Dr. Yang Chen

Dr. Chen earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University and her master's degree at Huazhong Agricultural University. After receiving her master’s, Dr. Chen worked as a faculty at a university in China for 3 years.

Dr. Chen has multiple disciplinary research backgrounds, which include robotics, agricultural mechanization, and non-destructive testing (NDT). Her research interests include robotics’ applications in agriculture and medical fields, and social robots that help the aging society in the USA and abroad and STEM education. She is developing projects that can involve students to have practical interdisciplinary skills with robotics to improve engineering students’ learning experiences, spark their interests in engineering, and attract a great population and diverse body of engineering students.