Four decades of change Although the various science departments at NTU grew in step with Taiwan's rapid development from an agricultural to an industrial and finally to a high-tech economy, some departments that had known glorious periods in the past were over time eliminated or transformed.
四十年風水輪流轉雖然台大各科系所的擴充，隨著台灣經濟快速發展而一路成長，但是當台灣由農業時代進入工業，再邁向高科技產業時，早年風光、歷史悠久的學系也因逐漸沒落而不得不轉型。