FAMU-FSU Chair
Dr. Ben Wang

wANG pHOTO Dr. Ben Wang received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. He is the Chairman of the Department of Industrial Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. Since his appointment as Department Chair in 1993, he has worked closely with the faculty in developing both a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering program (1994) and a doctoral degree in Industrial Engineering program (1997). Under his leadership, the Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering program has continued to receive full accreditation from ABET (Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology) and SACS (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools). In 1998, Dr. Wang founded the Florida Advanced Center for Composite Technologies, a research institute sanctioned by the Florida Board of Regents.

Throughout his career, Dr. Wang has been instrumental in enhancing the dialogue between engineering faculty and practitioners by fostering industrial partnerships. Such dialogues have proven very effective for the faculty's continuing career development. Moreover, industrial partnerships have also provided valuable internships, co-ops, and employment opportunities for engineering students. These opportunities have promoted student business and technical competence.

Currently, Dr. Wang focuses on affordable composites, in particular, substituting metal structures with low-cost, high-performance composite materials. He also specializes in policy and process development for environmentally conscious manufacturing. In 1995, he was named US DOE Dr. Samuel P. Massie Chair of Excellence in Environmental Engineering. In 1998, Dr. Wang founded and became Director of the Florida Advanced Center for Composites Technologies, sponsored by the Florida Board of Regents.

Dr. Wang has served on a number of NSF Grant Review Panels, as well as the DoD Graduate Fellowship Review Committee, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Grants Review Committee, the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, the Egyptian Science and Technology Cooperation Project Review Panel, and the Australian Research Council Grants Review Committee. He has also served as a technical consultant for the Louisiana State Board of Regents and the New York Economic Development Council. Currently, he serves on the Board of Directors for the North Florida Manufacturing Technology Center, which is part of the NIST Manufacturing Extension Program (MEP).

Dr. Wang is an editorial board member for the International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, the Journal of Manufacturing Systems, the Journal of Computers & Industrial Engineering, Engineering Design and Automation, and the Journal of the Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers. He was an invited guest editor for special issues on "Neural Networks in Design and Manufacturing" (IJAMT 1993), "Computer-Aided Process Planning" (JSE 1993), "Computer-Integrated Manufacturing" (C&IE 1994), and "Computer-Aided Maintenance" (C&IE 1995).

Dr. Wang is a co-inventor of four US patents (5566092, 5566273, 5602761 and 5939013). In addition to being the author/co-author of 90 refereed journal papers and 50 conference articles, he is a co-author of three books: Computer-Aided Manufacturing (Prentice-Hall), Computer-Aided Process Planning (Elsevier Science Publishers), and Computer Aided Manufacturing PC Application Software (Delmar Publishers). These books are currently being used worldwide. Computer-Aided Manufacturing was selected to receive the IIE 1992 Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award and the 1992 SME M. Eugene Merchant Manufacturing Textbook Award. Recently, Dr. Wang has edited three books: Integrated Product, Process and Enterprise Design, Concurrent Design of Products, Manufacturing Processes and Systems, and Computer-Aided Maintenance: Methodology and Practices.

Dr. Wang was elected IIE Fellow in 1999. In the same year, he received the AT&T Industrial Ecology Fellow Award and the DOE Outstanding Research and Educational Accomplishment Award. In 1998, he received an IRI/ASEE Engineering Faculty Fellowship Award and a United Nations Development Program Fellowship. In addition, he is the recipient of the 1993 Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society Outstanding Professor Award. For his leadership and significant achievements in manufacturing education and research, Dr. Wang also received the 1990 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award. In 1991, he received the University of Iowa Old Gold Iowa Fellowship, and in 1987, the New York State Improvement of Undergraduate Education Award. As further confirmation of his accomplishments, his biography is listed in Who's Who in Engineering, Who's Who in Global Business Leaders, Who's Who among Asian Americans, and Who's Who in the Midwest.

