The Tatung Co., Taiwan's largest consumer electronics manufacturer, visited the department last summer.

Tatung's visitors included Mr. W. S. Lin, President of Tatung Co. and former Maryland student; Ms. Pamela K. Lin, Maryland alumna and Special Assistant to the Chairman & Senior General Manager of the Global Computing, Communications and Consumer Business Group; and Dr. Robert K. C. Chan, Director of Tatung. All three visitors met with William Destler, Dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering, and several EE faculty members. They also toured four of the department's laboratories.

Mr. and Ms. Lin were both honored in September with the University of Maryland's 1997 International Alumni of the Year Award.

The Tatung Co. manufactures products ranging from televisions, faxes, PC's, workstations and telephones to rice cookers, refrigerators, motors, elevators, and escalators. Tatung distributes more than 300 different products to over 100 countries worldwide, and has more than two dozen international subsidiaries. In the U.S., Tatung Co. of America makes monitors, graphics boards, PCs and consumer electronics, while Tatung Telecom Corp. develops telecommunications equipment. The company is a major supplier of PC components to Packard Bell. Tatung will manufacture semiconductors in the U.S. through a new joint venture with Honeywell.