NCKU Professor Awarded with Outstanding Scholar Awards
Tainan, TAIWAN, Dec. 31, 2008--- The NCKU Professor Ker-Chung Shaing (向克強) of Institute of Plasma and Space Science Center and Department of Physics was presented with the 2008 Outstanding Scholar Award by the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship along with a 5-year grant of $1.2 million NT per year and $6 million NT in total, approximately 182 thousand US dollars. NCKU President Michael M.C. Lai conferred a medal to Professor Shaing and praised his achievement on plasma transport theory.
Professor Shaing obtained his PhD in Nuclear Engineering from University of Wisconsin at Madison. He started his academic career from 1982 as a research physicist in Fusion Energy Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Then, he also served as a research physicist in Institute for Fusion Studies at University of Texas from 1995 to 2001 and as a senior scientist in Engineering Physics Department of University of Wisconsin at Madison from 2001 to 2007. He was named as a Fellow of The American Physical Society.
Professor Shaing’s research interests mainly apply to fusion plasma physics and Nuclear Engineering, especially with outstanding achievement over plasma transport theory. He has authored more than 120 academic papers.
Professor Shaing in 1989 pointed out a whole new physical mechanism for plasma transport theory. He found when collisions of ions inside Tokamak machine were reduced, the polar flow on plasma boundary became more positively charged and, in contrast, the influence from corresponding radial electric field became more negatively charged. This certainly helps diminish plasma turbulence, and provides a solution to the polar momentum balance equation for Tokamak machine. It also helps improving the plasma confinement technology, and explains the L-H transition due to plasma confinement on the observations from the Tokamak machine. This research work has been published in Physical Review Letter, an internationally well-known physics review magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. (K. C. Shaing*, and E. C. Crume, Jr., Phys. Rev. Lett., 63, 2369, 1989. SCI: 472, IF: 6.944)
In 1997, another research work of Professor Shaing’s showed that due to the large polar movements in balanced magnetic field, the neoclassical theory can be used on building the polar plasma movement model. It would not need to calculate the complicated plasma turbulence to understand the plasma confinement mechanism. He advised an applicable analytic formula, and with his colleagues he developed the NCLASS value simulation program. This program has currently been widely used by many nuclear fusion research teams. His fruitful research outcome has also been published in an internationally well-known journal, Physics of Plasmas (W. A. Houlberg*, K. C. Shaing, S. P. Hirshman, and M. Zarnstorff, Physics of Plasmas, 4, 3230, 1997. SCI: 183, IF: 2.325).This article has also been documented by the Information Science Institute as one of highly cited papers in 10 years. Furthermore, this article along with another highly cited paper of Prof. Shaing’s, namely “K. C. Shaing, E. C. Crume, W. A. Houlberg, Phys. Fluids-B, 2, 1492, 1990. SCI: 197”, were recently included by the American Institute of Physics recently as two of selected highly cited Papers from 50 years of plasma physics.
Over the past years, NCKU faculty conferred Outstanding Scholar Awards include Professor Jin Wu (吳京), Professor Yan Hong-Sen (顏鴻森), Professor Lou-Chuan Lee (李羅權), Professor T.C. Chou (周澤川), Professor Michael M.C. Lai (賴明詔) and Prof. Ker-Chung Shaing (向克強).
About National Cheng Kung University.
With three quarters of a century of distinguished history, with well over 120,000 powerful alumni now dotting the globe, many have achieved supreme successes in arts, business, education, science, technology and healthcare and are ready and willing to assist, with 20,000 academic selective students and 1100 academic significant faculty members currently, both have healthy dosage of international flavor, with enormous regional support, and with a permeating culture of proactive intellectual growth on the world’s stage, NCKU in Tainan, Taiwan, has evolved from its engineering genesis to become a powerful comprehensive, research and international university in Asia Pacific.
For further information contact: NCKU Press Officer Wei-Chen Huang at 06-2757575 ext. 50042/mobil: 0952-213-421 or email: weichen@mail.ncku.edu.tw
Professor Shaing obtained his PhD in Nuclear Engineering from University of Wisconsin at Madison. He started his academic career from 1982 as a research physicist in Fusion Energy Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Then, he also served as a research physicist in Institute for Fusion Studies at University of Texas from 1995 to 2001 and as a senior scientist in Engineering Physics Department of University of Wisconsin at Madison from 2001 to 2007. He was named as a Fellow of The American Physical Society.
Professor Shaing’s research interests mainly apply to fusion plasma physics and Nuclear Engineering, especially with outstanding achievement over plasma transport theory. He has authored more than 120 academic papers.
Professor Shaing in 1989 pointed out a whole new physical mechanism for plasma transport theory. He found when collisions of ions inside Tokamak machine were reduced, the polar flow on plasma boundary became more positively charged and, in contrast, the influence from corresponding radial electric field became more negatively charged. This certainly helps diminish plasma turbulence, and provides a solution to the polar momentum balance equation for Tokamak machine. It also helps improving the plasma confinement technology, and explains the L-H transition due to plasma confinement on the observations from the Tokamak machine. This research work has been published in Physical Review Letter, an internationally well-known physics review magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. (K. C. Shaing*, and E. C. Crume, Jr., Phys. Rev. Lett., 63, 2369, 1989. SCI: 472, IF: 6.944)
In 1997, another research work of Professor Shaing’s showed that due to the large polar movements in balanced magnetic field, the neoclassical theory can be used on building the polar plasma movement model. It would not need to calculate the complicated plasma turbulence to understand the plasma confinement mechanism. He advised an applicable analytic formula, and with his colleagues he developed the NCLASS value simulation program. This program has currently been widely used by many nuclear fusion research teams. His fruitful research outcome has also been published in an internationally well-known journal, Physics of Plasmas (W. A. Houlberg*, K. C. Shaing, S. P. Hirshman, and M. Zarnstorff, Physics of Plasmas, 4, 3230, 1997. SCI: 183, IF: 2.325).This article has also been documented by the Information Science Institute as one of highly cited papers in 10 years. Furthermore, this article along with another highly cited paper of Prof. Shaing’s, namely “K. C. Shaing, E. C. Crume, W. A. Houlberg, Phys. Fluids-B, 2, 1492, 1990. SCI: 197”, were recently included by the American Institute of Physics recently as two of selected highly cited Papers from 50 years of plasma physics.
Over the past years, NCKU faculty conferred Outstanding Scholar Awards include Professor Jin Wu (吳京), Professor Yan Hong-Sen (顏鴻森), Professor Lou-Chuan Lee (李羅權), Professor T.C. Chou (周澤川), Professor Michael M.C. Lai (賴明詔) and Prof. Ker-Chung Shaing (向克強).
About National Cheng Kung University.
With three quarters of a century of distinguished history, with well over 120,000 powerful alumni now dotting the globe, many have achieved supreme successes in arts, business, education, science, technology and healthcare and are ready and willing to assist, with 20,000 academic selective students and 1100 academic significant faculty members currently, both have healthy dosage of international flavor, with enormous regional support, and with a permeating culture of proactive intellectual growth on the world’s stage, NCKU in Tainan, Taiwan, has evolved from its engineering genesis to become a powerful comprehensive, research and international university in Asia Pacific.
For further information contact: NCKU Press Officer Wei-Chen Huang at 06-2757575 ext. 50042/mobil: 0952-213-421 or email: weichen@mail.ncku.edu.tw
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