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Academic awarded for contributions to engineering, design

A Taiwanese academic has won three awards and an honorary doctorate degree, all within 40 days, for his contributions to the fields of industrial manufacturing design and quality control improvement.

Jeff Wu (吳建福) clinched the Shewhart Medal last month for his “seminal contributions to parameter design and quality improvement” and to “education of a generation of quality professionals and professors.”

The Shewhart Medal, the highest honor awarded by the American Society for Quality, was established in memory of Walter Shewhart, who was a physicist, engineer and statistician, and is sometimes known as the “father of statistical quality control.”

The Pan Wen Yuan Foundation announced on May 12 that Wu had won its Outstanding Research Award this year for his research in manufacturing engineering, statistical theory, methodology and quality control, the officials said.

Wu also earned a medal as the Conference Honoree at this year’s ASA Quality and Productivity Research Conference held on June 4 by the American Statistical Association in Madison, Wisconsin, for “seminal contributions to statistical theory and methods for quality and productivity.”

An honorary doctorate degree in mathematics was also conferred on Wu at a commencement ceremony held on June 13 at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

Wu was a lecturer at the university between 1988 and 1993.

Wu is presently chair professor in Engineering Statistics under the US-based Georgia Institute of Technology, the officials said.

He was elected an academic at the Academia Sinica in 2000 and an academic of the US-based National Academy of Engineering in 2004.
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