Name
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Scott Chen
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| School | School of Engineering and Technology |
| Program | Bachelor of Engineering - Electronic Systems Engineering |
Academic and Professional Designations
| - Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering), University of Waterloo
- B.A.Sc (Electronics Engineering), Simon Fraser University
- P.Eng. (in application)
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| Title | Professor |
| Courses Taught | - EECE71355 - Engineering Project II (W20, W21)
- EECE73250 - Engineering Project V (F19, F20)
- INFO72220 - Operating System (F19, F20)
- MATH71620 / 71630 - Engineering Mathematics I and II (F19, F20, W20, W21)
- PROG71985 - Introduction to Computer Programming (W20, W21)
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| Areas of Expertise & Interest | - Sensor and sensor instrumentation, RF electronics circuits and PCB design
- EM Theory and microwave engineering
- Embedded system design
- Microcontroller platform design
- FPGA platform design with VHDL
- Firmware development via C and assembly
- OOD and procedural programming language courses
- Assembly, C, C++, C#, Java
- Interactive Game Design in Unity
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| Industry Experience, Professional Currency Activities | - Technical Project Manager / Assistant Program Manager, North (Thalmic Labs), Waterloo, ON
- Project manager leading multidiscipline "Focal" smart glasses technical projects via agile methodology
- Assistant program manager for the second generation "Focal 2.0" smart glasses program
- RF/electrical engineering and microfabrication process engineering technical support
- Senior Sensor System Engineer Lead, Sober Steering, Waterloo, ON
- Wearable sensor system for transdermal biomarker monitoring and other biomedical applications on ARM-based embedded target
- Productization-driven technical project lead, RFP submission to NIH
- Embedded System Engineer, Equustek Solutions, Vancouver, BC
Intel 8088-based Zilog embedded system programming in Assembly, C, and C++
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| Major Research Projects, Scholarly Activities, and/or Publications | -
US Patent 9,958,444B2 - "Apparatus, Systems and Methods for Sensing an Analyte such as Ethanol"
- W.T. Chen, R.R. Mansour, "Miniature Gas Sensor and Sensor Array with Single and Dual Modes RF Dielectric Resonators",
IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 66, no. 8, pp. 3697-3704, 2018
- W.T. Chen, K.M.E. Stewart, C.K. Yang, R.R. Mansour, J. Carroll, A. Penlidis, "Wearable RF Sensor Array Implementing Coupling-Matrix Readout Extraction Technique",
IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 63, no. 12, pp. 4157-4168, 2015
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| Additional Information |
Hardware - High performance Resonant Sensor Design and Sensor Instrumentation
- Cleanroom micro/nanofabrication skills with monolithic sensor system integration
- RF-MEMS and biocompatible MEMS and IC design
- MEMS/NEMS cleanroom fabrication skills
- Cryogenic Characterization Equipment
- Computer and processor architecture
- Experienced Microcontrollers / Microprocessors
- Arm Cortex-series, Motorola HC-series
- Experienced FPGA/CPLD
- Xilinx Virtex, Spartan FPGAs, Lattice CPLDs
- Multi-User Microfabrication Processes
- PolyMUMPs, SOIMUMPs, MIT-LL 8-Layer Nb MUMPs
Software
- Programming languages: Assembly, C, C++, C#, Java, VHDL/Verilog, Python
- Operating System: MS Windows, Linux (Ubutntu, RPi OS/Debian), Android
- Development IDE / Engine: Unity Engine, Arm Keil, Android Studio, Visual Studio, Dev C++
- 2D Graphics: Clip Studio Art, IllustStudio, MangaStudio EX
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