Faculty Profile for Dr. Heping Chen

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Dr. Heping Chen
Associate Professor — Ingram School of Engineering
IGRM 2203
phone: (512) 245-1826
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Chen, H., & Yaseer, A. (2022). Top Surface Roughness Modeling for Robotic Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing. Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing.
  • Chen, H., & Okeke, H. (2022). Development of an Economical 3D Sensor for Weld Seam Tracking in Robotic Welding.
  • Chen, H. (2021). Machine learning based layer roughness modeling in robotic additive manufacturing. Journal of Manufacturing Processes. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmapro.2021.08.056
  • Chen, H., & Cao, C. (2021). Keyway Alignment Using GRNN in Robotic Pipe Handling. Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems.
  • Chen, H. (2021). Predicting Layer Roughness with Weaving Path in Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing Using ANN.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Best paper award finalist, The IEEE International Conference on Cyber Technologies on Automation, Control and Robotics. 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Best Paper Award, IEEE Int. Conf. on CYBER Technol. in Autom., Control and Intell. Syst. for “Robotic Welding Parameter Optimization Based on Weld Quality Evaluation”. 2016
  • Award / Honor Recipient: A person at Texas State University who made contributions to their academic career. 2015
  • Award / Honor Recipient: A person at Texas State University who made contributions to their academic career. 2015
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor. 2015

Selected Grants

  • Ameri, Farhad, Khaleghian, Seyedmeysam (Co-Principal), Tate, Jitendra S (Supporting), Trueba, Luis (Supporting), You, Byoung Hee (Supporting), Song, In-Hyouk (Supporting), Jimenez, Jesus (Supporting), Chen, Heping (Supporting), Emami, Anahita (Supporting). REU Site: Multidisciplinary Research Experience in Advance Manufacturing for Undergraduates, National Science Foundation (NSF), Federal, $396737. (Funded: May 1, 2021 - August 1, 2024). Grant.
  • Chen, Heping (Principal). Automatic Transmission and Torque Converters, $30000. (Funded: 2014). Grant.
  • Chen, Heping (Principal). Supplement to exploring robotic applications in Oil&Gas, ABB Inc., $15000. (Funded: 2013). Grant.
  • Chen, Heping (Principal). Supplement to exploring robotic applications in Oil&Gas, ABB Inc., $15000. (Funded: 2012). Grant.
  • Chen, Heping (Principal). Exploring robotic applications in Oil&Gas, ABB Inc., $59000. (Funded: 2011). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Member
Faculty Search Committee
2022-Present
Associate Editor
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
2021-Present
Member
Department Research Committee
2020-Present
Member
IT representative of MFGE
September 2019-Present
Member
Presidential Award Nomination Committee
January 2019-Present