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Prof. Chin C. Lee (李金忠教授)

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Prof. Chin C. Lee (李金忠教授)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Prof. Chin C. Lee
  • Chinese: 李金忠教授
  • Era: 1948
  • Geography: Taitung, Taiwan
  • Core roles: engineer, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Professor of Electrical and Computer Dept., Director of Materials and Manufacturing Technology Research Institute

Education

  • National Chiao Tung Univ. — 1970 — B.S., Electronic engineering
  • National Chiao Tung Univ. — 1973 — M.S., Electronic engineering
  • Carnegie Mellon Univ. — 1979 — Ph.D., Electronic engineering

Employment

  • University of California, Irvine — Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Director of Materials and Manufacturing Technology Research Institute — (1980-) — Community — Taiwanese American Federation of South California (南加州台灣同鄉會聯合會) — President — Orange County Taiwanese Association (OCTA) (柑縣台灣同鄉會南加州) — President — Taiwanese Association of America / Pittsburgh Chapter (台灣同鄉會匹玆堡分會) — President — Taiwanese American Cultural Association (美國台灣文化協會) — President — Southern California Taitonese Association (南加州台東同鄉會) — President

Family

  • Wife: Li C. Hsieh
  • Daughter: Bernice, Amanda
  • Son: Mike

Career Notes

  • Born 1948 in Taitung, Taiwan. Joined the University of California, Irvine in 1980 as Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and served as Director of the Materials and Manufacturing Technology Research Institute there.
  • Trained in electronic engineering at National Chiao Tung Univ. (B.S. 1970, M.S. 1973) and Carnegie Mellon Univ. (Ph.D. 1979).
  • Long record of community leadership as president of Taiwanese American associations: president of the |Taiwanese American Cultural Association (美國台灣文化協會), the |Orange County Taiwanese Association (OCTA), the Pittsburgh Chapter, the Southern California Taitonese Association (南加州台東同鄉會), and the Taiwanese American Federation of South California (南加州台灣同鄉會聯合會) — spanning his Pittsburgh years at Carnegie Mellon and later Orange County years at UCI.
  • Married to Li C. Hsieh; two daughters (Bernice, Amanda) and one son (Mike).
  • TAH Foundation encyclopedia entries #57 and #1245 document his profile: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/57-prof-chin-c-lee||TAH #57: Prof. Chin C. Lee 李金忠教授]].

Timeline

  • 1948 — Born in Taitung, Taiwan
  • 1970 — B.S., Electronic Engineering, National Chiao Tung Univ.
  • 1973 — M.S., Electronic Engineering, National Chiao Tung Univ.
  • 1979 — Ph.D., Electronic Engineering, Carnegie Mellon Univ. (Pittsburgh years: president, Pittsburgh Chapter)
  • 1980– — University of California, Irvine: Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Director, Materials and Manufacturing Technology Research Institute
  • Community leadership (Pittsburgh & Orange County years) — President of the |Taiwanese American Cultural Association (美國台灣文化協會), the |Orange County Taiwanese Association (OCTA), Southern California Taitonese Association (南加州台東同鄉會), and Taiwanese American Federation of South California (南加州台灣同鄉會聯合會)
  • Documented in TAH Foundation encyclopedia entries #57 and #1245 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/57-prof-chin-c-lee||TAH #57]])

Connected in the Vault (deepen pass 2026-09-10)

  • 1980–1981 — President of the Pittsburgh Taiwanese association (TAA Pittsburgh Chapter): the first officers-meeting minutes for that year (附件9) name 李金忠 as 會長 and 馮世興 as 副會長 — 胡民祥’s documentary chapter history, [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys292|TAH Our Journeys #292 早年匹茲堡台灣同鄉會歷屆會長考證]] (English edition). This dates his TAA Pittsburgh presidency to his Carnegie Mellon → UCI transition years.
  • Irvine community: listed as the scuba-diving (水肺潛水) instructor in the adult-education roster at ITPC 長老教會.
  • Bibliographic: his profile is held twice in the vault — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/57-prof-chin-c-lee|TAH #57]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-1245-chin-c-lee|TAH Who’s Who #1245 (published 2016-08-14)]].

Deepen pass 2026-10-10

  • Pittsburgh roster, English edition: the English edition of 胡民祥’s chapter history, [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys292-eng|TAH Our Journeys #292 (English)]], carries the same officers roster — 1980–1981: Chin C. Lee / Shih-hsing Feng (李金忠／馮世興) — corroborating the Chinese-edition minutes already cited above.
  • HOLD: possible entity-extraction error elsewhere. The memoir [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories278-eng|Our Stories #278 (English)]] links this page as a subject because of a “Mr. Chin Lee, a provincial assembly man” who stood guarantee for the narrator’s departure in the late 1960s. A sitting Taiwan Provincial Assembly member is not consistent with a Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. student / UCI engineering professor in the same years, and the Chinese edition of the same memoir does not name 李金忠 at all. Likely a different Chin Lee — held for registry reconciliation, not absorbed.

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