Tuesday, June 14 4:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
The forum will discuss various challenges associated with a research career and how to be successful professionally in the various settings. The target audience for the forum is recent advanced degree graduates as well as current Master’s and Ph.D. students. Contents to be covered:
Research life and how to be successful professionally,
Sharing of personal stories on career development,
Some words to future manufacturing professionals, and
20 min presentation + 10 min Q/A
Dr. Yong Huang
Dr. Yong Huang, Organizer
Associate Professor, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Email: yongh@clemson.edu
Dr. Yong Huang is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering and adjunct associate professor of Bioengineering at Clemson University, South Carolina, USA. He received his B.S. degree in Mechatronics Engineering from Xidian University, China, his M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Zhejiang University, China and the University of Alabama, respectively, and his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia. His research interests are about processing of engineering & biological materials for healthcare applications and understanding of process-induced defect structure or damage. His current research topics focus on 1) direct writing of biological materials, 2) precision engineering of medical implants and performance evaluation of machined implants, and 3) fabrication of polymeric microspheres, microcapsules, and hollow fiber membranes. He served as the Technical Program Chair for the 2010 American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (ASME MSEC 2010). He was the recipient of ASME International Symposium on Flexible Automation Young Investigator Award (2008), NSF CAREER Award (2008), SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (2006), ASME Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award (2005), and several best paper awards.
Dr. Cedric Xia, Panelist
Technical Leader, Global Materials & Manufacturing CAE Research; and
Group Leader, Sheet Metal Research
Research & Advanced Engineering
Ford Motor Company
Dr. Irem Tumer
Dr. Irem Tumer, Panelist
Oregon State University
Tel: 541-737-6627
Email: irem.tumer@oregonstate.edu
Dr. Irem Tumer joined the Design/Mechanics group in 2006 as Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Oregon State University. Her research focuses on the overall problem of designing highly complex and integrated systems with reduced risk of failures, developing formal methodologies and mathematical frameworks to help understand and enhance complex system design. Her expertise touches on systems engineering, model-based design, risk-based design, system analysis and optimization, function-based design, integrated systems health management, vibration monitoring, which has resulted in numerous journal and refereed conference publications (see Publications.) Prior to accepting a faculty position at OSU, Dr. Tumer led the Complex Systems Design and Engineering group in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center, where she worked from 1998 through 2006 as Research Scientist and Group Lead, and was involved in Project/Program management in various NASA Programs including Intelligent Systems, Engineering for Complex Systems, Aviation Safety, and the Constellation Programs. She received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1998. She is past Technical Program Chair of IEEE Reliability Society’s First Annual Prognostics and Health Management Conference (2008), and Symposium Chair for Integrated Systems Engineering at the ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (2008). She is past Technical Program Chair (2001) and Conference Chair (2002) for ASME’s Design for Manufacturing and the Lifecycle Conference. She is Program Chair for the ASME International Design Theory and Methodology Conference (2011) and future Conference Chair for the same conference in 2012.
Dr. George A. Hazelrigg
Dr. George A. Hazelrigg, Panelist
Deputy Division Director
Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) Division
National Science Foundation
Email: ghazelri@nsf.gov
Dr. George Hazelrigg enjoyed designing and building things when he was young. So he decided to go to college to study engineering. He obtained a B.S. in mechanical engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology and went to work for Curtiss-Wright. There, he found that his education had utterly destroyed his abilities to do engineering design. So he felt it necessary to get a master’s degree. He completed an M.S. in mechanical engineering, also from NJIT, but still hadn’t regained his design abilities. While getting his MS, however, he did some teaching and liked it. So he figured that, if he couldn’t do design, the next best thing would be to teach it. Five years later, he had obtained M.A., M.S.E., and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering from Princeton University. Now, in addition to not knowing how to do design, he couldn’t teach it either. For the next 25 years, he roamed industry and academe in an attempt to understand the theory of engineering design, including time spent at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, General Dynamics, Princeton University and a consulting firm of which he was a co-founder. He also spent a year in Korea helping to found the Systems Engineering Department of Ajou University. He joined the National Science Foundation in 1982 and, in 1996, became program director for the Engineering Design program where, for eight years, he provided support to others in the field. In January, 1996, he did a stint as Station Science Leader of the U.S. South Pole station. Since 2004, he has been Program Director for the Manufacturing and Construction Machines and Equipment program and, since the formation of the CMMI Division, he has been Deputy Division Director. For relaxation, he spends his weekends soaring over the Shenandoah Valley, and he is a certified flight instructor in gliders (CFI-G) with about 1,300 total flying hours.
(Source: http://www.nsf.gov/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=ghazelri&org=CMMI&from_org=CMMI?)
