In recruiting professors, the school "offered the best possible conditions to attract a few top people," says Chang Fu-kuo, assistant professor in the Department of Aeronautics. Even if the first choice couldn't accept a chair, it didn't mean the second choice would get it.
尤其在師資上，學校「以極好的條件吸引一些非常頂尖的人來」，史丹福航空系副教授張福國說，當時即使某一領域的第一把交椅請不來，也不因此就找第二名的人。