
Wen Chen
Professor and Program Director for Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technology
Contact
- 313-577-8165
- 313-577-1781 (fax)
- ed6874@wayne.edu
- 4855 4th st, Detroit, MI, USA
- Engineering Technology
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Wen Chen
Professor and Program Director for Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technology
Biography
Dr. Chen's teaching and research interests are in the areas of Control Systems, Alternative energy storage, and Fault diagnosis of industrial systems. He has 5 years' industrial experience in control system design and troubleshooting prior to becoming a faculty member in 2009.
Awards
- President's Award of Excellence in Teaching, 2025
- Teaching Awards of Engineering Technology 2017, 2019, 2020
Research Project
IRES Track II: A US-France ASI for Industrial Risk Management in Active Diagnosis, Accurate Characterization, and Reliable Mitigation, 3/1/2022-2/28/2024, NSF-IRES.
Education
- PhD. Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, 2004
- M.S., Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 1999.
- M.S., Automatic Control, Northeastern University, China, 1995.
- Dip. Electrical Engineering, Northeastern University, China, 1989. (Shenyang Gold Institute of Technology)
Research Interests
- Control systems
- Fault diagnosis
- IoT Technology
- Energy storage
Professional Affiliations
- Membership of Academy of Teachers, March 2025.
- Senior member, IEEE
Courses taught by Wen Chen
Winter Term 2025 (current)
- EET3720 - Micro and Programmable Controllers
- ET5110 - Advanced Programmable Controllers and Industrial Applications