The Ministry of Education held a press conference announcing the results of the "Technical College Creativity in Machinery" on Monday, with ten technical schools displaying the fruits of their students labors. The products included an environmentally friendly non-electric low energy bicycle from the Chienkuo University of Technology and an environmentally friendly dual use cleaning and abrasive compound from the Chingyun University of Technology, both of which are already in the preliminary phases of mass production, along with four other featured products. All were well received by visitors.

Wang A-cheng, an associate professor at the Chingyun University of Technology, said that traditional abrasive compounds are full of chemicals and have a rigid shape, as well as being high in cost. The group of students used high molecular silicone with hard abrasive particles or magnetized abrasive added, so that the mixture could be used to abrade metal or porcelain. In conjunction with finishing tools, the compound can be used for polishing and grinding.

Wang says that the newly-developed silicone compound has excellent ductility and flow, and can also be shaped in various ways. It is ideally suited for irregular shapes or heavy duty cleaning, and does not pollute. It is easily processed, and costs only one-fifth the price of traditional abrasives.

Nankai College of Technology lecturers Lin Yao-chang and Chen He-yung worked to improve automobile lights. Traditional lighting methods see lights being inspected and checked against specifications after manufacturing is completed. If the products do not conform, further changes are needed to the structure of the lights and the molds, and the entire process must be repeated until the lights pass inspection.

The team used computer-assisted design and analysis methods to first do a reverse scan and rearrange the vehicle light structure, then a spectrometer software package to simulate actual illumination results for the light and compare it with the vehicles safe illumination ranges. Using the computer directly for these revisions saves a huge amount of energy and moldmaking costs, not to mention the time and costs for inspection personnel.

Kunshan University of Technologys "Proactive Tunnel CPU Cooling System" is a cube just eight centimeters on a side, about half the size of most cooling devices normally hung externally. The device can be installed inside a desktop computer case. Assistant professor Wang Sung-hao says that the heat dispersing device works twice as well as traditional heat pipes currently on the market, and are very well suited for use on quad core CPUs.

Chienkuo University of Technology presented its environmentally friendly mon-electric low energy bicycle, using several types of basic mechanical structures. The bike stores excess energy at any opportunity and releases it when needed to achieve optimal energy efficiency.