A Discussion with Dr. Wang on Program Goals

"The concept of what we do is very simple. We design products that can be manufactured, used, and disposed of easily without adverse effects on the environment. According to a recent EPA report, the U.S. spends over 100 billion dollars each year to cleanup various contaminated and polluted sites. Many of those contaminations and pollutions are the result of the shortsightedness of the manufacturing policies and practices of the past. People designed and made products without paying attention to what effects the products or manufacturing processes might have on the environment or how the product might be disposed of once it reached the end of its service life cycle. As a result, various pollutions from solid wastes to toxic chemicals to air pollutants are everywhere seriously threatening the quality of our life and that of future generations. The FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Design for Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing group is developing technologies that will enable engineers to design products with the environment in mind. Such a foreward-looking technological development is guided by four principles:

Book Chapters and Recent Publications in Refereed Journals

  1. "Flow Modeling and Simulation of Vacuum Bag Molding Process Composite Manufacturing," K. Han, C. Zhang, and H.-P. Wang, Journal of Composite Materials, 2000.
  2. "Benchmarking of Composite Manufacturing Processes with Green Quality Function Deployment," K. Han, S. Jiang, C. Zhang, H.-P. Wang, and A. Deshmukh, Journal of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, 2000.
  3. "Green QFD-II: A Life Cycle Approach for Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing by Integrating LCA and LCC into QFD Matrices," P. Zhang, Wang, B., and C. Zhang, International Journal of Production Research, 1999.
  4. "Product Concept Evaluation Using GQFD-II and AHP," P. Zhang, Zhang, C., Wang, B., International Journal of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, 1998.
  5. Concurrent Design of Products, Manufacturing Processes and Systems, Gordon and Breach, 1998.
  6. "Functional Dimensioning and Tolerancing of Manufactured Parts for Fluid Leakage Control," C. Zhang, X.D. Zhang, and B. Wang, Geometric Design Tolerancing: Theories, Standards and Applications, Chapman & Hall, 1998.
  7. "A Product Information Model for Product Design and Computer Aided Process Planning," L. Qiao, Z. Yang, C. Zhang, and B. Wang, Computer-Aided Process and Assembly Planning: Methods, Tools, and Technologies, John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
  8. "Integrated Product and Process Design of Resin Transfer Molded Parts," J. Spoerre, H.-P. Wang, C. Zhang, and R. Parnas, Journal of Composite Materials, 1998.
  9. "Interoperability of STEP Application Protocols for Product Data Management in Concurrent Engineering," P. Zhang, C. Zhang, and B. Wang, International Journal of Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, 1998
  10. Integrated Product, Process and Enterprise Design, Chapman & Hall, 1997.
  11. Computer-Aided Manufacturing, 2nd Ed., Prentice-Hall, 1997.
  12. "A Comparative Study of Machine Cell Formation Algorithms," C. Zhang, S.L. Lee, and B. Wang, Group Technology & Cellular Manufacturing: Methodologies & Applications, Gordon & Breach, 1997.
  13. "Integrated Optimization of Design, Manufacturing and Measurement Tolerances," S.S. Lin, C. Zhang, and B. Wang, Advanced Tolerancing Techniques, Wiley & Sons, 1997.
  14. "Optimal Disassembly Planning for Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing," W. Li, C. Zhang, B. Wang, and S.A. Awoniyi, International Journal of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, 1997.
  15. "Multiattribute Decision Analysis for Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing," D. Ting, A. Deshmukh, and H.-P. Wang, Engineering Design and Automation, 1997.
  16. "A Machine Performance Monitoring and Fault Diagnostics System for Computer-Integrated Manufacturing -Case Studies," H.-P. Wang, et al, Computers and Industrial Engineering, 1997.
  17. "A Machine Performance Monitoring and Fault Diagnostics System for Computer-Integrated Manufacturing -Theorectical Foundation," H.-P. Wang, et al, Computers and Industrial Engineering, 1997.
  18. "Tandem Neural Networks for Welding Process Control," H. Huang and H.-P. Wang, Journal of Systems Engineering, 1997.
  19. "Turbo-CAPP: A Knowledge Based Computer Aided Process Planning System," H.-P. Wang and R.A. Wysk, Annals of CIRP, 1997.
  20. "Integrated Product and Process Design of Resin Transfer Molded Parts," J. Spoerre, H.-P. Wang, C. Zhang and R. Parnas, Journal of Composite Materials, 1997.
  21. "Robust Design of Machining and Assembly Tolerance Allocations," C. Zhang and H.-P. Wang, IIE Transactions, 1997.
  22. "Statistical Tolerance Analysis Based on Beta Distributions," S. Lin, H.-P. Wang and C. Zhang, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 1997.
  23. "Form Accuracy Analysis and Prediction in Computer-Integrated Manufacturing," Q. Liu, C. Zhang and H.-P. Wang, International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, 1997.
  24. "Automated Tactical Maintenance Planning Based on Machine Monitoring," G.M. Knapp and H.-P. Wang, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 34, No. 3, 1996, pp. 753-765.
  25. "Machine Fault Diagnostics Using a Transputer Network," H.H. Huang and H.-P. Wang, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 30, No. 2, 1996, pp. 269-282.
  26. "Performance Analysis of Rotating Machinery Using Enhanced Cerebellar Model Articulation Controller (E-CMAC) Neural Networks," C.C. Lin and H.-P. Wang, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 30, No. 2, 1996, pp. 227-242.
  27. "Statistical Tolerance Analysis with a Finite Range Probability Function and Numerical Convolution," P. Varghes, R.N. Braswell, P., C. Zhang, and H.-P. Wang, Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 28, No. 9, 1996, pp. 723-732.
  28. "An Integrated Monitoring and Diagnostic System for Roller Bearings," H.-H. Huang and H.-P. Wang, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 12, No. 1, 1996, pp. 37-46.
  29. "A Design of Experiment Approach to the Selection of CMM Form-Fitting Algorithms," P. Varghese, C. Zhang, and H.-P. Wang, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 43, No. 10, 1996, pp. 723-732..
  30. "Optimal Disassembly Planning for Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing," W. Li, C. Zhang, H.-P. Wang and S.A. Awoniyi, International Journal of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1996.
  31. "Tolerance Analysis and Synthesis Using Vectorial Tolerancing," P. Varghese, C. Zhang, and H.-P. Wang, Engineering Design and Automation, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1996, pp. 127-140.

