The University of Western Australia

Professor Kecheng Shen

Professor
School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering

Contact details

Address

School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering
The University of Western Australia (M050)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 4748

Fax

6488 1024

Email

kshen@mech.uwa.edu.au

Personal homepage

http://www.mech.uwa.edu.au/~kshen/

Qualifications

BEng Beijing Univ.Sc.&Tech., LEng Lund, PhD Lund & Linköping

Industrial relevance

Nuclear power industry and general risk assessment (consulting/reserach in safety and reliability)for 7 years. Passenger train design and manufacturing (product safety and reliability management/facilitation)for 10 years

Languages

Chinese (Mandarin, mother tongue), English (fluent), Swedish (fluent), German(basic)

Memberships

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Reliability Chapter and Charted member of the Product Safety Chapter

Previous positions

Feb 2008 – Associate professor/professor at the University of Western Australia
Jan 1998 - Jan 2008.Train project safety and RAM/LCC manager/lead engineer & specialist. Bombardier Transportation, Sweden
Jan 1991 - Dec 1997. Reliability, safety and risk management consultant & research scientist. Studsvik Nuclear, Sweden
Jan 1983 - Dec 1990. Lecturer/Assistant. Lund University, Institute of Technology, Dept of Machine Design, Sweden

Teaching

ASST4403 Reliability engineering (undergraduate)
ASST8423 Reliability engineering (professional)
ASST8421 System reliability modeling (professional)

Research profile

Research profile and publications