TSMC Internal Instructor Training Camp and My Connection with Teaching Excellence Awards

In 2020, delivering a lecture at TSMC's Morris Chang Building to their internal instructors after the annual Teaching Excellence Award ceremony was truly special. The audience consisted of TSMC's finest internal trainers, and I happened to be one of them myself—a 2013 TSMC Teaching Excellence Award recipient.

My collaboration with TSMC began back in 2012. From 2012 to 2014, I had the honor of teaching "Professional Presentation Skills" at this world-leading company for three years. At the busiest times, I was teaching three days a month (alternating between Hsinchu and Taichung facilities), sometimes conducting back-to-back sessions across both locations. I delivered nearly 20 training sessions in a single year!

Apparently, I set some kind of satisfaction record at their training center. I found an old post-training evaluation report showing perfect scores across all instructor metrics—a complete sweep—and a Net Promoter Score of 100%.

I still vividly remember the strict security checks and laptops covered with security stickers everywhere.

After 2014, my schedule became increasingly packed with book writing and graduate studies, making it impossible to handle such intensive training loads. I reluctantly had to decline subsequent invitations.

Due to different priorities after 2014, I rarely visited TSMC anymore. However, I was later invited back as a keynote speaker for their annual Teaching Excellence Award instructor training camp, helping fellow trainers recharge their teaching batteries. Working with the world's most outstanding company remains one of my greatest honors!

Here's what participating instructors shared:

1. "Learned practical teaching techniques I can take away and use immediately"
2. "Enhanced my lecturing methods and expanded my teaching perspective"
3. "I discovered better approaches to help students absorb more content"
4. "Dr. Jeff used relatable, real-life examples as engaging entry points, making the interactive content easy to understand and absorb"
5. "Dr. Jeff's teaching was lively and dynamic, transforming content into activities that we could truly experience—an absolutely fantastic session"

I was organizing my materials today when this memory came to mind.

#I was also invited to share in Tainan
# I've taught in Hsinchu, Taichung, and Southern Taiwan Science Park