The\nDepartment of Electromechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology,\nUniversity of Macau (UM), recently graduated Macao\u2019s first home-grown doctor of\nelectromechanical engineering, Dr. Tam Hou Kuan. Dr. Tam passed his PhD oral defence\nwith excellence. According to external examiners from the University of Hong\nKong and Chiao Tung University of Taiwan, his performance can be easily rated\namong the top 5 per cent at their universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr.\nTam was born in Macao. He received his primary and secondary education at Kao\nYip Middle School and Instituto Salesiano respectively. After he graduated from\nhigh school, he was admitted to the Department of Electromechanical Engineering\nat UM. He received his bachelor degree in 2001, ranking No. 1 in his class. He\nobtained his master\u2019s degree in 2004 with an accumulative GPA of 3.88, after\nwhich he went on to pursue a PhD degree in thermal engineering at UM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr.\nTam\u2019s PhD thesis deals with the transition heat transfer and pressure drop\nmeasurements for plain and micro-fin tubes. Due to the flow nature,\nexperimental approach was the only feasible way. Dr. Tam started from scratch\nand spent more than one and a half years building a versatile experimental\nsetup to conduct the measurements. He then spent another three years collecting\nand analysing data. His research results not only were published in six\ninternational refereed SCI journals and at 14 international conferences, but\nalso earned him two awards, the Student Paper Competition Award at the International\nConference on Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering\nand Science 2006, and the Best Paper Award at the Asia Doctoral Innovation\nConference 2009. External members on the Examination Committee, Prof. Chiu-On\nNg from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong, and\nProf. Chiun-Hsun\nChen, dean of the College of Engineering, Chiao Tung University of Taiwan, were\nvery impressed with Dr. Tam\u2019s performance at his PhD oral defence, saying that Tam’s\nperformance can be easily rated among the top 5 per cent at their universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr.\nTam is Macao\u2019s first home-grown doctor of electromechanical engineering. His\nsupervisor was Prof. Tam Lap Mou.
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