Biographical Sketch
Education:
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
and Jet Propulsion, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,
CA 1984
M.S. Mechanical Engineering,
The Pennsylvania State University, 1980
B.S. Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing
Hua University, Taiwan 1976
Positions
Held:
- The Pennslvania State University, 1985-Present
- Visiting Associate Professor of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Spring 1993
- Visiting Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Fall 1992
- Research Fellow in Jet Propulsion, California Institute of Technology, 1984-1985
- Texas Instruments, 1976
- Premier Research Awarc, Penn State Engineering Society, 2005
- Distinguished Professor, 2003
- Outstanding Research Award, Penn State Engineering Society, 1992
- Outstanding Teaching Award, Penn State Engineering Society, 1989
- Department Head Faculty Award, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, 1994
- AIAA Best Paper in Propellants and Combustion, 1995
Affiliations:
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Fellow (AIAA)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow (ASME)
- The Combustion Institute
- Institute for Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems (ILASS)
- Propulsion Engineering Research Center
- Center for Acoustics and Vibration