You-Han Chen ***********@*****.***
Education
The Pennsylvania State University 2011.09 - 2013.08
Master of Science in Chemical Engineering
Thesis: Investigating the aggregation effect of thermal conductivity in
nanofluids systems.
National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan) 2006.09 - 2010.06
Bachelor in Chemical Engineering
Enrolled in a National Science Council undergraduate research program and
independently worked on a project of titanium based counter electrode DSSC.
Professional Experience
Research Assistant, Penn State U. 2011.09 – Present
Established the molecular dynamics method system in colloidal science lab.
Successfully performed a simulation of aggregation effect over fluid system.
Teaching Assistant, Penn State U. 2013.01 – 2013.05
Provided technical support to students with distillation, extraction, UF-gel,
HPLC, kinetics of reactors and process control experiments.
Research Assistant, National Taiwan U. 2010.02 – 2010.06
Developed an easy-assembly, low cost and high efficient dye-sensitized solar
cells by incorporating graphite in to electrodes.
Orally presented the results in EIS conference at Portugal, 2010.
Publications
You-Han Chen et al., "Titanium flexible photoanode consisting of an array of
T iO2 nanotubes filled with a nanocomposite of TiO2 and graphite for
dye-sensitized solar cells”, Electrochimica Acta, vol. 56, no. 23, pp. 7999-8004,
September 2011
Computer skills
Computer-aided process packages: ASPEN HYSYS, Simulink.
Programming skills in FORTRAN, C+, MATLAB, Mathematica.
Extracurricular Activities
V ice president, Taiwanese Student Association 2012.06 – 2013.05
Led all the meetings for 200 Taiwanese students at Penn State.
Coordinated with Taiwan government Office to hold annual events.
Organized freshmen reception, mid-moon festival BBQ, Chinese New
Year celebration during this year.