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