The Dahan Institute of Technology, previously named “Dahan Junior College of Engineering and Business” was founded on June 1977. The first Board of Directors was formally set up the same year that Mr. Lin, Chao-Gan was named as the board chairman and Professor Bee, Lain-Chung was elected as the first president. The three Branches of Day Division- Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Mineral Engineering were established. In the academic year of 1979, Professor Yang, So-Chun was invited to be the second president. The next year, the Branches for the five-year junior college, International Trade and Financial Taxation, were successively erected In July 1982, the Evening Division was established, and enrollment was open to students in the Department of Civil Engineering for a two-year program. In the year of 1983, the structure of Board of Directors was broadened, and Mr. Lin, Kun-Chung was assigned as the Chairman, Mr. Chen-Gin as the acting president. The same year, the Department of Accounting and Statistics was established, offering a five-year program and a two-year one for Finance and Taxation at Night School.