Hongy Lin
林弘毅

Senior Research Scientist, Watlow, Heater Technology Center 1998-present

Work experience
1981-7 Materials Research Laboratories, ITRI
1991-3 Postdoctoral Fellow, Materials Research Center, UMR
1993-1998 MO-SCI Corp
Education
University of Missouri- Rolla, Ph. D. in Ceramic Engineering, 1991

Ching-Nen Nathan Chen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Research Interests:
1. Functional study of the plant hormones ABA (abscisic acid) and GA (gibberellines) regulated genes during seed germination.

2. Discovery and enhancement of industrial enzymes

Education:
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, B.S., 1990
National Taiwan University and Washington University in St. Louis, Ph.D., Plant Biology, 1999.

Representative Publications:
1. Ching-Nen Chen, Yu-Chung Chiang, Tuan-hua David Ho, Barbara A. Schaal and Tzen-Yuh Chiang. (2004). Coalescent processes and relaxation of selective constraints leading to contrasting genetic diversity at paralogs AtHVA22d and AtHVA22e in Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol. Phylogenet. Evo. 32:616-626.
2. Ching-Nen Chen, Larysa Porubleva, Georgia Shearer, Maja Svrakic, Lauren G. Holden, James L. Dover, Mark Johnston, Parag R. Chitnis, and Daniel H. Kohl. (2003). Associating protein activities to their genes: Rapid identification of a gene encoding a methylglyoxal reductase in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast 20:545-554.
3. Ching-Nen Chen, Chiung-Chih Chu, Rodolfo Zentella, Shu-Mei Pan and Tuan-hua David Ho. (2002). AtHVA22 gene family in Arabidopsis: phylogenetic relationship, ABA and stress regulation, and tissue-specific expression. Plant Mol Biol. 49:633-644.
4. Qingxi Shen, Ching-Nen Chen, Alex Brands, Shu-Mei Pan and Tuan-hua David Ho. (2001). The stress- and abscisic acid-induced barley gene HVA22: developmental regulation and homologues in diverse organisms. Plant Mol Biol. 45:327-340.

Contact:
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Missouri-Rolla
Rolla, MO 65409-1120

Yue-wern Huang, Ph.D.
黃郁文

Assistant Professor of Environmental Toxicology
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Missouri - Rolla

e-mail address: huangy@umr.edu

Profession (include current job/position): Assistant Professor of Toxicology

Work experience (Career history): junior high school teacher

Education experience: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D.

Other community organizations (or professional societies) involved

Life interest or any other interesting facts about you that you
would like to add (optional): photography, art appreciation, mountain climbing, camping, tennis, table tennis, badminton, swimming.

Dr. Fu-Hung Hsieh
謝富弘
Professor, Biological Engineering Department
University Of Missouri - Columbia

Research Interest: research: Extrusion of foods and feeds, processing of grain-based foods, new uses of agricultural materials and biomechanics

Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Food Science

List of expertise:
Extrusion of ready-to-eat cereals, snacks, pet foods, animal feeds, aquaculture feeds, and biodegradable packaging peanuts;
Puffing of cereal grain cakes;
Mechanical, thermal and rheological characterization of food and non-food materials

Frank Liou
劉富文

liou@umr.edu

Director, Manufacturing Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla
Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla

Education:
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota.

Work experience:
* Director, Interdisciplinary Manufacturing Engineering Program, 2000-present, UMR
* Professor, Mechanical Engineering, 1999-present, University of Missouri-Rolla
* Interim Program Director, Interdisciplinary Manufacturing Engineering Program, 1998-2000, University of Missouri-Rolla
* Senior Research Investigator, Intelligent Systems Center (ISC), 1997-present, University of Missouri-Rolla
* Boeing - A.D. Welliver Faculty Summer Fellow, Wichita and Seattle, Summer 1997

Other community organizations
* Program Chair, Manufacturing Division, American Society for Engineering Education Conference, 2005-2006.
* President, Midwest Chinese American Science and Technology Association (MCASTA), 2005-2006.
* External Examiner to the University Science Malaysia, 2003-2004.
* Associate Editor (2001-present), SME Journal of Manufacturing Systems
* Associate Editor (2000- present), Mechanism and Machine Theory, the journal of
* IFToMM - The International Federation for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms.

Life interest
photography, mountain climbing, sightseeing, tennis, movie