Dr. Qingyan Chen
My Journey in Built Environment Simulations
Event Date: | February 21, 2017 |
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Hosted By: | Dean of Engineering |
Time: | 1:30 p.m. |
Location: | Fu Room, Potter 234 |
Contact Name: | Marsha Freeland |
Contact Phone: | 765-494-5341 |
Contact Email: | mjfreeland@purdue.edu |
Open To: | ALL |
Priority: | No |
School or Program: | College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering |
College Calendar: | Show |
Abstract
Built environments are very important to our quality of life, and maintaining an acceptable built environment requires enormous resources. Dr. Chen will discuss the impact of built environment simulations on his personal dreams and on our daily lives. He has used computational fluid dynamics and energy simulation tools to create a better built environment with minimal energy consumption. He will demonstrate many applications of his simulations, such as advanced ventilation systems in buildings, airflow around buildings, infectious disease transmission in airliner cabins, and inverse design of built environments. He will also briefly discuss his service as the Editor-in-Chief for the Building and Environment journal.
Biography
Dr. Qingyan “Yan” Chen is the Vincent P. Reilly Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. He earned his B.Eng. in 1983 from Tsinghua University, China, and M. Eng. in 1985 and Ph.D. in 1988 from the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He conducted his post-doctoral research at ETH-Zurich, Switzerland, from 1989 to 1991 and worked as a Project Manager from 1991 to 1995 for TNO, the Netherlands. Dr. Chen was a faculty member at MIT from 1995 to 2002.
Dr. Chen’s current research interests include indoor environments; aircraft cabin environments; and energy-efficient, healthy, and sustainable building design and analysis. He has received total funding of $24M and has published three books, 217 journal papers, and 182 book chapters and conference papers.
Dr. Chen received the Distinguished Service Award in 2013 for “individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field of building performance simulation over the course of their careers” from the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA); the John Rydberg Gold Medal in 2011 for “outstanding contribution to the advancement of modelling and measurement of ventilation and air distribution in buildings" from the Scandinavian Federation of Heating, Ventilating and Sanitary Engineering Associations; and the Willis J. Whitfield Award in 2007 "for significant contributions to the field of contamination control through numerous published papers, studies, and reports" from the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology.
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