Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering
Professor Emeritus, Industrial and Operations Engineering
J. Reid and Polly Anderson Professor Emeritus of Manufacturing
Degrees
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1990
M.S., University of Michigan, 1986
B.S., Tianjin University, 1983
Research Interests
Manufacturing systems: configuration design, performance analysis (quality, productivity and responsiveness), mass customization. Assembly and materials joining: Assembly system design, variation propagation analysis, joint design, joining/welding methods Sheet Metal forming: stamping, hydroforming Engineering statistics: statistical process control and monitoring, robust design
Honors & Awards
- Blackall Machine Tool & Gage Award, ASME, 2017
- Best Applications Paper, IIE Transactions on Quality and Reliability Engineering, 2017
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers Gold Medal, 2017
- Member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), 2015
- S. M. Wu Research Implementation Award, SME/NAMRI, 2014
- Fellow, CIRP, 2012
- Best Paper Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012
- William T. Ennor Manufacturing Technology Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012
- Research Excellence Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, 2006
- Robert Caddell Faculty/Graduate Student Team Award (with Ph.D. student Guosong Lin), September 2005
- Outstanding Overseas Young Scientist, Chinese National Natural Science Foundation, January 2004
- Teaching Incentive Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2001, 2003
- Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, March 2003
- Best Paper Award, Design Engineering Technical Conference/6th Design for Manufacturing Conference, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, September 2001
- Faculty Fellow, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Agency), October 2001-December 2001
- Faculty Achievement Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2000
- Recognized by Society of Automotive Engineers International for developing the Body-in-White Certificate Program with General Motors, February 1999
- Robert Caddell Faculty Research Achievement Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, The University of Michigan, 1997
- CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 1996
- Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1993
Faculty Type
Emeritus