. i'm an electrical engineering student,
and i'm graduating this december. geraldo reyes: and my name is geraldo.i'm a graduating senior in civil engineering, and i graduate this december as well. dr. [chung?], the lectures presentation. woman: is it not on there? everything okay?hsu: something wrong? student: where's the lectures presentation? lectures. oh no!
[indistinct] [chuckles] technical difficulties. [microphone drops] pesino: [off-screen] anybody have questions thatthey still wanted to ask? audience member: under field trips, did you go with the students from the other country or--? pesino: yes, we did. so there's two tracks, the business track and the engineering track. and then the engineers, they had that choice. they also wanted to explore the business track, and then so the business people,
they'd go on business trips where they talked about companies that had the business aspect, and then the engineering students, they talked with companies on the engineering aspect. in my presentation, i wish i could have shown you more pictures of products, but they were pretty confidential on the projects that they're developing, so if you want to see it, you have to see it for yourself. oh, and actually, it helped my experience. so initially when i got off the airport,i was talking like normal, like, "okay, so, we're going to be at [unclear]" [unclear, laughs] geraldo: who's starting? who's starting?[indistinct]
pesino: communicate-- they speak a little bit slower, speak a little bit more clearer, and i usually [indistinct] and um, yeah, it was a little bit harder [unclear] communicate with people from different countries, and we learned new ways to communicate-- not just like, you know, normal talking to your regular colleague. woman: there were guides too, so we had students from cycu translate what we said and other things, but most people spoke english. we just needed to be really slow and share what we were saying. so, yeah. jenny man: we can take questions laterafter this presentation, if that's fine. okay. okay, so um... [unclear] so to start out our presentation, the first half of the lectures will be from the ii/ale group,
which is the engineering group. and in lecture 1, it was basically an introduction to taiwan by professor dylan sung from cycu. and the two main topics that he discussedwere cultural and educational values. so in taiwan, cultural values include filial piety,which is basically one's duty of respect for one's parents and elderly family members. so when you're older, your duty is totake care of your parents. and another thing in taiwan is thatthey see things in holistic views. so basically, if i were to give you, like,three lists of words. like dog, seagull, and sky.
how would you group these? would you group the dog and the seagull because they're animals? or the seagull and sky because seagulls fly in the sky? well in taiwan, they would actuallygroup the seagull and the sky, because it's actually a holistic view of the picture. and when it comes to educational values, in taiwan, the professors and teachers actually act as a life mentor, which-- throughout your whole life, and alsostudents in taiwan tend to listen more. they actually challenge their professors, which is pretty much the opposite here in america. and next is the lecture 2, which was given bymatthew petering from university of milwaukee. and he basically talked about the operational challenges in the global containers shipping industry.
and two main challenges that he talked aboutwere the planning and operational decisions so when it comes to planning, you have to take into consideration of challenges, such as what type of cargo will you be handling, and how will you organize these cargo shipments onto vessels? and when it comes to operation decisions, you have to think about what type of equipment you will be using to handle the cargo, and also who you will assign to actually work on vessels. the challenge with decision making is that you actually get an average of one second to make these decisions, which is very stressful, and there a lot it's a lot of pressure, and that's really challenging. so when it comes to poor planning and poor decision making, it can result in accidents, such as you can see in this picture where there's an imbalanced weight of these cargos that were put on these vessels.
