Chang-Lin Tien
| Chang-Lin Tien 田長霖 |
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| Seventh Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley |
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In office 1990–1997 |
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| Born |
July 24, 1935 Wuhan, Hubei Province, China |
| Died | October 29, 2002 (aged 67) Redwood City, California, USA |
| Spouse(s) | Di-Hwa Liu （劉棣華） |
| Alma mater |
National Taiwan University Princeton University |
| Profession | Mechanical engineer, professor |
Chang-lin Tien (traditional Chinese: 田長霖; simplified Chinese: 田长霖; pinyin: Tián Chánglín; July 24, 1935 – October 29, 2002) was a Chinese-American professor of mechanical engineering and university administrator. He was the seventh Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1990–1997), the first Asian to head a major university in the United States.
Born in Huangpi, Wuhan, China, Tien and his family fled to Taiwan in 1949 at the end of the Chinese Civil War. He earned a BS in mechanical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1955 and went on to a fellowship at the University of Louisville in 1956, where he received an MME in heat transfer in 1957. He then earned his MA and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from Princeton University in 1959.
Tien joined UC Berkeley faculty as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in 1959, and three years later, at the age of 26, became the youngest professor ever to be honored with UC Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award. He was promoted to full professor in 1968 and served as the Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 1974 to 1981. From 1983 to 1985, he served as vice chancellor of research. Tien spent his entire career at Berkeley, except for 1988–90 when he was executive vice-chancellor of UC Irvine. In 1999, Tien received the prestigious title of "University Professor".
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