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Yen-Sen Chen (陳彥升)

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Yen-Sen Chen (陳彥升)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Yen-Sen Chen
  • Chinese: 陳彥升
  • Era: -
  • Geography: 台灣
  • Core roles: engineer, entrepreneur, scientist, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Employment 1.NSPO 2005-present Senior Research fellow and Suborbital science experiment program manager

Education

  • 淡江大學 — B.S. Aeronautical Engineering
  • University of Kansas — M.S.Aerospace Engineering
  • University of Kansas — Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering

Employment

  • NSPO — 2005-present — Senior Research fellow and Suborbital science experiment program manager
  • NSPO — 2006-2010 — Systems Engineering division director
  • Depart of Mechanical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University — 2015-present — Adjunct professor
  • ESI — 1991-2005 — President and chief technical officer
  • Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Alabama — 1990-1995 — Adjunct Professor
  • SECA, Inc. Huntsville, Alabama — 1998-1991 — Senior staff scientist

Family

Timeline

  • B.S. Aeronautical Engineering, 淡江大學; M.S. and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, University of Kansas
  • 1990–1995 — Adjunct Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Alabama
  • 1991–2005 — President and chief technical officer, ESI
  • 1991–1998 — Senior staff scientist, SECA, Inc., Huntsville, Alabama (listed 1998-1991 on the TAH profile; range shown reversed)
  • 2005–present — Senior Research fellow and Suborbital science experiment program manager, NSPO (國家太空中心)
  • 2006–2010 — Systems Engineering division director, NSPO
  • 2015–present — Adjunct professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University
  • 2017 — Profiled in TAH story #512 as 火箭王子 (“Rocket Prince”), 棄高薪回台發展

Married to |柯翠園.

Sources

Vault records (deepen pass 2026-09-10)

  • Encyclopedia record in vault: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories512||TAH #512 火箭王子 陳彥升 棄高薪回台發展]] (林修卉, 02/2017) — the profiled “Rocket Prince” story behind the 2017 timeline entry.
  • Who’s Who record in vault: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho1410||TAH #1410 Yen-Sen Chen 陳彥升]] (11/2016).
  • Same-domain diaspora association in the vault corpus: |Taiwanese American Aeronautics and Space Association (aerospace field context only — no documented membership on this page).
  • Family: wife |柯翠園.
  • Geography-context pages in the vault corpus: |TAKC Greater Kansas City (University of Kansas years) and |Taiwanese Association of Alabama Birmingham (Alabama 1990–1998) — context only, no documented membership.
  • Deepen 2026-09-14 (vault-only): re-checked all cited vault records (#512, #1410) and the spouse page |柯翠園 — every wikilink target verified present on disk; no new absorbable facts beyond the tables above.
  • SKIP-with-reason (slice 09141300-22): corpus grep across works/ and articles/ returned only [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories512|TAH #512]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho1410|TAH #1410]], both already absorbed above — nothing new absorbable.
  • Slice 09142319-16 語料複核 (2026-09-15): grep 僅命中 [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories512|TAH #512]] 與 [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho1410|TAH #1410]], 均已吸收於上; 語料無新事實——SKIP。
  • Slice 09150316-13 語料複核 (2026-09-15): grep 陳彥升/Yen-Sen Chen（works+articles）命中僅 #512、#1410（皆已吸收）與 index adjacency；memoir 語料無新事實——SKIP。
  • Slice 09150400-11 語料複核 (2026-09-15): grep 陳彥升/Yen-Sen Chen（works+articles）命中僅 #512、#1410 書目記錄（皆已吸收）；memoir 語料無新事實——SKIP。
  • Slice 09150500-4 語料複核 (2026-09-15): 命中集無變（僅 #512、#1410）；memoir 語料無新事實——SKIP。

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