On June 20th, Professor Chen Qingyan was awarded the John Rydberg Gold Medal from the Scandinavian Federation for Heating, Ventilating and Sanitary Engineering Associations (SCANVAC) at the 12th ROOMVENT Conference. The ROOMVENT Conference is a leading international event in the area of air distribution in rooms.
Professor Novakovic, President of the ROOMVENT Conference, and Professor Rasmussen, President of the SCANVAC, presented Professor Chen the Honorary Certificate, the John Rydberg Gold Medal along with the accompanying bonus. The medal is to award for outstanding contributions to the advancement of modeling and measurement of ventilation and air distribution in buildings. Among the four recipients of the award since the establishment of the Society, Professor Chen is the only one not from Scandinavia. After the presentation, Professor Chen made a keynote speech titled “Room Air Distribution: Solved and Unsolved Problems”.
SCANVAC is a joint organization in which the national societies of Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden participate. SCANVAC comprises now almost 20,000 individual members working with many aspects of HVAC technology, human comfort and environmental control.
Professor Chen Qingyan is Chair Professor of Chang Jiang Scholar Program of the Ministry of Education in China, the Editor-in-Chief of “Building and Environment,” the international journal of building science and its application, and a fellow of the ASHRAE and the International Society of Indoor Air Quality. Before he became the Editor-in-Chief of the Building and Environment journal, he served as an associate editor of the HVAC&R Research journal and was a member on the editorial boards of six other journals. Professor Chen's current research topics include indoor environment, aircraft cabin environment, and energy-efficient, healthy, and sustainable building design and analysis. He has published two books and over 230 journal and conference papers, and has been invited to deliver more than 110 lectures internationally. In recent years, Professor Chen has received Distinguished and Exceptional Service Awards from the ASHRAE. He is a recipient of the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation in the United States. Professor Chen has also received the Willis J. Whitfield Award "for significant contributions to the field of contamination control through numerous published papers, studies, and reports" from the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology. Currently, Professor Chen has been working as a Visiting Chair Professor under the “Chang Jiang Scholar” Program in TU. The TU cabin environment research team, led by Professor Chen, has established TU research platform with the MD82 passenger plane purchased by TU. |