Professional Organizations/Associations

Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Senior member, 1987-present, Executive Committee Member, Chapter 10, 1989-1990

Society of Manufacturing Engineers, affiliate member SUNY/Buffalo, Representative 1990

Fellow, Institute of Industrial Engineers, 1999-present

American Association of Artificial Intelligence, senior member, 1988-present

International Society for Productivity Enhancement, 1990-1993

American Society for Engineering Education, 1994-present

List of Accomplishments

1999-1996

AT&T Faculty Fellow in Industrial Ecology

IIE Fellow

U.S. Patent 5939013

Director of Florida Advanced Center for Composites Technologies

Concurrent Design of Products, Processes and Systems, Gordon and Breach Publishers

CJIIE Editorial Board

Computer-Aided Maintenance, Chapman & Hall Publishers

United Nations Development Program Fellowship

IRI/ASEE Lockheed Martin Fellowship

NFMTC Advisory Board

U.S. Patent 5602761

Computer-Aided Manufacturing (2nd Ed.), Prentice Hall Publishers

Integrated Product, Process and Enterprise Design, Chapman & Hall Publishers

ABET Accreditation (BSIE), FAMU-FSU College of Engineering

PhD in IE Program added to FAMU-FSU College of Engineering

U.S. Patents 5566092, 5566273

1995-1993

JED&A Editorial Board

Who's Who Registry of Global Business Leaders

Who's Who in the Midwest

Who's Who among Asian Americans

Professor & Chairman of Industrial Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering

JDM Editorial Board

JMS Editorial Board

JC&IE Editorial Board

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