so what happened is that the vessel would actually tip over, and sometimes they would even crack in half. now, i'll be handing it over to vincent. vincent chao: alright, so with the next two lectures that the engineering track had, the first one was by professor joe vanstromof iowa state university. when he began his lecture, he approached itwith the idea that a majority of the audience wasn't from the united states. there are studentsfrom taiwan, from china, from japan, the philippines, all these other countries who'venever even been to the united states. so at the beginning of his lecture he actually began with just introducing where iowa state university was, different places in the united states, just giving people kind of an idea of what the united states is like,
so you can get an idea of where he's coming from. his primary topic of his lecture was manufacturing processes including things, such as 3d printing. processes such as subtractive, additive, and.. i forgot the last one. but, he brought in several actual 3d printed models from his own laboratory and several of these included functional moving parts and showed that these can be scaled up to industrial sized with just the technology we have right now. the next slide shared by professor sen nieh in catholic university of america. he was actually a student from taiwan but completed his doctorate in washington d.c. at this university. his primary focus of his lecture was energy and power systems, such as like utility systems,
environmental impacts such as ozone depletion and pollution, and green energy, and energy and power in taiwan because that is the area he's most familiar with. next, marianne. marianne medrano: lecture five was thinking outside the box: innovation and creativity by professor george huangfrom wright state university. i thought he was interesting,because wright state, where's that? oh, wright, like the wright brothers. in his lecture, he's saying that education can comefrom anywhere, and ideas can come from anywhere. the wright brothers, they didn't finish college,and only one of them finished high school,
and they invented airplanes. you can get your information from anywhere. one of the things he's working on was a study on how hummingbirds flap their wings and one of my favorite quotesfrom him, from this lecture was, "what you learn in school is important, but how you apply them is what's essential." and then, this last lecture waswhere the power industry is heading, and basically, it's smart grids are
where we are-- what we are trying to do, because we're trying to integratemore renewable resources to supply our electrical energy, butthen solar power is very-- like up and down, because the sun is up,and then it's down, so we're trying to find waysto use smart grids to use that. and also, we used his lecture in our presentationin taiwan for our final presentation. geraldo reyes: just cause we're running short on time, i'll make this short and sweet. so i was part of the ele track,and ours was a little different. ours was more tailored to helping outone of three companies come up with
an idea to either help them gain more popularityor to somehow gain more revenue. in our first lecture, it was not ming li,but po li who led the presentation, and it was more of an ice breaker and in this picture here, there were about 30-40 students in the ele trackand we somehow had to fit ourselves all in a a six by six square, and we fell many times, but it was fun because we kept encouraging each other. for lecture two and three, we had heng chiu who has won a few awards forhis 30-second commercials, and he helped us learn the fundamentals of writing a good script and developing a good short film. and in this picture here, we're making a sceneon paper including dialog for--
a scene that includes a girl slapping a guy, and we kind of had to make that up,and that was pretty fun. for the third lecture, we actually made the film, and then went into the computer lab and edited it. for the fourth lecture, we had-- fourth and fifth lecture we had ming li, and in the first one we-- it was sort of an extension of the short film, and essentially he covered like how to tell a good story, how to edit a film, and how to share the value of the company within the film. for the next lecture, he showed us different ways on how to market the product, and then he even went on to mention how virtual reality, vr, is becoming-- is going to become a new tool to market products. for the sixth lecture we had presenters from japan, and they-- hiraoki, in the beginning he kind of
had us do like a self-assessment on life, and we wrote in this small journals, and we judged where we were in life. and then, hanae kind of went on to talk about her business of selling rusks in japan, and multiple outlets on how to reach customers. here in this picture at the end of the presentation, we kind of learned how to do these japanese stands, and that was a lot of fun. for lecture seven we had cynthia lee present, and she talked about different risks that come along with the company and in that photo right there, i have my group and our company was shuanglian pear, and we had to think about competitors or any kind of natural disasters that can hurt the company for making pears.
that is it. thank you. tony: hi guys, so my name is tony. i'm a industrial systems engineer and-- yeah. we're going to be talking about the team projects, so the projects that we actually did for this program. michelle espinosa: hello, my name is michelle espinosa. my major is mechanical engineering and i'll be graduating 2018. anthony aliaga: hi, my name is anthony aliaga,and my major is civil environmental engineering. brent: hello, i'm brent. i'm a computer engineer,and i'll be graduating fall 2018. aliaga: so mainly the overview ofour presentation is on the projects. there were three different groupsthat you could choose from.
