• Ph. D. University of Minnesota, 1988

• Biological sensing system
• Biological environment and production management
• Production engineering of plant tissue culture
• Biological products downstream engineering
• Greenhouse design and environment control
• Statistics and regression analysis

• Ungraduate program:
  1. Biological and environment engineering
  2. Sensing system
  3. System engineering
• Graduate program:
  1. Biological environment and production management
  2. Biological sensing system
  3. Biological system engineering
  4. Biological products downstream engineering
  5. Regression analysi

1. Development of a Transplanting System for Phalaenopsis Tissue Culture Plantlets
2. Development of growth models for orchids (NSC project 2001-2003)
3. Environment control and operation improvement of plant tissue culture factory (COA projects: 2001-2003)
4. Floriculture physiological monitoring and automation systems for protect culture (COA projects: 2001-2003)

1. Chen, C. and D.S. Jayas . 1998. Evaluation of the GAB equation for the isotherms of agricultural products. Transactions of the ASAE: 41(6): 1755-1760. (SCI)
2. Chen, C. and D.S. Jayas . 1998. Dynamic equilibrium moisture content for grain drying. Canadian Agricultural Engineering 40(4): 299-304. (SCI)
3. Chen, C. 2000. Factors which effect equilibrium relative humidity of agricultural products. Transactions of the ASAE 43(3): 673-683. (SCI).
4. Chen, C. 2000. A rapid method to determine the sorption isotherms of peanuts. Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research 75(2): 401-408 (SCI).
5. Chen, C. and P.C. Wu. 2000. The study of pause interrupted technique for rough rice. Drying Technology 18(10): 2381-2397 (SCI).
6. Chen, C. 2000. High moisture measurement of grains using a capacitance- type meter. Agricultural Engineering Journal 9(2): 63-72. (EI)
7. Chen, C. and D.S. Jayas . 2000. Effect of equilibrium relative humidity and temperature on seed longevity. Agricultural Engineering Journal 9(3&4):129-138. (EI)
8. Chen, C. 2001. Moisture measurement of grains using humidity sensors. Transactions of the ASAE 44(3):1241-1245 (SCI)
9. Chen, C. and P. Wu. 2001. Thin-layer drying model for rough rice with high moisture content. Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research 80(1): 45-52. (SCI)
10. Chen, C. and J.J. Chen. 2002. Measurement of gas exchange rates for plant tissue culture vessels. Plant, Cell, Tissue & Organ Culture 71(2): 103-109. (SCI)
11. Chen, C. 2002. Sorption isotherms of sweet potato slices. Biosystems Engineering 83(1): 85-95. (SCI)
12. Chen, C. 2003. Moisture sorption isotherms of pea seeds. Journal of Food Engineering ： Accepted (SCI)
13. Chen, C. 2003. Development of a heat transfer model for plant tissue culture vessels. Biosystems Engineering ： Accepted (SCI)
14. Chen, C. 2003. Thermal and moisture gradient model for greenhouse. Agricultural Engineering Journal. Accepted. (EI)

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