President Chiang Ching-kuo in a recent survey of the ten leading industrial sectors of the ROC economy--including steel, rail, highway, and nuclear power--found that in each of these a substantial proportion of the engineers had received their degrees at Chung Yuan.
例如在師資方面，韓院長每年至少出國一次，親自到國外各大學禮聘學人歸國任教；後來繼任校長的阮大年教授、現任校長尹士豪教授以及前任理學院院長曾天俊等，都在那時來到中原。在訂定制度、校園建設方面，那段期間也規畫得有條有理。