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Prof. Kun-Mu Chen (陳坤木博士)

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Prof. Kun-Mu Chen (陳坤木博士)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Prof. Kun-Mu Chen
  • Chinese: 陳坤木博士
  • Era: 1933
  • Geography: Banqiao, Taiwan
  • Core roles: engineer, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
  1. Michigan State Univ. 1968-1972 Director of Electrical Engineering Research Department

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. — 1955 — BS, Electronic Engineering
  • Harvard Univ. — 1958 — MS, Applied Physics and Electronic Engineering
  • Harvard Univ. — 1960 — Ph.D., Applied Physics and Electronic Engineering

Employment

  • Michigan State Univ. — Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering — (1964-) — Michigan State Univ. — Professor of Electrical Engineering — (1967-) — Michigan State Univ. — Director of Electrical Engineering Research Department — (1968-1972) — Community — Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego — President — Taiwanese Association of Greater Lansing Michigan — President

Role in the Community

  • Founding president, TAA East Lansing chapter. Recorded among the 28 founding chapter presidents of the Taiwanese Association of America (全美會) in the movement memoir Our Journeys: “East Lansing (Kun-Mu Chen)”; the body was formally registered in Washington D.C. as The Formosan Club of America, Inc. on 1971-08-13. Source: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys76-eng|Our Journeys #76 (EN)]] / [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys76|#76 (中)]]. Consistent with the TAH entry “Taiwanese Association of Greater Lansing Michigan — President”.
  • President, Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego (TAFSD). As TAFSD president he delivered the welcoming speech and cut the ribbon (with TACC director Ted Fan and city-council chief of staff Steven Hadley) at the grand opening of the Taiwanese American Community Center of San Diego permanent site — over 300 attendees, Naruwan Taiko drumming, concert by pianist Julie Wong and soprano Irene Lee. Event dated 2009-09-19 (星期六): the Chinese account records 二〇〇九年九月十九日, and Steven Hadley declared that day 「台美基金會日」 on behalf of the mayor; the plaque for the building remodel went to 吳銘賢 (Dr. Ming Wu) and 呂錦文 (Dr. Winston Lue). Source: 聖地牙哥台灣中心開幕典禮與慶祝音樂會 (EN) / [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys162|#162 (中)]].
  • Father of the Taiwanese American softball game. Organized the first T.A. softball team at the University of Michigan in 1960, per the community record — 1960 and 陳坤木教授 — The father of T.A. Softball game. Campus question RECONCILED (deepen-x 10110400-1): the movement memoir states plainly that in 1964 陳教授轉任於密西根州立大學（Michigan State University, East Lansing） — so the 1960 team at University of Michigan (Ann Arbor tenure 1960–1964) and the employment table’s Michigan State entry from 1964 describe successive posts, not a conflict — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys185|Our Journeys #185（全美會運動史・台美壘球）]].
  • Movement memoir portrait (全美會 movement history). Our Journeys #185 recalls him as the 60年代留美世代之中的杏壇聞人：1955 畢業台大電機、1957 以魯氏獎學金入哈佛、1960 取得博士後任教密西根大學（University of Michigan, Ann Arbor）學術研究 40 餘年、指導出 46 位博士；每逢週末照顧台灣留學生、購買壘球用具與學生同打球、賽後共享晚餐「共敘鄉愁」，被推為「北美洲台灣壘球之父」，台灣壘球由此在校園茁壯為台美人唯一的全國性球類活動 — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys185|Our Journeys #185（全美會運動史・台美壘球）]]. Memoir’s own chronology resolves the campus question: Ann Arbor 1960–1964, then 1964 轉任 Michigan State (East Lansing), where he hosted 300–400 Taiwan students and formed the Spartans team that competed with the Ann Arbor club — the earliest two powerhouses of North American Taiwanese softball, whose alumni spread the game to Taiwanese associations nationwide — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys185|Our Journeys #185]].
  • Biography in the corpus: 陳洵洵 (relationship of author 陳洵洵 to the family not established).
  • Named in the first national Taiwanese directory. 陳希寬’s memoir of compiling the first 《全美台灣同鄉通訊錄》 (1966–67, organized from Manhattan, Kansas via the Kansas Formosan Group and UFAI) lists him among the Michigan contributors who supplied names and addresses — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys58|Our Journeys #58（回憶編印第一本全美台灣同鄉通訊錄）]]. Places him in the movement’s first nationwide contact network by 1966-67.
  • Harvard “first” and doctoral productivity (TAH record works). Work #16 records him as 哈佛大學電機博士第一人 (first Harvard Ph.D. holder in Electric Engineering, 1960) — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/16-kun-mu-chen-e9-99-b3-e5-9d-a4-e6-9c-a8-e6-95-99-e6-8e-88-first-ph-d-holder-of|TAH work #16]]; consistent with the employment/education table (Harvard Ph.D. 1960). Work #14 credits him with producing the most Ph.D. graduates (57) at Michigan State University — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/14-kun-mu-chen-e9-99-b3-e5-9d-a4-e6-9c-a8-e6-95-99-e6-8e-88-produce-most-ph-d-de|TAH work #14]]. HOLD: 57 Ph.D. (work #14, Michigan State) vs 46 指導出博士 (Our Journeys #185 memoir) — counts not reconciled; also #17 dates “Organizer of the First Softball Team” to 1981 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/17-prof-kun-mu-chen-e9-99-b3-e5-9d-a4-e6-9c-a8-e6-95-99-e6-8e-88-organizer-of-th|TAH work #17]]) vs 1960 in works 274 — retain both, no auto-merge.
  • （deepen-x slice 10081018-26 覆核 2026-10-09：重抓 works+articles+sources+events+topics，命中 17 檔；新增 ourjourneys58 名單、work 17 已吸收並 wikilink；work senior-17 為同人的 record stubs 無新內文。兩處 HOLD 如上。）
  • （deepen-x slice 10110400-1 覆核 2026-10-12：ZH+EN grep 命中 12 檔。Our Journeys #185 明文「1964年陳教授轉任於密西根州立大學」——據此調解 Campus HOLD（UM 1960–1964 → MSU 1964-，非衝突），並補入 MSU Spartans 壘球隊起源。其餘命中檔為既有 stubs/重複內文，無新事實。Ph.D. 人數 57 vs 46 與 1981 vs 1960 兩 HOLD 保留。）

Family

  • Daughter: Maggie, Kathy
  • Son: Kenny, George

From the record

  • 2014-10-04 — Who’s Who entry #61, “61. Dr. Kun-Mu Chen 陳坤木博士,” published in the TAH story corpus (bibliographic record; full text stays in the vault) — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-61-kun-mu-chen|TAH work #61]].
  • 2018-09-12 — Profile #89, “89. Prof. Kun-Mu Chen 陳坤木教授,” published in the TAH story corpus (bibliographic record) — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/89-prof-kun-mu-chen|TAH work #89]].
  • 2019-08-30 — Senior Taiwanese American entry #17, “17. Prof. Kun-Mu Chen (陳坤木教授),” published in the TAH story corpus (bibliographic record) — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/senior-taiwanese-american-17|TAH senior entry #17]]. Note: same title as the earlier-recorded work #17 stub (Organizer of the First Softball Team) — treat as the same numbered entry republished under the senior-series URL; the 1981-vs-1960 softball-date HOLD above stands.
  • (deepen-x slice 10130000-2 覆核 2026-10-13: 三檔 record stubs 無內文，僅補入帶日期之 wikilink；quote gap 未補 — 候選引文經核對為書目 metadata 非本人文句，依指示不貼。)

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