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Keynote Speakers

Research Centers (ERCs), research in education and inclusion, and research Nancy Johnson
opportunities for students and teachers. Lab Group Manager and Technical Fellow
General Motors Research and Development
Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the
University of California at Berkeley in 1985, worked at the General Motors PRESENTATION: SMASIS: PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE
Research Labs as a Senior Research Engineer, and started his academic WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
career as a faculty member at the Pennsylvania State University in 1988. OLMSTEAD 1-2, LEVEL 3 8:00AM–9:20AM
During his Penn State years, Dr. Wang served as the William E. Diefenderfer
Chaired Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Structural Abstract
Dynamics and Controls Lab, Associate Director of the Vertical Lift Research
Center of Excellence, and Group Leader for the Center for Acoustics When the SMASIS conference began, many of the technologies we are
and Vibration. Dr. Wang joined the University of Michigan Department of focused on today were in their infancy or not even started. The use of
Mechanical Engineering in 2008 and has been the Stephen P. Timoshenko smart materials has gradually evolved from high-end, one of kind products
Professor since then. For ten years, he served as the Department Chair for medical, military and aerospace applications to the point of viability
of Mechanical Engineering (2008–2018) and assumed the title of the Tim for mainstream, high yield/low cost products for automotive applications.
Manganello/BorgWarner Department Chair from 2013 to 2018. Many industries can benefit from the technology areas being addressed by
the adaptive structures community. For the automotive industry, there are
Dr. Wang’s main technical interests are in the emerging fields of structural significant potential benefits to be realized, including reduction in vehicle
dynamics and controls, including adaptive structures and materials mass, added design flexibility and reduction in component size and cost.
systems, tunable metamaterials and metastructures, and origami
mechanics; dynamics and controls, with applications in shape, vibration, This presentation will provide a history of SMASIS over the past 10 years.
and wave controls; vibration energy harvesting; structural health A review of the conference with anecdotes of experiences during the
monitoring; and vehicle and robotics system dynamics and controls. He conference will be covered along with a review of the changes in technical
has received various recognitions for his accomplishments, such as the focus. Key technology areas and symposium topics will be covered, and
Pi Tau Sigma-ASME Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, the ASME an outlook of future trends will be provided, especially as it relates to
J.P. Den Hartog Award, the SPIE Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime the automotive industry and our customers. Research in multifunctional
Achievement Award, the ASME Adaptive Structures and Materials Systems systems and inflatable structures will be discussed.
Prize, the ASME N.O. Myklestad Award, the ASME Rudolf Kalman Award,
the ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Best Paper Awards,
the NASA Tech Brief Award, and the SAE Ralph Teetor Award. His major
leadership activities in the professional community include being Chair
of the ASME Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound, Chair of the
ASME Mechanical Engineering Department Heads Executive Committee,
member of the ASME Design Engineering Division Executive Committee,
General Chair of the SPIE Damping and Isolation Conference and of the
ARO Workshop on Smart Structures, Chief Editor for the ASME Journal
of Vibration and Acoustics, Associate Editor of the Journal of Intelligent
Material Systems and Structures, and Editorial Advisory Board Member
for the Journal of Sound and Vibration. Dr. Wang is a Fellow of the ASME,
AAAS, and IOP.

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