Kon-Well Wang

Dr. Kon-Well Wang is the A. Galip Ulsoy Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and Stephen P. Timoshenko Professor of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at the University of Michigan (U-M). He has been the U-M ME Department Chair (2008-18), and has served as a Division Director at the U.S. National Science Foundation. Wang received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He started his academic career at the Pennsylvania State University in 1988, and joined the U-M in 2008. He is a recipient of many top awards in the field, such as the ASME Rayleigh Lecture Award, the Pi Tau Sigma-ASME Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, the ASME J.P. Den Hartog Award, the SPIE Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award, and the ASME Adaptive Structures and Materials Systems Prize. He has been the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) for the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics , and is the current EIC for the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems & Structures . Wang is a