
Fu-Kuo Chang
Aeronautics & Astronautics
Professor Chang's primary research interest is in the areas of multi-functional materials and intelligent structures with particular emphases on structural health monitoring, intelligent self-sensing diagnostics, and integrated health management for space and aircraft structures as well safety-critical assets and medical devices. His specialties include sensors and sensor network development, built-in self-diagnostics, integrated diagnostics and prognostics, damage tolerance and failure analysis for composite materials, and advanced multi-physics computational methods for multi-functional structures. Most of his work involves system integration and multi-disciplinary engineering in structural mechanics, electrical engineering, signal processing, and multi-scale fabrication of materials.
His recent research topics include: Integrated health management for aircraft structures, bio-inspired intelligent sensory materials for fly-by-feel autonomous vehicles, active sensing diagnostics for composite structures, self-diagnostics for high-temperature materials, etc.
Awards and Achievements
- 2010 - SPIE Smart Structures/NDE Life-Time Achievement Award
- 2009 - Best Paper Award at the 7th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, CA
- 2006 - Best Paper Award at the 3rd European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Spain.
- 2004 - SHM Life-Time Achievement Award sponsored by the Boeing Company
- 1999 - Best Paper of Polymer Composites in the American Society for Composite Materials
- 1989 - Best Paper by a SAMPE Member Award
- 1989 - Alcoa Foundation Award
- 1988 - Presidential Young Investigator Award of National Science Foundation
- 1986 - Charles Lee Powell Research Foundation Award
- Fellow of ASME
- Fellow of AIAA