Rate My Professor Chean Chin Ngo

Ngo's publications include early contributions such as "Teaching Thermodynamics With The Aid Of Web Based Module" (ASEE Annual Conference, 2001, with Feng C. Lai), "Web Based Thermodynamics Wizard" (ASEE Annual Conference, 2002, with Feng C. Lai), and "A Web Based Measurement Lab For Thermal Science" (ASEE). Recent works focus on engineering curricula: "Current Trends of Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Curricula in California" (ASME IMECE, 2019) and "Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Education in the United States" (ASEE Virtual Annual Conference, 2020, with Sang June Oh). In 2024, he became co-director of the SpaceIgnite Center for Advanced Research-Education in Combustion (SPARC Center), awarded a nearly $5 million five-year NASA Minority University Research and Education Project (MIRO) grant. Partnering with Clemson University, University of Washington, and NASA Glenn Research Center, the center develops aerospace courses (e.g., space technology, propulsion, combustion), offers research in high-pressure combustion, supercritical fluid mixing, and water reclamation for space missions, and provides internships and pathways for underrepresented STEM students from community colleges to doctoral programs. Ngo contributes to university governance via the Fullerton Forward Strategic Plan Development Committee, Academic Senate, program performance reviews, ABET accreditation, and high-impact practices.