Dr. Jen-Yuan (James) Chang

Welcome to my pages at Washington State University!     Latest update on: 01/07/2008

 

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ASME ISPS’08 Conference                                                           

 

Before coming to WSU in early 2007, I had been working in data storage research, development, and manufacturing environment for many years.  The main reason that I changed my career is to seek opportunity to serve future engineers/scientists and make fundamental impact to their thinking.  After I commenced my appointment in WSU, I immediately found out that enriching technical content and expanding innovation possibilities for future engineers are more important than personal achievement,  the later of which is kind of limited as engineering students are the ones who will change our future and improve human lives.    I’m here to spread engineering seeds, nurture them with outlook to produce positive impact in engineering in near future.  My missions as a professor are:

 

1. To educate and equip undergraduate students with real-world engineering practices through teaching of fundamental engineering theories and hands-on projects.

2. To educate and prepare graduate students for global R&D opportunities through disciplined theoretical and experimental engineering approaches.

3. To participate in and collaborate with researchers and faculty members through interdisciplinary projects.

4. To serve engineering communities in local, national, and international scale.

 

Coming from high-tech industry, I believe only few can be superstars.  In fact, results generated by teamwork effort usually work much better than those created by single person.  I view myself as one of the many important elements in our higher engineering education system illustrated (if I may) in the following control loop.  Therefore, I do welcome any collaborative opportunities with companies or institutions that will provide research traineeship in form of research projects for our future engineers.