Dr. Hsun Chen
is currently a professor in the Department of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering at California State University, Long Beach.
She is also the Undergraduate Advisor for the BSAE program.
Dr. Chen received her BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from
National Cheng-Kung University, MS degree in Power Mechanical
Engineering from National Tsing-Hua University and Ph.D. in
Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.
She joined CSULB in 1985. Dr. Chen is an Associate Fellow of
AIAA, an Aircraft Icing Specialist of SAE Aircraft Icing Subcommittee
and the recipient of the 1993 CSULB Distinguished Faculty Scholarly
and Creative Achievement Award.
Dr. Chen has been involved with research activities in Computational
Fluid Dynamics (CFD), including the aircraft icing problem,
boundary layer transition and stability, calculation of low
Reynolds number flows, and aeroelastic analysis. She has more
than 30 years' experience in CFD and FORTRAN coding. Recently,
she has been working on a CCDoTT (Center for the Commercial
Deployment of Transportation Technologies) project to develop
CFD tools with applications in design and optimization of ship
hull forms. Work accomplished under this project includes the
development of methods and computer programs to solve the nonlinear
free surface problem. She has also worked on a drilling process
study project funded by the Boeing Company. The objective of
this project is to develop analytical tools and a database to
design drilling processes and tools for manufacturing industries.
Laboratory tests using coupons simulating the C-17 parts have
been conducted by students in the Department under Dr. Chen's
supervision.
Dr. Chen has published over fifty technical papers since she
joined CSULB. She has worked as a Principle Investigator for
contracts totaling more than $260,000.
Research and
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