Yuting Wu Chen

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2011
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2009
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007

Resident Instruction

• ENG 580 - Teaching and Leadership
• ENG 177 - Leadership Scholars
• ECE 220 - Computer Systems & Programming

Selected Articles in Journals

• Y. W. Chen and X.-C. Zhang, “Anti-reflection implementations for terahertz waves,” Frontiers of Optoelectronics, vol. 7, no. 2, pp.243-262, Jun. 2014.
• Y. W. Chen, P. Y. Han, M-L Kuo, S-L Lin, and X.-C. Zhang, “Terahertz broadband antireflection photonic device with graded refractive indices,” Acta Physica Sinica, vol. 61, no. 8, pp. 0884011 – 0884016, Apr. 2012.
• Y. W. Chen, P. Y. Han, X.-C. Zhang, M-L Kuo, and S-L Lin, “Three-dimensional inverted photonic grating with engineerable refractive indices for broadband antireflection of terahertz waves,” Opt. Lett., vol. 35, no. 19, pp. 3159 – 3161, Oct. 2010.
• P. Y. Han, Y. W. Chen, and X.-C. Zhang, “Application of silicon micropyramid structures for antireflection of terahertz waves,” IEEE J. of Sel. Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 338 – 343, Jan. 2010.
• Y. W. Chen, P. Y. Han, and X.-C. Zhang, “Tunable broadband antireflection structures for silicon at terahertz frequency,” Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 94, no.4, pp. 0411061 – 0411063, Jan. 2009. * Featured in Research Highlights, Nature Photonics, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 186 – 187, Apr. 2009.

Articles in Conference Proceedings

• R. J. Rajarathinam, J. Katz, S. Shehab, Y. W. Chen, B. E. Johnson, M. Pool, “The Impact of a Graduate Teaching and Leadership Course on Engineering Graduate Teaching Assistants’ Learning of Pedagogy,” in Proc. of the 2024 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 23 – 26, 2024, Portland, Oregon.
• J. Katz, R. J. Rajarathinam, Y. V. Shao, Y. W. Chen, “Influence of a Week-Long Electrical and Computer Engineering Summer Camp on Middle School Students’ Interests in STEM,” in Proc. of the 2024 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 23 – 26, 2024, Portland, Oregon.
• O. Mironeko, Y. W. Chen, “Student Learning Outcomes in Two Fundamental ECE Courses with Multi-Modal Delivery During COVID Response”, in Proc. of the 2023 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 25 – 28, 2023, Baltimore, Maryland.
• S. Shehab, J. Katz, E. Kirby, Y. W. Chen, B. E. Johnson, M. Pool, “The Impact of a 16-week Preparation Course on the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Graduate Teaching Assistants in Engineering”, in Proc. of the 2023 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 25 – 28, 2023, Baltimore, Maryland.
• Y. W. Chen, B. E. Johnson, M. Pool, S. Shehab, “Engagement in Practice: Maximizing the Impact of Service-learning Activities Through Collaboration with K–12 Educators”, in Proc. of the 2023 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 25 – 28, 2023, Baltimore, Maryland.
• I. Alviar, U. K. Bhowmik, Y. W. Chen, “Curriculum Improvement of Introduction to Programming Course in ECE: Customizing Learning Paths for Parallel Computing Topics”, in Proc. of the 2023 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 25 – 28, 2023, Baltimore, Maryland.
• D. H. Smith, U. K. Bhowmik, Y. W. Chen, “Understanding the impacts of extra credit modules on students’ learning experience in a 100-level Electrical and Computer Engineering Course”, in Proc. of the 2023 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 25 – 28, 2023, Baltimore, Maryland.
• C. Radhakrishnan, Y. W. Chen, "Teaching Electronic Circuits with a Balance of Rigor, Intuition, Approximation, and Inspection Analysis", in Proc. of the 2022 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 26 – 29, 2022, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• Y. W. Chen, B. E. Johnson, M. Pool, S. Shehab, B. K. Johnson, "Engagement in Practice: Toward Building University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Multi-disciplinary Service-Learning Ecosystem", in Proc. of the 2022 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 26 – 29, 2022, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• Z. Zhu, U. K. Bhowmik, Y. Wang, Z. Cheng, Y. W. Chen, "Having it All: Infusing Parallel Computational Thinking in the Lower-level Computer Engineering Curriculum Using Extended Learning Modules", in Proc. of the 2021 American Society for Engineering Education Virtual Annual Conference, Jul. 26 – 29, 2021.
• H. H. Choi, S. Havan, C. Hathaway, B. E. Johnson, M. A. Beckman, Y. W. Chen, L. Anderson, "Inform Track: Integrated Teaching and Leadership Development Program for Graduate Teaching Assistants", in Proc. of the 2021 American Society for Engineering Education Virtual Annual Conference, Jul. 26 – 29, 2021.
• Z. Li and Y. W. Chen, “Not standing at the same starting line – investigation of prior programming experience on student performance in an introductory programming course in ECE,” in Proc. of the 2020 American Society for Engineering Education Virtual Annual Conference, Jun. 21 – 24, 2020.
• Y. W. Chen, J. S. Asgarpoor, R. Sandekian, J. K. Nelson, L. K. Rynearson, S. Bartelt-Hunt, and J. Callahan, “Managing dual academic careers,” in Proc. of the 2020 American Society for Engineering Education Virtual Annual Conference, Jun. 21 – 24, 2020.
• W. Monroe, M. Witt, M. Pantoja, C. Lupo, A. C. Elster, J.C. Adams, M. C. Wissink, H. Liu, C. Liao, R.B. Yehezkael, B. H. Glick, R. Tripathi, B. Smith, M. J. Mache, T. Estrada, D. Deb, U. Bhowmik, Y. W. Chen, D. S. Choi, Z. Cheng, G. K. Andino, P. E. Pascuzzi, and M. D. Ward, “Lightning talks of EduHPC 2019,” presented at the 2019 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing (EduHPC), Nov. 17, 2019, Denver, Colorado.
• Y. W. Chen, “Work in progress: a balancing act – evolution of assessments in an introductory programming course in ECE after curriculum redesign,” in Proc. of the 2019 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 18 – 21, 2019, Tampa, Florida.
• Y. W. Chen, H. H. Choi, M. Beckman, B. E. Johnson, and L. Anderson, “Integrative engineering leadership initiative for teaching excellence (iELITE) year two: assessment of intermediate-term outcome for graduate teaching assistant training,” in Proc. of the 2019 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 18 – 21, 2019, Tampa, Florida.
• H. H. Choi, Y. W. Chen, M. Beckman, L. Anderson, B. E. Johnson, M. D. Goodman, C. Migotsky, and N. Johnson-Glauch, “Integrative engineering leadership initiative for teaching excellence (iELITE),” in Proc. of the 2018 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 26 – 29, 2018, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Patents

• X.-C. Zhang, P. Y. Han, Y. W. Chen (2012). U.S. Patent No. 8,299,435. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Tunable Broadband Anti-reflection Apparatus.
• X.-C. Zhang, P. Y. Han, Y. W. Chen (2012). U.S. Patent No. 8,338,802. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Terahertz Radiation Anti-reflection Devices and Methods for Handling Terahertz Radiation.

Honors

• National Science Foundation IGERT Fellowship (2007 - 2010)
• Rensselaer Founders Award of Excellence (2009)
• Illinois ECE Oakley Scholarship (2004 )

Teaching Honors

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2023)
• Illinois ECE Ronald W. Pratt Outstanding Teaching Award for Faculty (2020)