The 15th Oral History Community Forum was wonderfully held last Sunday, October 16th, 2016. It was our great pleasure to have Mrs. Agnes Lee (吳宗鳳女士) to share with us her life story and experience of her successful art exhibition One Thousand Words in New York early this year.

Born in Chungking, China, Agnes grew up in Hong Kong before moving to Taiwan. After graduating college, she moved to the United States to earn her Master’s and Ph. D. degrees in Physical Chemistry. Agnes selflessly devoted much of her professional career to medical research, playing a pivotal role in establishing a Bone Marrow Registry in Taiwan, which has helped save hundreds of lives. Agnes fell in love with the arts at a young age, and has actively pursued her own artistic expression since leaving the medical field.

One Thousand Words is a dynamic and exhilarating collection of Agnes’ paintings. Through meticulous repetition, she creates visual abstractions of Chinese poems which act as expressions of her own feelings and memories and elicit a profoundly personal and emotive reaction from the viewer. As with traditional Chinese paintings, a deeper meaning is hidden in each of Agnes’ works that is waiting to be discovered by those who look for it. Continue reading October Community Forum : Review of One Thousand Words →

Last week Sunday, June 19th, 2016. We were honored to have Mr. Key Donn (唐克先生) as a speaker of our monthly community forum.

Mr. Donn, a first-generation Chinese American, was born in Nanking, China and grown up in Taiwan. Key received his bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Chung-Yuan Christian College in Taiwan, 1971 and an MBA in Information Management from City University in Seattle, 1993. Key also worked toward his MS in Computer Science from California State University in Fullerton, California during 1978 -1980 period.

As a Senior System Architect in BCA CAS BDS System Domain Architecture supporting Toolbox and Material Management IT, Mr. Donn is responsible for infrastructure performance and capacity planning for both programs. His efforts and achievements have earned him multiple awards in the past several years.

Mr. Donn has worked on a diverse range of assignments in Boeing’s defense and commercial airplane business units in the past 31 years, including the first Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) in Fabrication Division and the first Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) delivery for NATO Midterm project. Key retired on April 25^th, 2015 after 35 years in Boeing. Continue reading June Community Forum: Open Mind and Giving Back →

Last week Sunday, May, 15th, 2016. We were honored to have Prof. Jianhua Wang (王建華教授) as a speaker of our monthly community forum. 

Dr. Wang Answers Questions from the Audience

Francis C. Wang was born in April of 1937 in the Rockefellers Memorial Hospital, Beijing, China. In June of 1949, he came to Taiwan with his family after fleeing the Chinese mainland as the result of a complete defeat of the Nationalists by the Chinese Communists in a civil war. He graduated from National Cheng-Kung University in 1960 with a BS in Transportation Management. In 1962 he came to America as a student. In the next 10 years he worked hard to get an education in Electrical Engineering. Eventually in 1972 he obtained a Ph. D from University of Minnesota.

From 1972 through 1990 he worked in industry and the companies he worked for included Bell Telephone Laboratories and the Boeing Company. For the following 25 years of his career, he became an educator at several universities as a professor, department head, dean, and president. After retirement in 2002 when reaching 65 years of age, he continued to teach part time at various Universities in the Puget Sound area and currently teaches in the EE Department at University of Washington. He also leads an active extracurricular life. His major writings and publications include: Digital Circuit Testing: A Guide to DFT and Other Technique, ISBN: 0-12-734580-9 and other articles on the subjects of testing and metrology.

Dr.Shen Introduces Dr.Wang’s Talk

TECO Director General Chin introduces Dr. Wang’s Talk