CHAN, Archie Yan-Cheong
PhD (Imperial College London^#), FIEEE, MBA, DIC, MSc(Eng), ACGI, CEng, FIEE, FHKIE

Professor (Chair) of Electronic Engineering, Director of EPA Centre 

Room: G6503 Tel: (852) 2788-7130 Fax: (852) 2788-7579 Email: eeycchan@cityu.edu.hk 

Professor Y.C. Chan earned a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1977, an M.Sc. degree in Materials Science in 1978, and a Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1983, all from Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. In addition to his engineering education, he was awarded a MBA degree from the University of Hong Kong Business School in 1989, majoring in Finance. In 1983, he joined the Advanced Technology Department of Fairchild Semiconductor in California as a Senior Engineer, and worked on Integrated Circuits Technology. In 1985, he was appointed to a Lectureship in Electronics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Between 1987 and 1991, he worked in various senior operations and engineering management functions in electronics manufacturing (including SAE Magnetics (HK) Ltd. and Seagate Technology). He set up the Failure Analysis and Reliability Engineering Laboratory for SMT PCB in Seagate Technology (Singapore). He joined City Polytechnic of Hong Kong (now City University of Hong Kong - CityU) as a Senior Lecturer in Electronic Engineering in 1991. He is currently Chair Professor of Electronic Engineering and Director of the EPA Centre, and Assistant Head for Applied Research and Industry Relations in the Department of Electronic Engineering. Since his appointment at CityU, he has authored or co-authored over 180 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals, over 80 international conference papers, and 4 books.  His current research interests include RoHS & WEEE research, green electronics manufacturing, failure analysis, and reliability engineering. He is world renown in electronic product reliability, lead free soldering, and green electronics manufacturing.

Professor Chan is currently Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (USA), the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK). He served as in the Executive Committee of the IEE Hong Kong for eight years and as Chairman in 1995-96. He was Founding President (2001) and is presently Honorary Chairman of the Hong Kong Electronic Packaging and Manufacturing Services Association. He is currently engaged in a RoHS & WEEE research program at CityU in conjunction with a number of local manufacturers and international research and technical organizations, and am serving as a member of the China RoHS working group to implement the relevant laws and technical testing in China. He has widely consulted for various companies for RoHS testing and compliance, and worked closely with some European partners on the forthcoming REACH directives. Worldwide, he has given keynote speeches on RoHS compliance and homogeneous materials, and is in the process of chief-editing a series of RoHS books and co-authoring some specialist chapters for manufacturing industry in China.

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 Last updated: 13 October 2008