Kun-Mu Chen This is Me

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1. 1. Taiwanese American Community Center of San Diego -- Clubs (English)

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   Published on: 6/24/2006   Last Visited: 8/15/2006

   Lecturer: Kun-Mu Chen
   
   Kun-Mu Chen graduated (B.S.) at the top of his class in 1955 from the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University. In 1957 he was selected as the recipient of C.T. Loo Fellowship to attend Harvard University to pursue the graduate study. In 1960 he earned a Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics and then went to Michigan to start his teaching and research career. He was at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, first and then in 1964 moved to Michigan State University at East Lansing. At Michigan State University he was promoted to a full professor rank at the age of 34, and when he retired in 1999 he held the title of an endowed chair professorship. During his teaching and research career of 40 years, Professor Chen has produced 46 Ph.D. students, about a quarter of them were from Taiwan. He has published more than 300 scientific papers, and acquired 54 research grants from various federal agencies. His career was recognized and honored for numerous awards including Outstanding Faculty Award, Excellent Research award, and others. One of the awards is the Science and Engineering Achievement Award from the Taiwanese American Foundation ( Los Angeles) in 1984. He was a visiting professor at Tohoku University in Japan, National Taiwan University and National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, and a number of famous universities in China.
   
   Professor Chen is a Fellow of both Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and American Association of Advancement of Sciences (AAAS). He is a nationally and internationally known scholar in electromagnetics. Before residing in San Diego after retirement, Professor Chen and his wife, Shun-Shun, had helped many Taiwanese students coming to study at Michigan State University for many years. Their home at East Lansing was a , Taiwan Center,, always welcoming Taiwanese students to spend their weekends.]
   
   This lecture of this subject is non-mathematical and Professor Chen will use layman language to explain and discuss the physics of electromagnetic wave and its applications.