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Faculty | B.S. in Engineering Physics

Grace Ni

  • Program Chair of Physics and Engineering
  • Director of Engineering Programs

  • Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada
  • M.Eng., Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • B.Eng., Information and Control Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

After receiving her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada, Grace Ni developed patented haptic technologies (force-feedback using motorized devices) for virtual reality and telepresence at a Canadian high-tech startup. She then devoted the next 16 years to engineering education before joining Biola University. She has spent the past 13 years at...

Courses

  • PHSC 311 - Computer Techniques in Science and Engineering
  • PHSC 321 - Circuits and Instrumentation I
  • PHSC 420- Directed Research: Mechatronics Project
  • GNST 102 First Year Seminar

Research Interests

  • Haptics
  • Robotics (Robotics Engineering)
  • Mechatronics
  • Controls
  • Engineering Education

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Elaine Wong

  • Assistant Professor of Engineering

  • Ph.D. Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
  • M.S. Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
  • B.S. Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Certification National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying – License # 138094

Dr. Elaine Wong was born and raised in Southern California. Growing up with a non-Christian background, encountering God in a powerful way dramatically changed the trajectory of her life. She has a passion to see God’s glory and beauty transform and heal people’s lives (Isaiah 61). College was a time where she found her passion to pursue her graduate studies in building small-scale water...

Courses

  • CHEM 420 - Directed Research: Water Defluoridation Project
  • PHSC 092- Introduction to Physics
  • PHSC111- Physics I
  • PHSC 117- General Physics I Laboratory
  • PHSC 118-General Physics II Laboratory
  • PHSC 314- Mechanics of Materials
  • PHSC 313- Statics
  • PHSC 420- Directed Research: Water Defluoridation Project
  • PHSC 124- Data Analysis and Presentation
  • PHSC 121- Introduction to Engineering

Research Interests

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Water & Wastewater Treatment
  • Engineering Design
  • Onsite Systems for Drinking Water Production in Developing Countries
  • Defluoridation Systems

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Xidong Chen

  • Professor of Physics

  • Ph.D., Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • M.S., Solid State Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • B.S., Theoretical Physics, Shandong University

My love for physics was kindled by a high school physics teacher in China, where I was born and raised. I came to the United States to further my graduate studies in solid state physics. It was during my second semester at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that I became a Christian. As a professor, I desire to inspire students to love the beauty of physics and to challenge them to understand and think about the underlying order and structure in God's world. As a researcher, I use high resolution microscopy techniques and numerical methods to look at order in various materials, which in turn makes me more effective in my teaching.

Courses

  • PHSC 233 General Physics II Electricity and Magentism
  • PHSC 237 General Physics II Laboratory
  • PHSC 234 General Physics II Waves, Optics and Modern Physics
  • PHSC 318 Classical Mechanics
  • PHSC 331 Thermodynamics
  • PHSC 336 Mathematical Methods in Physics
  • PHSC 340 Electrodynamics
  • PHSC 412 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
  • PHSC 480 Advanced Physics Laboratory

Research Interests

  • Theoretical understanding of surface dynamics.
  • Atomic force microscopy studies of cell structures.
  • Monte Carlo simulation studies of surfaces and interfaces.
  • Fluctuation electron microscopy studies of medium-range ordering in amorphous materials.

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