Professor Chang Hsin-kang, GBS, JP,

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(; born 9 July 1940, Shenyang, Liaoning, China), was the president of

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. He received his

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in civil engineering from

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in 1962, his master's degree in

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from Stanford University in 1964, and his PhD in

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from

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in 1969.

Biography

Chang was Professor/Chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the

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(USC) from 1985 to 1990. He was a founding

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of the School of Engineering at the

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in 1990, and the Dean of the School of Engineering of the

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in 1994. He was appointed to be the President of the

in 1996; he retired in 2007. He was appointed a

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of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2000. He is an internationally known biomedical engineering expert, having published more than 100

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, as well as being the editor of two research monographs. He holds a Canadian patent. On 27 June 2015 at the

United International College Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC; ), a public college located at Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. It was co-founded by Beijing Normal University and Hong Kong Baptist Unive ...

's 7th Graduation Ceremony in

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, Chang Hsin-kang was rewarded with the Honorary Fellowships.

References

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