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Professor Fu-Kuo Chang's primary research interest focuses on multi-functional materials and intelligent structures, emphasizing structural health monitoring, intelligent self-sensing diagnostics, and multifunctional energy storage composites applicable to safety-critical assets such as transportation vehicles and medical devices. His specialties include embedded sensors, stretchable sensor networks with built-in self-diagnostics, integrated diagnostics and prognostics, damage tolerance, and failure analysis in composite materials. He employs advanced multi-physics computational methods for multi-functional structures and engages in multidisciplinary engineering, combining structural mechanics, electrical engineering, signal processing, and materials science. Recent research topics encompass multifunctional energy storage composites, integrated health management for aircraft structures, and bio-inspired intelligent sensory materials for autonomous vehicles. Chang's pioneering work has led to significant contributions in active sensing diagnostics of composite structures and the development of self-diagnostic high-temperature materials.
The Computer Science department emphasizes research potential. GRE General is currently optional but recommended for some tracks.