The research rooms are packed with people before the entry deadline for any competition. When you see other students giving their all thinking and creating, sometimes submitting a dozen or so entries, you'll naturally push yourself to stay caught up, "says graduate student Liu Hsiang-ling, who snatched the 2009 iF and red dot awards for the silica gel" sticky cell phone "that sticks to car windows.
每逢比賽的截稿期間，研究室滿滿都是人，當你看到其他同學竭盡全力地構思創意，甚至丟了十餘件作品參賽，你自然而然就會鞭策自己不要落後。」曾以天然矽膠材質製作可黏貼在汽車車窗上的「貼紙手機」，而奪得 2009 年德國 iF、Red dot 等國際設計大獎的研究生劉香伶如此表示。