Chair Prof. Su-seng Pang Takes Up the Appointment of Vice President at MUST

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Abiding by the educational philosophy of attaching equal importance to both teaching and research, for the purpose of continuance in advancing scientific research and improving academic performances, Macau University of Science and Technology appointed renowned scientist Chair Prof. Su-seng Pang to take up the post of Vice President of the University; the appointment commences from September and Chair Prof. Su-seng Pang will be especially in charge of the University’s academic and research affairs. It is the belief of MUST that with his unusual growing experience, outstanding academic achievements, profound love for his birth place, and broad international vision, Chair Prof. Su-seng Pang will be able to bring the University’s research achievements and academic standards up to new heights.

Born in Macau, Su-seng Pang is a top university graduate. After leaving high school, he entered the well-known Department of Mechanic Engineering of Taiwan University for college. Four years later, he graduated from Taiwan University as the No.1 top student, making him the first ever non-Taiwan student to win the first place in the department of mechanical engineering for half a century. In 1987, he earned his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from one of the most renowned prominent universities, University of California-Berkeley, again, with excellent grades.

Su-seng Pang is also an outstanding scientist. After he attained his doctoral degree, he joined Louisiana State University and worked at the department of mechanical engineering of the University respectively as an assistant professor, an associate professor, and a tenured professor. Su-Seng Pang has mainly engaged in research of composite materials and structures; he has published over 200 papers internationally, and has headed over a hundred national-level and state-level projects of scientific research and education; he has won over thirty honors and awards and enjoys high academic regards in the field of education and engineering in the US.. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (the publisher of Science), the American Society of Mechanical Engineer and Society of Plastics Engineers. In 2006, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Macau, and was appointed as a concurrent chair professor of the University of Macau.

Chair Prof. Su-Seng Pang is also an excellent educator. From 2001 to 2013, he served as the Associate Vice Chancellor of Louisiana State University for 12 consecutive years, and has reached deep understanding of the advanced educational systems, ideas, and philosophies of the US.. From October of 2013 to August of 2015, he was Acting Rector, Chair Professor, and Dean of the Faculty of Business of the City University of Macau; during this time, he began to explore and think about the cause of modernization of Macau’s higher education, and has made contributions to the transformational development of the City University of Macau.

Su-seng Pang grew up and received his elementary education in Macau; his effusively grateful mind has always been filled with strong and profound love for his home place. Thus, after living and working in the US. for over twenty years, while he was about to reach the peak of his career in the US., in 2013, he decisively left the US. and came back to Macau, the hometown where he was molded and shaped, to transmit knowledge and develop education. He is determined to spend the rest of his life in contributing all that he has learnt in his earlier life to his hometown.

From September of 2015, Chair Prof. Su-seng Pang will become a member of Macau University of Science and Technology. As the University that was built right after Macau returned to its motherland and that has achieved fast development and become the youngest among the Top 100 Universities across the two straits and four regions, Macau University of Science and Technology is full of vigor and characteristics. MUST has provided an opportunity for Chair Prof. Su-seng Pang to realize his ambitions, placing him at a more solid platform to exert his strengths. In turn, MUST also hopes that Chair Prof. Su-seng Pang will take advantage of his international research experiences, profound academic qualities, and rich experience in management of higher education, work together with the university management in advancing the University’s development to reach new heights, and make new contributions to the cause of developing MUST into a high-standard university with international influences.