Dr. T.C. Yih
Dr. T.C. Yih
Associate Vice President, Research and External Support
Tachung “T.C.” Yih began serving as associate vice president (AVP) for research and external support at CSULB in August 2010.
A professor of engineering, Dr. Yih came to CSULB from Oakland University (OU) in Michigan, where he was vice provost for the Office of Grants, Contracts and Sponsored Research and the founding director for the NanoTech R & D Institute, created in February 2009.
Prior to joining OU, Dr.Yih was a professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Biomechanics at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), where he initiated the university’s Ph.D. program in mechanical engineering and recruited a $1 million endowed chair professor for the campus. It was also at UTSA where Dr. Yih began serving as an Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) program evaluator.
Dr. Yih has also been on the faculty at the University of Texas at Arlington (1999-2004) and Florida International University (1988-99). He was a senior summer research fellow at Naval Air Systems Command in Maryland working in the Software Technology and Environments Branch (1997-99) and a summer research fellow in the Robotics and Process Systems Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee (1995). Dr. Yih had conducted research in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California during his sabbatical leave (1993-94).
Dr. Yih earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at The Catholic University of American (CUA) in Washington D.C., in February 1988, specializing in design/analysis of mechanical systems, CAD/CAE knowledge-based software development and biomedical engineering. He also obtained his M.S. in mechanical engineering at CUA in 1983, focusing on thermal science and solar energy. Dr. Yih received his B.S. in oceanography/marine engineering in 1981 from National Taiwan Ocean University/College of Marine Science and Technology in Taiwan with an emphasis on offshore/coastal engineering.
He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME Fellow), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Nuclear Society and has been a member of the American Society of Engineering Educators and the Biomedical Engineering Society. He also co-edited the book Micro and Nano Manipulations for Biomedical Applications, which ranked 31st in the Tower Books “Top 100” best sellers list in Medicine/Biotechnology in July 2010.
