十年調查白皮書–火箭論壇

Vigor Yang is Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was the William R. T. Oakes Professor and Chair of Georgia Tech’s School of Aerospace Engineering for a decade (2009-2018). He has published 10 comprehensive volumes and numerous technical papers on combustion, propulsion, energetics, and data science. He was the recipient of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Air-Breathing Propulsion Award (2005), the Pendray Aerospace Literature Award (2008), the Propellants and Combustion Award (2009), and the von Kármán Lectureship in Astronautics Award (2016). He was awarded the Worcester Reed Warner Medal (2014) by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the Lifetime Achievement Award (2014) by the Joint U.S. Army, Navy, NASA, and Air Force (JANNAF) Interagency Propulsion Committee. He also received the Statistics in Physical Engineering Sciences Award (2019) from the American Statistical Association (JSA).

Dr. Yang was the editor-in-chief of the AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power (2001-2009) and the JANNAF Journal of Propulsion and Energetics (2009-2012). He is currently a co-general editor of the Aerospace Book Series of the Cambridge University Press (2010-). A member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, an Academician of Academia Sinica, and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Dr. Yang is a fellow of the AIAA, ASME, Royal Aeronautical Society, and Combustion Institute. He was a vice president and a member of the executive committee of the AIAA (2012-2015).

美國俄亥俄州立大學 機械工程博士 1998~2002
美國俄亥俄州立大學 機械工程碩士 1995~1998
國立成功大學 機械工程學士 1988~1992

國家太空中心 太空運輸系統研發處處長 2023~現在
國家中山科學研究院 OO計畫系統工程組 組長/副組長 2018~2022
晉陞太空科技公司 航電總監 2017~2018
國家太空中心 衛星導航感測器部門經理 2006~2016
國家太空中心 衛星姿態控制小組 助理研究員 2003~2005
國際宇航學會(International Academy of Astronautics)工程科學組通訊會士 2018
國際宇航大會(International Astronautical Federation)星體動力學技術委員會(Astrodynamics Technical Committee)觀察員/會員/專家 2013~2017

Dr. Chang is the Director of Space Transportation System Department responsible for the Satellite Launch Vehicle program of TASA. Prior to his present position, he was the Deputy Director starting from 2018 and later promoted to Director of System Engineering of TC Program in 2022 covering a variety of air-to-air, air-to-surface and air defense missile R&D programs in National Chung-Shan Institute of Technology.

Before this assignment, he joined Taiwan Innovation Space Inc., a private company dedicated to satellite launcher development, in 2017, as the director of GNC & Avionics Department responsible for the development of rocket GNC system, a turning point where he altered his career path from satellite AOCS to Rocket GNC.

In addition to awards received during his years of NSPO service, he was the observer/member/expert of Astrodynamics Technical Committee under the umbrella of International Astronautical Federation (IAF) from 2013 to 2017 and was elected as Engineering Sciences Section Corresponding Member of International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) in 2018.

1981 國立成功大學 造船及船舶機械工程學系 學士
1983 國立台灣大學 造船工程研究所 碩士
1995 美國Case Western Reserve大學 機械航空工程學系 博士

1984-1995 中山科學研究院 第二研究所 第十二組 助理研究員
1995-2005 中山科學研究院 第二研究所 第十二組/液體推進組 副研究員
2005-2023 中山科學研究院 第二研究所 液體推進組 研究員
1997-2003 中山科學研究院 第二研究所 小型液體火箭研發計畫 總工程師
2000-2006 中山科學研究院 第二研究所 液體推進組 副組長
2006-2014 中山科學研究院 第二研究所 液體推進組 組長
2014-2019 國家中山科學研究院 飛彈火箭研究所 副所長
2015-2017 美國NASA RP計畫用登月機研究專案 中科院團隊負責人
2017-2019 國家中山科學研究院 飛彈火箭研究所 先鋒計畫主持人
2019-2023國家中山科學研究院 飛彈火箭研究所 所長 (2023/11 屆退)
2024/01-2025/01 國家中山科學研究院 系統發展中心 科技特助