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Dr. Edward T. S. Huang (黃東昇博士)

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Dr. Edward T. S. Huang (黃東昇博士)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Dr. Edward T. S. Huang
  • Chinese: 黃東昇博士
  • Era: 1936
  • Geography: Tainan, Taiwan
  • Core roles: engineer, scientist
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Dr. Edward T. S. Huang 黃東昇博士 – History of Taiwanese American (T.A. Archives) 台美史料中心

A chemical engineer born in Tainan in 1936, Dr. Huang built a four-decade career in oil-field and supercritical-fluid research across the United States and Taiwan, and served the Taiwanese American community as President of the North American Taiwanese Professors’ Association (NATPA), Coordinator of the Taiwanese American Conference/West Coast, and President of the Taiwanese American Senior Society-East Bay.

Career & Timeline

  • 1958 — B.S. Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung Univ.
  • 1962 — M.S. Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Kansas
  • 1966 — Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Kansas; oil-mining research, Cities Service Oil Company, Tulsa, OK
  • 1969 — Oil-mining research, Gulf R&D Company, Pittsburgh, PA
  • 1979 — Prudhoe Bay Oil Field exploitation, Sohio Petroleum Company, San Francisco
  • 1985 — Oil-mining research, Unocal Company, Brea, CA
  • 1995–2000 — Supercritical fluid technology, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
  • 2000–2004 — Drug micronization research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Community Leadership

Education

  • National Cheng Kung Univ. — 1958 — B.S., Chemical Engineering
  • Univ. of Kansas — 1962 — M.S., Chemical Engineering
  • Univ. of Kansas — 1966 — Ph.D., Chemical Engineering

Employment

  • Cities Service Oil Company, Tulsa, OK — Oil mining research — (1966-) — Gulf R&D Company, Pittsburgh, PA — Oil mining research — (1969-) — Sohio Petroleum Company, San Francisco — Prudhoe Bay Oil Field Exploitation — (1979-) — Unocal Company, Brea, CA — Oil mining research — (1985-) — National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan — Supercritical fluid technology — (1995-2000) — University of Colorado, Boulder, CO — Drug micronization research — (2000-2004) — Community — North American Taiwanese Professors’ Association (NATPA) — President — Taiwanese American Conference/West Coast — Coordinator — Taiwanese American Senior Society-East Bay — President

Family

  • Wife: 韓淑真

Sources

Network

  • West Coast — Coordinator — TAH Who’s Who
  • |TASS-EB — President — TAH Who’s Who

Vault records (deepen pass 2026-09-10)

  • Two TAH encyclopedia records are cited in the vault: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ota-56||#56]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-1018-edward-t-s-huang||Who’s Who #1018]], harvested under |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org via |TAH Foundation.
  • The cited tables record his career arc NCKU ChemE BS 1958 → Univ. of Kansas MS 1962 / PhD 1966 → oil-field research (Cities Service, Gulf R&D, Sohio/Prudhoe Bay, Unocal) → supercritical fluid work back at NCKU 1995–2000 → drug micronization at Univ. of Colorado 2000–2004; family: wife 韓淑真.
  • Re-review 2026-09-11: page already carries the full absorb of both cited TAH records; NATPA / TAC-WC / TASS-EB leadership links verified against existing vault slugs; no further vault-only facts remain to absorb.
  • Additional in-vault records beyond the cited profiles (deepen slice 09112100-1, vault-only): he is recorded as the founding contact of the TAA Pittsburgh chapter in the TAA chapter history [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys76|Our Journeys #76 全美台灣同鄉會]] (EN: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys76-eng|#76 EN]]); as NATPA 2005 會長 in a 2016 美西夏令會 photo caption in his own article [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys287|Our Journeys #287 台南善友樂團之後代首次在夏令會聚會]]; 2016 美西夏令會總召集 role recalled by 李彥禎 [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys239|Our Journeys #239]]. He authored in the vault story corpus: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories609|My Stories #609 我與東灣台灣同鄉會網球隊的因緣]] (東灣同鄉會網球隊) and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications1215|#1215 荒漠樂音 – 善友樂團風華]] (his 台南善友樂團 background, with 林素純、陳天令). No new biography invented.

Vault records (deepen pass 2026-10-10)

  • 1969 — Co-founded the Pittsburgh Taiwanese Association chapter with 羅福全、柯耀宗、柯炯輝; founding recorded in [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys292|Our Journeys #292 早年匹茲堡台灣同鄉會簡介與歷屆會長考證]] (EN: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys292-eng|#292 EN]]), consistent with the TAA chapter-history record in [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys76|#76]] — no date conflict.
  • 1973 — As the Pittsburgh 負責人 he helped organize the first 美東台灣人夏令會 (Camp Taconic, NY) alongside 張富雄、鄭寶鼎、吳明基、李豐明, per 胡民祥’s TAA history [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys239|Our Journeys #239]]; he later authored the 共同回憶 of the 1974 fifth session: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/67-e5-85-b1-e5-90-8c-e5-9b-9e-e6-86-b61974-e5-b9-b4-e3-80-88-e7-ac-ac-e4-ba-94-e|#67 共同回憶1974年第五屆美東台灣人夏令會]].
  • Authored the history of the body he once coordinated: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys352|Our Journeys #352 History of TAC/West Coast]] (2020).
  • Softball record: co-authored [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/46-e5-a3-98-e7-90-83-e9-a2-a8-e9-9b-b2-e5-9b-9b-e5-8d-81-e5-b9-b4-e8-80-81-e5-a3|#46 壘球風雲四十年]] (2014, 黃東昇、賴慧娜); his Columbus 鄉訊 note and the 1988 MTSC 大會手冊 were cited to correct the first Midwest 台灣人壘球賽 from 1972 to 1973 in [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/our-journeys-376|Our Journeys #376 中西部台灣人夏令會簡史]].
  • Memoirs / autobiography: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories251|My Stories #251 我的網球三部曲]] (2015-05), [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories506|My Stories #506 回想古早時代幾件生活趣事]] (2017-01), [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications1046|#1046 台美人生命腳跡]] (2016, with 林靜竹、劉光道、陳天令、柯耀宗 et al.), [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications-1368|#1368 黃東昇八五回顧：府城黃葉兩家故事]] (2023-03 — age-85 retrospective, consistent with the 1936 birth year).
  • His archival collection: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/collection-of-dr-ed-huang|#22 Collection of Dr. ED Huang 黃東昇博士的收藏]].

Vault records (deepen pass 2026-10-12)

  • Fresh ZH+EN grep (黃東昇/Edward T. S. Huang/ED Huang) across all 5 corpus dirs: 21 files, hit set unchanged from prior passes and fully absorbed above; the only remaining hit is the roster backlink in |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org. Verified-saturated — no new material.

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