User:Zhongchao Tan

Zhongchao Tan (谭中超)
is an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Calgary. He was born in 1972 in Pizhou, Jiang-su Province, China. During 1991-1999, Zhongchao studied in the Department of Thermal Engineering (Equivalent to Mechanical Engineering with a specialization of Thermo-fluids), Tsinghua University, Beijing. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Tsinghua University in 1996 and 1999, respectively. During his tenure at Tsinghua University, he was the President of the Thermal Engineering Student Association in 1993-1994, and was named the Top-10-Ourttanding-Student of the Department. During 1999 - 2004, he was studing in the United States as a doctoral graduate student. He received his award-winning Ph.D. degree (Bioenvironmental Engineering) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in May 2004. He has been a Professional Engineering since 2006.

Zhongchao Tan started his academic career in July 2004 as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering appointed through the Centre for Environmental Engineering Research & Education at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in April 2009. During this period of time, he has been presented with both teaching award and research award, being 2009 Schulich School of Engineering's Departmental Teaching Award, 2006-2007 University of Calgary Student Union's Teaching Excellence Award Honourable Mention, 2008 Schulich School of Engineering's Early Research Excellence Award.

Zhongchao Tan's Research
is focused on thermo-fluids principles and their applications to air pollution control, indoor air quality, aerosol particle measurement and filtration, and renewable energy engineering.

Zhongchao Tan's Website:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~tanz/