ideally there were two groups inengineering and one in business. the full name is the international industrial - entrepreneurial leadership experience or the academic leadership experience and this is where you'll at least divide onwhether you want to go on a business route, or continue in engineering route with your research. espinosa: so if you do plan to apply, there isa process of choosing the project you want. you'll get a list of all the projects that aregoing to be available when you go to taiwan. you're going to rate them from yourfirst choice to your last choice, and after that, once you arrive to taiwan,you'll know who your group is.
so you don't know what projectyou'll get until you arrive in taiwan. tony: okay, so i took the business track, the ele track, and i'm just going to talk briefly about the start-ups we worked with.obviously you'll be different for the next year, but just to give you an idea of thekind of companies we worked with. there was fantasy story, which was a-- basicallywhat they did was they leased out really old, underused buildings, and they revampedthem to house upcoming businesses. so basically they were like mini incubators. that was a company that i worked with. the other company was shuanglian pear,
which they sold asian pears to get-- to supportlocal businesses and support their schools. and then the final one was green hope spring,which was they produced tea leaves to preserve the life of an endangered camphor tree. so a little bit about the projects. what we did was we brainstormed a new idea that would kind of bolster the business. that took a lot of the lectures that we had, gave us some idea and someintrospect to how we could do that. after that, we created a shortfilm in that film class, and we-- for our idea we had to build a business model
and prove why it would help. so that was a very impactful thing, i think. it helped us kind of zone in andcome up with a single solution. yeah, and that was the business track. aliaga: so from the engineering side, we had to originally get to choose fromeight different topics on one team, and eight different topics on another team. all these topics were ranged from biomedical engineering to electrical engineering, computer, civil engineering, or environmental analysis.
it's really geared to what you want to anything you want to study. later on, there'll be a video that i will show more of what each team was working on hands-on, but this was from group a initially. lorenzo was working on this oneup top with co2 absorbents and that's where he was really involved in the lab,and more hands-on on testing. then there's also ones where you're developingtracking systems for microscopes, which was a pretty cool project overall. my project that i got to participate on was the nanomechanical properties of gold nano wires, and we got to use computer simulationsand investigations to that.
michelle was also participating ona couple projects in the group as well. brent: so i'm going to talk about my engineering project. so the topic that i chose in the program was vision based interactive multimedia systems. once you land into the country and get situated, you'll enter your lab room, and you'll beable to meet with your lab mates. one of the first tasks you would do is brainstorm some ideas on why you chose this topic. the reason why i chose this is because i believe that there was a potential in vision-based systems, such as the virtual reality market thatwe have here in america. so we developed this vision based using not virtual reality but more physical,
so we started developing, or actually, we started talking about our hobbies and one of our hobbies is video games, so one of the cool parts is thatwe integrated the xbox 360 kinect and used that in our project. so for the next two weeks westarted developing programs for it, and as you can see from-- to your right, we utilized a projectorand a xbox 360 kinect. we also utilized its sensors, such as infrared and its vision based systems and thetwo programs we created was
in the bottom, a sand box using topography and in the top where we created a game whereyou used that topography system to build taiwan. overall, our project placed third in the competition. espinosa: so my group, i was in the designinga four-axis industrial robot arm. i won't go too in detail about what i did for this project. i will tell you more about the opportunities you have if you do decide to get into the gti program. so as students we're taking these classes and we're learning these skills, some of them maybe are doing on creo, so you get the chance to actually apply these skills and to design a robot arm.
so that's really somethingthat you get to experience there. we also did 3d printing a lot for our group. so you also get to design-- well, for our group, there were three of us designing different parts. so all of us got the chance to maybe incorporatesome part of our design into our final product. and then, we also worked with a master's studentat cycu so you get to learn about what projectsthey're researching and implement on their ideas and improve it. so then we also, for the project competition, you're presenting in front of professors and students
and then your presentation is evaluated. and then, towards the end, i think the last dayyou're in a banquet and they'll announce the winners there. so a lot of us actually won prizes.my team won 2nd prize. anthony's team won 1st place. i believe for group b, there was another groupthat won 3rd place. so that was amazing. so this is the video basicallyabout some of the research projects and what the teams were able to develop over all.
