The Ministry of Education recently announced the list of winners of two important national awards. Professors Chen Wen-Hwa and Chen Bor-Sen won the National Chair Professorship and Academic Award respectively. Congratulations to both Professor Chen.

Professor Chen Wen-Hwa has a wide range of research specialties that expand like a radiation net alongside Taiwan's economic and scientific developments. Fracture mechanics, contact mechanics, noise control, nanomechanics and electronic packaging technology are all parts of his research endeavors. In the field of electronic packaging technology, for many years, he has worked with many manufacturers to conduct reliability and cooling simulations and experimentations of different packaging forms. He has successfully used infrared thermography to capture the temperature field on the entire surface of micro-packaging under different temperature. The research was featured as cover story by IEEE (IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, Vol.26, No.1, 2003).

Aside from teaching and research, Professor Chen Wen-Hwa remains actively involved in administrative services and has made many contribution to the improvement of the academic environment at NTHU. For nearly seven years, he served as the Chairman of the Department of Power Mechanics Engineering, Chairman of the Commission of Research and Development (now Office of Research and Development), Dean of the College of Engineering and Academic Vice President. He is currently the Vice President of the University System of Taiwan.

With outstanding performance in engineering and applied sciences, Professor Chen Bor-Sen of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science was selected to receive the Academic Award of the Ministry of Education this year. Seventy-nine applications were submitted, and only twelve were selected to receive this high honor.

For twenty-one years, Professor Chen has devoted to teaching and research at Tsing Hua. He has built a reputation as a worldclass researcher as well as a devoted teacher who trained many engineering and design talents. He has published over 180 papers in international journals with four cited by SCI over one hundred times. Five of his papers published in the past decade are highly cited (top 1%). In Taiwan, his papers are cited more times than any other scholars in the field of electrical engineering. Professor Chen remains a prominent figure on the international stage in his field, and was presented the Best Impact Award by IEEE in the Taipei Section.