Yan Hong-sen

Yan Hong-sen is a Taiwanese engineering professor and politician. He was a Minister without Portfolio in the Executive Yuan from 2015 to 2016.

Education

Yan graduated from National Cheng Kung University with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1973. He then earned a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Kentucky in 1977 and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University in 1980.
In order to understand the contents of ancient literature and the development of ancient machinery, he later enrolled in the Chinese Department of Tunghai University at the age of seventy.

Academic career

Upon the end of his studies in the United States, Yan returned to the Department of Mechanical Engineering of NCKU as associate professor from 1980 to 1984, department head from 1986 to 1987 and Vice President from 2011 to 2015. Yan received ASME's Engineer-Historian Award in 2021.

Political career

Yan was appointed as a Minister without Portfolio on 5 February 2015.