[music] so, mainly starting out, there were other developments as far as biomedical systems and more research based computer work. here was more a cg return signalfor emergency assistance. that was lorenzo's. co2 absorbant. that was jenny's and my projecton nanomaterial simulations. and although we were developedand split up into different teams each group was just kind of getting the opportunity to work within the engineering building
whether it was on different floors or in different labs and so you kind of get a more ofa hands-on feel with being independent and having your own group work. as well as working together and trying to identifyhow to accomplish certain problems. how to make key milestones. how to achieve goalswithin your three week time frame. espinosa: so we won't show too many of the slidesbecause we're running short on time. so we'll just show one or two more. aliaga: but overall it's a very rewarding experiencethat everybody gets as an engineering student
or as a student throughout your college career. definitely pursuing something like thiswas something that i always wanted to do with my college career overall and it gives you very much a leg up on any competition for working internationally with other companies if you want to do that with your future or pursue something different, but overall, it's a really great experience. miguel ibarra: so hello everybodymy name is miguel ibarra. i'm a fourth year mechanical engineering student.
i graduate 2018. than nguyen: i'm than nguyen. i'm afourth year materials engineering student. i'll hopefully graduate next semester. runzhi lin: i'm runzhi lin. i'm industrial systems engineering. i'll be graduating in spring 17. maria ramirez: maria ramirez. i am a chemical engineer,and i'll be graduating spring 2017. ibarra: so during our stay in taiwan,we go to two cultural trips. once each week on saturdays. for the first cultural trip, we went tothe formosa aboriginal culture village.
right after that we go to another location,which was the sun moon lake, followed by the fengjia night market. it's one of the largest night markets in taiwan. in the following cultural trip, we wentto yilan dongshan river park, as you saw in lorenzo's video,which was we went to a water park. the following, we went to lanyang museum, and then we went to the waiao beach, where lorenzo and arthur got stung by a jellyfish. nguyen: sorry about that. so the first place wewent to was formosa aboriginal culture village. you saw they had people came over, and wedanced with them, and there were a lot of music,
amusement rides, cultural shows. it was really cool. they actually-- we should have more pictures,but they did have sites where you could see places where the actual tribes were,and you could even do archery, really. it was really cool. lin: so i'm just going to quickly go over the highlightssince most of you guys saw these, and the previous video that lorenzo showed. so for the sun moon lake, i believeit was mainly for just sceneries and-- i'm all about food, so that's why i put this picture of this-- i guess it's like a local specialty
that's chicken skin, wrapped, andinside it's filled with seasoned rice. it was one of like the best food i had that day. ramirez: so pretty much night marketsin taiwan are very, very crowded. it's like a traffic jam with a bunchof people just walking everywhere. my favorite part of the night market was reallyinteracting with the other students from taiwan, and i got to learn a lot from them and their culture,and their customs, things that they do, they don't do, and i think that was the most interesting part. ibarra: when we went to the river park, we were alsoable to participate in dragon boat racing, as you can see in the bottom left video.
we were also able to go on the rides,kind of a big river park. we were able to see thedifferences from their river parks-- their water parks compared to our waterparks, and how over there it's more open. they are a lot bigger too compared to over here.we have a lot more rides though. nguyen: and one of the last places we went toin the second week was lanyang museum. it was actually really cool. you saw the architecture, what it looked like. and then, that's the inside of it, and inside they also have exhibits whereyou can see more parts of taiwanese culture.
it was really pretty. lin: this was also on the second week,where we went on a beach. i'm not sure if anyone mentioned this earlier,but on the two or three sundays, we have free time, where we can goanywhere we want to explore in taiwan. so here, lorenzo and otherswent on surfing and parasailing.
this was during a sunday, i believe. so you can actually choose where you want to go,and a couple of us went to taipei to visit the taipei 101, which is one of the tallestbuildings-- well, the tallest building in taiwan. ibarra: that's pretty much it. any questions?
