Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, U.S., 1989.12
M.S., Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, U.S., 1987.5
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, 1984.6
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, China, 1981.12
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2010 – now Professor, Director of the IME (since 2013)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
2006 – 2014 Director, WPI-China Senior Project Center in Engineering
2005 – 2012 Coordinator of Robotics Concentration of ME Degree
2005 – 2010 Director, Saint Gobain Senior Project Center
2004 – Associate Director of Manufacturing & Materials Engr. Program
2003 – 2010 John W. Higgins Professor of ME
1999 – Director of Computer-aided Manufacturing Laboratory
1998 – Associate Professor, Professor (since 2004), Department of ME
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL
1990 – 1998 Assistant, Associate Professor (since 1996) of Manufacturing Systems, Department of Technology, College of Engineering
Guest Professorship
2005 (May-July) Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, Japan, Department of ME
1998– Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China,School of ME
1996 (Aug.-Dec.)University of Illinois; Urbana, IL, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
1995- Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, China, Department of ME
1995 (May-July) Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH, Summer Faculty Research Associate, Laboratory of Materials
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
1994-1996 Guest Associate Professor, Department of Precision Instruments
1992 Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Precision Instruments
1984-1985 Faculty Member, Department of Precision Instruments
John W. Higgins Professorship, WPI, 2003-Present
Outstanding Paper Award at 37th Annual North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC), Clemson University, Greenville, SC, May 19-22, 2009
Adviser of awarded student project, Three Cylindrical Die Forced Thru-Feed Spline Rolling Adaptation for Design of 2.5 Module Spline Rolling Machine Tools, by David Willens, Sponsored by Kinefac Corporation, Worcester, MA, First Class Award of 2008 ASME Manufacturing Division Design Student Competition ($1,000)., 2008
ASME Fellow, 2004
Best Paper Award at 24th ASME Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2004
Best Paper Finalist at 2004 Japan-USA Symposium, on Flexible Automation, Denver, CO, 2004
Best Paper Finalist at 4th SAE International Machining & Grinding Conference, Troy, MI, 2001
[1] G. Wang, Y. Rong, Computational Modeling and Simulation of Heat Treatment for Metal Alloy, Willey & Sons, 2014 (under development)
[2] G. Wang, Y. Rong, R. Sisson, “Heating and Heat Flow Simulation”, ASM Handbook Volume 22 Modeling and Simulation: Processing of Metallic Materials – Article 13A, 2009, pp.459-474.
[3] Y. Rong, S. H. Huang, and Z. Hou, Advanced Computer-aided Fixture Design, Elsevier Science & Technology, ISBN 0125947518, Academic Press, April 2005; translated into Chinese and published in 2010
[4] F. Looft and Y. Rong, “The Capstone Project: Integrated Experience”, Chapter 8 in Shaping Our World, Engineering Education for the 21st Century, Editors, G. Tryggvason and D. Apelian, Wiley and Sons, 2012, pp. 123-150.
