Educational Consultant

Chor Weng Tan is an Education Consultant focusing on engineering education, continuing professional development, and technology transfer. For 14 years, he was Managing Director of Education at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in New York, NY, responsible for formal engineering education; pre-college science, technology, engineering and math education; and career development and continuing education of engineers and other technical professionals. He served, for two years, as Program Director for the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC, responsible for the Presidential Young Investigators Awards Program, which provided research funding for outstanding young scholars and engineers. For nearly thirty years, he was associated with The Cooper Union in New York, NY, as Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Head of the Division of Engineering, and Dean of the School of Engineering.

He was a founder of the Cooper Union Research Foundation, which was established to provide funding and research project opportunities for faculty and students in the Cooper Union School of Engineering. He was also engaged in research in magneto-hydrodynamics and electro-gas-dynamics at the Grumman Aerospace Corporation. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a member of Tau Beta Pi, Pi Tau Sigma, and Sigma Xi honor societies. He served as a member of several New York City Commissions. He was Education Consultant to Nankai University in China, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is the author or coauthor of over sixty publications. Chor Tan received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Evansville in Evansville, IN, M.S. degree and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois in Urbana, IL.