Dr. Hsin-Piao
Chen is currently a professor in the Department of Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering at California State University, Long
Beach. He was Associate Professor in the Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics at the Cheng Kung University, Taiwan from 1984
to 1985. He has also served as a consultant to Douglas Aircraft
Company.
Dr. Chen received his B.S. degree in Engineering Science from
Cheng-Kung University, M.S. degree in Power Mechanical Engineering
from Tsing-Hua University and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering
from Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a member of the
Phi-Tau-Phi Scholastic Honor Society, an AIAA senior member,
and an active member of ICCE and ASME.
Dr. Chen's area of specialty is in structures and materials,
with a special emphasis on the analysis and design of composite
structures, finite element analysis, structural design optimization,
and aerospace structures. He has been involved in the NASA ICAPS
(Innovative Composite Aircraft Primary Structures) and HSR (High
Speed Research) programs since their inception and conducted
both experimental and computational work. He has been funded
by the Boeing Company to develop the technique of nonlinear
structural analysis and shape optimization for hole-drilling
in the manufacturing process.
Dr. Chen was a member of the technical team for the Long Beach
Public Safety Structural Seismic Upgrade Project, which is funded
via the FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.
Dr. Chen is currently the principal investigator for the research
project "Characterization and Detection of Delamination
in Smart Composite Structures," funded by the U.S. Army
Research Office to develop a delamination detection methodology
using a combined genetic algorithm and neural network technique.
Research and Publications
