Materials Science & Engineering

Biography

Prof. Chen is a world-renowned materials scientist. He received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University. He then taught at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and became a tenured full professor. Besides teaching and research, Prof. Chen is a distinguished figure of leadership in higher education. He has held positions as administrative fellow of the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and head of Metallurgy Division at UIUC, and chair professor and head of the Department of Physics and Materials Science at the City University of Hong Kong. In 2004, Prof. Chen was appointed president of Tunghai University. As a fervent advocate for liberal arts education at Tunghai University, Prof. Chen was the one who established Po-Ya School or “liberal arts school” through which students learnt under a nourishing whole person education that has knowledge and practice integrated together. Under the liberal arts education, Tunghai University has been able to have impressive accomplishments on the fronts of student enrollment, evaluation, teaching, research and discipline and counselling service. Prof. Chen has an impressive trajectory of research on materials science. He is the recipient of the Humboldt Research Award (2000) and Award for Outstanding Scholar in Taiwan (2005-2010). He is a Fellow of ASM-International since 1989, a Fellow of JSPS (Japan Society for Promotion of Science) and a Fellow of Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE). He was the principal editor of Materials Chemistry and Physics as well as a key reader and review board member of many world known journals.

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