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Awards

SIPS Commendation Award, 2023 Awarded by the Society for Improving Psychological Science APS Rising Star Designation, 2022 Awarded by the Association for Psychological Science (APS) Patricia B. Elmore Award for Outstanding Research in Measurement and Evaluation, 2020 Jointly awarded by the...

Teaching

ACADEMIC COURSES TAUGHT Measurement Theory and Psychometrics (PSY205), University of California, Merced, Graduate-level, 2019-present Item Response Theory (PSY210), University of California, Merced, Graduate-level, 2019-present Analysis of Psychological Data (PSY010), University of California...

Research

I am a sociologist with research interests in the following areas: culture, poverty, social stratification, education, race & ethnicity, and gender. Broadly speaking, I am interested in the question of how race, gender, and class shape how individuals and groups make sense of the social world and...

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Yang Lor is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of California, Merced. To learn more about his background, teaching philosophy, and research, please select from the menu.

Bio

YangQuan Chen (SM '95 SrM '98) received the B.S. degree in industrial automation from the University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing, China, in 1985, the M.S. degree in automatic control from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree in advanced control and instrumentation from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, in 1998. He is currently an Associate Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Utah State University, Logan, and the Director of the Center for Self-Organizing and Intelligent Systems. He is the holder of 13 U.S. patents in various aspects of hard disk drive servomechanics and one US patent on fractional order controller tuning.

Teaching

Teaching Philosophy and Interests (as of 2002) | 2nd Edition of SimuBook | ControlMathBook |SIAM book| Thesis I supervised from UMI.com (those I served in USU DigitalCommons) ECE6800 | ECE4850/4840 | ECE/MAE7360 | ECE/MAE7750 | ECE5320 ( story) | ECE/MAE6330 | ECE/MAE 6320 (online) Mechatronics...

Service

Immediate Past Chair, Technical Committee of Mechatronics and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA), ASME DED (Design Engineering Division) (2010-2011) (ASME/IEEE MESA 2011) Chair, Technical Committee of Mechatronics and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA),ASME DED (Design Engineering Division) (2009-2010)Chair, Technical Committee of Mechatronics and Embedded Systems (MES), IEEE ITSS (Intelligent Transportation Systems Society) (2009-2010)Associate Editor, ISA Transactions (2011-)Associate Editor, IFAC journal Mechatronics, (2010-)Designated Editor, IFAC journal Control Engineering Practice (CEP), (2010-)

Projects

The overarching themes in my scholarly work are racism, capitalism, and the law. My research can be broken down into six major projects under these themes. I describe these projects in the side tab. You can click through the tabs below to view the publications in each project, or view all of them on...