Background
Shaw, David Tai-Ko was born on March 13, 1938 in China. Came to the United States, 1960, naturalized, 1972.
academic administrator engineering educator
Shaw, David Tai-Ko was born on March 13, 1938 in China. Came to the United States, 1960, naturalized, 1972.
Business Systems Modernization-Energy, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 1959. Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy, Purdue University, 1964.
Assistant professor division interdisciplinary studies and research School Engineering, State University of New York-Buffalo, 1964-1967, associate professor faculty engineering and applied science, 1967-1974, professor electrical engineering and nuclear engineering, aerospace and engineering science, 1974-1977, professor electrical engineering, since 1974, director laboratory for power and environmental studies, 1978—1990. Executive director State Institute on Superconductivity, 1987-1997. Visiting professor University Paris, 1976-1977.
Visiting scientist Centre d'Etudes Nucleairs de Fontenay-aux-Roses (France) Commissariat a L'Energie Atomique, 1976-1977. Visiting associate department environmental health engineering California Institute of Technology, 1970-1971. Member United States delegate French Commissariat a L'energie Atomique, 1974, United States delegate Joint Nuclear Energy Agency International Atomic Energy Agency International Liaison Group on Thermionic Electrical Power Generation, Paris, 1974.
Member United States visiting team Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association Aerosol Research (president 1982-1985, Association award 1984, International Aerosol Fellow award 1994), Sigma Xi, Sigma Pi Sigma.
Married Katharine Lin-Yee Yang. Children: Albert, Stanley.