Professor Wei Chen gave an invited talk on “Design of Manufacturable Multiscale Structures using Robust Topology Optimization” in the IUTAM Symposium on “When topology optimization meets additive manufacturing – theory and methods” in Dalian, China, October 2018.
Professor Wei Chen and other IDEAL members (Dr. Youyi Bi, Akshay and Umar) attended the 2018 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE2018) in Quebec City, Canada. We had three publications in this conference: Li, X., Yang, Z., Brinson, L.C., Choudhary, A.N., Agrawal, A., and Chen, W., “A Deep
For the NSF sponsored project (award #1662435 , #1662509, #1753770), “Concurrent Design of Quasi-Random Nanostructured Material Systems (NMS) and Nanofabrication Processes using Spectral Density Function”, collaborators from Northwestern University (PI Chen), University of Wyoming (PI TeYu Chien), and Leigh University (PI Ganesh Balasubramanian met at University of Wyoming in August 2018 for research discussion and
Professor Wei Chen was a semi-plenary speaker on “A Data-Driven Stochastic Multiscale Analysis Framework for Design of Microstructural Material Systems” in the WCCM (World Congress of Computational Mechanics), in New York, NY, July 2018.
Professor Wei Chen was a keynote speaker on “Multiscale and Multidimensional Quantification and Propagation of Manufacturing Induced Uncertainty”, in the ISFA (International Symposium on Flexible Automation), in Kanazawa, Japan, July 2018.
Two Ph.D. candidates, Xiaolin Li and Yichi Zhang, graduated this June. The two joined the alumni of IDEAL after successfully defended their Ph.D. dissertation, titled ‘Interphase Modeling and Data Analytical Approaches for Polymer Nanocomposites Design‘ and ‘A Data-driven Approach for Heterogeneous Materials Design‘, respectively. IDEAL faculty and students threw a party to celebrate their graduation.
IDEAL lab member Yu-Chin Chan received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship award, April 2018.
Read more about Journal of Mechanical Design(JMD): http://www.asmejmd.org/ Effective January 2018, Dr. Wei Chen takes over as the Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD). JMD has more than 900 annual submissions and is the top quartile journal among 130 journals in the mechanical engineering field rated by ISI.
Dr. Wei Chen is the recipient of 2018 Ver Steeg Faculty Award by the Graduate School at Northwestern University. This award recognizes one outstanding faculty member and one outstanding staff member each year for their contributions of excellence in working with graduate students of The Graduate School. Her award citation is: As a Director of Graduate Studies, Professor
