Li-Chen Hsueh's Resume

1. LI-CHEN HSUEH
(332) 201-8884 | 127 W 106th St #3B, New York, NY 10025
lh2992@columbia.edu | https://www.linkedin.com/in/lichenhsueh/
EDUCATION_____________________________________________________________________________
Columbia University (CU) New York, NY
M.S. in Civil Engineering Sep 2019 - Dec 2020 (exp.)
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) Tainan, TW
B.S. in Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering Sep 2014 - June 2018
Cert. in Disaster Prevention Technology and Management / Aesthetic and Art Sep 2016 - June 2018
CERTIFICATION_________________________________________________________________________
F.E. Civil Exam Nov 2019, NJ
LEED Green Associate Sep 2020, NY
EXPERIENCE____________________________________________________________________________
NYC Mayor’s Office of Resiliency New York, NY
Waterfront Resilience Guidelines Internship June 2020 - Dec 2020 (exp.)
• Assist the Mayor's Office of Resiliency to develop a Neighborhood Coastal Protection Project Guidelines,
including equitably addressing local neighborhood needs, interpreting climate risk assessments, determining
a design flood elevation, and conducting a drainage analysis.
Columbia University New York, NY
Graduate Course Assistant Sep 2020 – Dec 2020 (exp.)
• Hold weekly TA office hours to assist with technical hands-on Revit homework assignments.
• Assist in grading Revit homework assignments, evaluate class final projects, and monitor class activities.
Hydraulic Engineering Office, Public Works Department, Taipei City Government Taipei, TW
Hydraulic Engineering Intern Jul 2015 - Aug2015
• Created Taipei land-use region search system by using QGIS software and Excel VBA functions, thereby
enhanced the efficiency for public servants who use the system
• Monitored and collected data of the city’s flooding situations caused by typhoons to supervisors
CONFERENCE___________________________________________________________________________
Energy Harvesting from Infrastructure and Ocean Systems (EHIOS) Hoboken, NJ
• Poster Presentation, ”Development of Sunflower Technology with a Passive Solar Tracker” Nov 2019
• The 3rd
Place Award - EHIOS Poster Competition
ACADEMIC PROJECTS _______________________________ ___(Portfolio: https://reurl.cc/GkZ3Md)
Development of Sunflower Technology with a Passive Solar Tracker | CU Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
• Design a passive solar tracker system by utilizing active thermal rods and gear system
• Build an actual prototype in the Carleton laboratory to test the mechanism and improve its reliability
• Improve the system’s stability through numerical analysis and adjusting the model in the Carleton lab
Sustainable Microalgae Carbon Reduction Separable System | NCKU Mar 2018 - May 2018
• Honorable Mention - The 3rd
National Climate Change Adaptation Creative Practice Competition
• Addressed with climate change issues by designing a sustainable modular system which can utilize the effect
of photosynthesis in microalgae to consolidate CO2 effectively, and can be easily maintained
• Conceptualized a system which can coexist with the urban environment, and produce additional benefits
for human society by serving as decoration, providing light, and even be considered as renewable energy
• Analyzed and improved the efficiency and reliability of the system through several different experiments
Sustainable Automatic Trash-Collecting Floating Eco-Island | NCKU Feb 2017 - Feb 2018
• Bronze Award - National Transdisciplinary Engineering Project's Competition
• Created a floating architecture to extract suspended trashes from water by utilizing vortex centrifugal
delamination, and built a prototype of the vortex machine to experiment and enhanced its efficiency
• Invented an automatic controlling system to dump the garbage collected by the machine
• Estimated the system’s floating stability by building miniatures to experiment in the fluid mechanics lab
OTHER SKILLS___________________________________________________________________________
BIM Software: Revit / SketchUp / AutoCAD / Lumion
GIS Software: QGIS / ArcGIS