Building Professional Competencies Indices in the Solar Energy Industry for the Engineering Education Curriculum

Table 1

The expert sampling list of Taiwan’s solar enterprises.

Distribution	Business item	The number of manufacturers	%	The size of sample collected (%)
Upstream	Silicon materials, silicon wafer materials	17	13.93	8 (47.06%)
Midstream		47	38.51	16 (34.04%)
	Solar cell	15	12.30
	Solar cell module	18	14.73
	Thin film solar cell module	9	7.38
	Dye-sensitized solar cell	3	2.46
	Concentrating solar cell module	2	1.64
Downstream		58	47.56	21 (36.21%)
	Solar PV system	39	31.98
	Solar PV power converter	10	8.20
	Solar PV access/supplier	9	7.38
Total		122	100	45 (100%)