Dr. Kon-Well Wang is the Department Chair and Stephen P. Timoshenko Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A. He received his BS from Taiwan University and his MS and PhD degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. After completing his PhD, Dr. Wang worked at General Motors Research Labs for three years as a Senior Research Engineer, before starting his career in academia as an Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University in 1988. During his Penn State years, Professor Wang served as the William E. Diefenderfer Chaired Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Structural Dynamics and Controls Lab, Associate Director of the Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence, and Group Leader for the Center for Acoustics and Vibration. Dr. Wang joined the University of Michigan in June 2008.
Professor Wang's major technical interests are in structural dynamics and vibration, and adaptive structural systems. He has published over 200 technical articles and is the holder of several patents in these areas. Professor Wang is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and has received numerous recognitions for his accomplishments in research and education; including the ASME N.O. Myklestad Award for major innovative contribution to vibration engineering, the ASME Adaptive Structures and Materials Systems Prize for significant contributions to the advancement of the sciences associated with adaptive structures and/or material systems, the NASA Tech Brief Award, the Society of Automotive Engineers Ralph Teetor Award, the Penn State Engineering Society (PSES) Premier Research Award, and the PSES Outstanding Teaching Award. Dr. Wang has chaired the ASME Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound, and has been the General Chair to the Army Research Office Smart Structures Workshop and the SPIE Damping and Isolation Conference. He is currently the Chief Editor of the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures. |