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Faculty (Director)

Dr. Wei Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the director of the Integrated DEsign Automation Laboratory (IDEAL). Dr. Chen received her Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1995. She is the recipient of the 1996 NSF Faculty Early Career Award and the 1998 ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Metal. Dr. Chen is a member of ASME, AIAA, and ASQC. She is one of the major organizers of the web-based, NSF sponsored, open workshop on decision-based design.

Chen

Dr. Wei Chen
Office:
3027 ERF
Phone:
(312) 996-6072
Fax:
(312) 413-0447
IDEAL:
2060 ERF
Lab Phone:
(312) 413-2318
weichen1@uic.edu

EDUCATION

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P.R. China, 1988
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, 1992
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 1995

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Univ. of IL at Chicago, Chicago, IL.	7/01– present	Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
Univ. of IL at Chicago, Chicago, IL.	8/98– 6/01	Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
Clemson University, Clemson, SC.	8/95– 8/98	Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
Dr. Reinold Hagen Foundation, Bonn, Germany	8/94–12/94	Visiting Scholar, Plastics Technology Center.
Houston Engineers Inc., Houston, TX.	5/91–8/91	Assistant Design Engineer.
Shanghai Machinery Import & Export Corp., Shanghai, China.	8/88–8/90	Project Manager, the Complete Plant & Equipment Department.

HONORS and AWARDS

	National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Award, 1996 - 2001.
	Engineering Alumni Distinguished Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2000.
	1998 ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal achievement award, for "young engineering graduate who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering within ten years of graduation", American Society of Mechanical Engineers/Pi Tau Sigma, November 1998.
	Black & Decker Best Paper Award, 25^th Design Automation Conference, 1998 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, (Paper: Chen. W., Wiecek, M., and Zhang, J., "Quality Utility: A Compromise Programming Approach to Robust Design").
	1998 Alcoa Foundation Research Award. Alcoa Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA.
	Selected Participant, NSF New Century Scholar Workshop, Stanford University, August 1-7, 1998.
	Invited Participant, National Academy of Engineering, Frontiers of Engineering, Irvine, CA, September 18-20 1997.
	Engineering Foundation Conference Fellowship, Optimization in Industry, Palm Coast, FL, March 23-27, 1997.
	Clemson University Award for Faculty Excellence, Board of Trustees, 1996–1997.
	One of the ten finalists for the best paper award of the Sixth AIAA/USAF/NASA/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization, Bellevue, WA, 1996. (Paper: Chen, W., Allen, J. K., Schrage, D.P., and Mistree, F., "Statistical Experimentation Methods for Achieving Affordable Concurrent Design").
	Sigma Xi Doctoral Dissertation Award, Georgia Tech Chapter, 1996.