Gang Chen (engineer)

Gang Chen (Chinese: 陈刚; pinyin: Chén Gāng) is a Chinese-born American mechanical engineer and nanotechnologist. He is the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at MIT, and the past Head of the MIT Mechanical Engineering Department.[1] He directed the Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC Center), an Energy Frontier Research Center formerly funded by the US Department of Energy.[2] Chen is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.

The native form of this personal name is Chen Gang. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Gang Chen
Alma mater
Known forNanotechnology, Thermoelectricity, Nanoscale heat transfer
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsNanotechnology, Heat Transfer
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorChang-lin Tien
Websiteweb.mit.edu/nanoengineering/

Education
  • Bachelor's and master's degrees from the Energy and Power Engineering Department, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, respectively in 1984 and 1987.
  • PhD degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department, UC Berkeley, in 1993, under the supervision of Professor Chang-lin Tien.

Research career

Chen was an assistant professor at Duke University, a tenured associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, before being recruited by MIT in 2001. Chen has made major contributions to thermoelectricity, nanotechnology, and thermal engineering.

Awards and honors

Chen is a recipient of the K.C. Wong Education Foundation fellowship and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship (2002-3). He has received the NSF Young Investigator Award, an R&D 100 award (2008), and the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award (2008). He is a fellow of the AAAS, the APS, and the ASME. In 2010, he was elected a member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for contributions to heat transfer at the nanoscale and to thermoelectric energy conversion technology.[3]. He was elected as an academician of Academia Sinica (Taiwan) in the Division of Engineering Science in 2014.[4] In 2014, he also received the Nukiyama Memorial Award of the Heat Transfer Society of Japan. He was elected as a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on April 2018.[5]

References
  1. "Gang Chen named head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering". MIT News. Cambridge, MA. 2013-07-23. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
  2. "NanoEngineering Group, Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT".
  3. "Members of National Academy of Engineering".
  4. "Academician of Academia Sinica in Division of Engineering Science".
  5. "American Academy of Arts and Sciences".
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