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College in Mourning After Passing of ECE Professor Emeritus
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Melanie Ziems

The University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering is mourning the passing of Liang C. Shen, Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Shen died Sunday, September 21 at his home in Houston.

Shen began his long career at UH in 1967, when he joined the ECE faculty after receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard. From 1977 to 1981 he served as Chair of the department, and in 1979 he founded the Well Logging Laboratory, now the Well Logging Consortium.

During his career, Shen supervised 39 master’s students and 11 Ph.D. students, and the textbook he published with Jin Au Kong, “Applied Electromagnetism, 3rd Edition,” is still used by students at UH today. In 1987, he was elected IEEE Fellow. In 1999, he received the Fluor Corporation Faculty Excellence Award from the Cullen College, the school’s highest honor.

Shen retired from his teaching position in the Cullen College in 2004 and was appointed Professor Emeritus the next year. Stuart Long, professor of electrical and computer engineering, met Shen at Harvard and remained close with him throughout his career in Houston. When Shen retired, Long spoke at his goodbye party.

"I am most happy to have had the opportunity to work with Liang, but I am also very sad that he is retiring," Long said at the party. "He is a true gentleman and a scholar, whose lasting hallmark will be the integrity of his research.  For the past 30 years he has been my teacher, my role model, my mentor, my source of knowledge, my co-author, my chairman, my example as an administrator, my colleague, and most importantly my friend."

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