Yong Chen
Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Phone: (213) 740-7829
Fax: (213) 740-1120
Email: yongchen@usc.edu
Web page: www-rcf.usc.edu/~yongchen

 

 

Dr. Chen received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, Zhejian, China) and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, Hubei, China) in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001. All the degrees are in Mechanical Engineering.

Dr. Chen worked for five years as a Senior Research and Development Engineer in 3D Systems, Inc. in Valencia, California (2001~2006). He also worked for a year and a half as a lecturer in the School of Mechanical Engineering and a research scientist in the Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Center at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (1996~1997).

• Computer-aided design tools for additive manufacturing
• Process development for Rapid Prototyping and Tooling
• Geometric reasoning in product design, analysis and manufacturing

• Yong Chen, Hongqing Wang, David Rosen, and Jarek Rossignac, “A Point-Based Offsetting Method of Polygonal Meshes.” ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (in review).
• Tom Kerekes, Jouni Partanen, Yong Chen, Charles Hull. “Improved Wall Smoothness, Feature Accuracy and Resolution in Projected Images via Exposure Levels in Solid Imaging”. 3D Systems, Inc. (USP Applied, July 2006, in pending).
• Shiva Sambu, Yong Chen, and David Rosen. “Geometric Tailoring: A Design For Manufacturing Method for Rapid Prototyping and Rapid Tooling.” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 126(4), pp. 571-580, July, 2004.
• David Rosen, Yong Chen, Shiva Sambu, Janet Allen, and Farrokh Mistree. “The Rapid Tooling Testbed: A Distributed Design-For-Manufacturing System”. Journal of Rapid Prototyping, Vol. 9(3), pp. 122-132, 2003.
• Yong Chen and David Rosen. “A Reverse Glue Approach to Automated Construction of Multi-Piece Molds With Application to Rapid Tooling.” ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, Vol. 3(3), pp. 219-230, September, 2003.
• Yong Chen and David Rosen. “A Region Based Method to Automated Design of Multi-Piece Molds with Application to Rapid Tooling”. ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, Vol. 2(2), pp. 86-97, June, 2002.