Kuan Chen - Associate Professor

Curriculum Vitae

CITIZENSHIP

U. S. A.

Education

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, spring 1981, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, spring 1976, National Taiwan University
B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, spring 1974, Chung Yuan UniversityMEMBERSHIPS
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Phi Kappa Phi
Sigma Xi

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer,
Micro fabrication, MEMS.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

7/88-Present
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies (7/87-6/91)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT 84112)8/97-7/99
Professor and Coordinator of the Center for Micro Fabrication Research
Department of Mechanical Engineering
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
(Taipei, Taiwan)

7/81-6/88
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Utah(Salt Lake City, UT 84112)

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Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Utah(Salt Lake City, UT 84112)

CONSULTING

A. Gammel Inc, 1988.
B. IOMEGA Inc., 1988.
C. Sarcos, 1990.
D. MRJ Inc., 1994 - 1997.
E. Innosystem Inc., 2002-present.

UNIVERSITY, PROFESSIONAL, AND PUBLIC SERVICES

(1990 – present)

COLLEGE COMMITTEES

Research Development Committee (member), 1991-1992.
College Council (dept. representative), 1994-1996.

IGERT

Equipment Committee (member), 2001- present.

DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEES

Graduate Committee, chair, 1987-1991, member, 2000-2002.
Library Committee(dept. representative), 1993-1996.
Honors Advisor for ME/CE dept., 1994-1997, 1999-present.
Graduate seminar coordinator, July 2001- June 2002.
Coordinator of the Heat Transfer Lab, 1991 - 1996
Search Committee (member), 2000, 1996,…etc.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

ASME Heat Transfer K - 15 Committee (member), 1990-1996.
Co-Chair, Session 43-PD-8 : Environmental Applications of Plasmas, 30th AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, 28, June – 1 July, 1999, Norfolk, VA.
Chair, Micro-scale Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow session, Conference 3795, SPIE 44th Annual Meeting and Exhibition, 18-23 July, Denver, CO, 1999.
Co-Chair, SPIE Conference on Terahertz and Gigahertz Electronics and Photonics II, 31 July – 1 August, 2000, San Diego, CA.

PUBLIC SERVICES

Taught FE review courses for ASME Utah Chapter.
Faculty Advisor, Chinese Student Society, University of Utah.
Board Member, The Chinese Engineers and Scientists Society of Utah, 1997.

RESEARCH GRANTS

PI, Co-PI, and participant of several funded research projects on Chemical Vapor Deposition, Smart Construction Module, Bernoulli Disk, etc.HONORS Best Thesis Award, The Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1976.
Listed in : Who's Who in the Frontiers of Science and Technology, Who's Who in the World, Outstanding Young Men of America 1985.

COURSES

Thermodynamics, Gas Dynamics, Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Viscous Flow, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Conduction, Convection, Thermal Radiation,
Non- Equilibrium Thermodynamics, Jet Propulsion, Aerodynamics.