Dr. Ming Leu, the Keith and Pat Bailey Missouri Professor of Integrated Product Manufacturing at Missouri S&T, is being honored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for his role in advancing manufacturing research.
The professional society has named Leu, who also directs the Intelligent Systems Center at S&T, the winner of its 2018 Milton C. Shaw Manufacturing Research Medal. The award recognizes significant fundamental contributions to the science and technology of manufacturing processes.
Leu was nominated by his colleague Dr. Robert G. Landers, Curators’ Distinguished Professor of mechanical engineering.
“Dr. Leu has made exceptional contributions to the science, engineering and technology of additive manufacturing through his outstanding research, scholarship and creativity in this emerging technology area for 20 years,” writes Landers in his nomination letter. “His research has created three novel additive manufacturing processes, generated the fundamental understanding of these processes, contributed to advancing and optimizing these and other AM processes, and developed innovative applications for these processes.”
Leu has published over 400 referred publications in technical journals and conference proceedings, one e-book and nine book chapters over his 36-year academic career while receiving four U.S. patents (plus two pending). He has delivered more than 300 technical presentations and his publications have received over 8,600 citations with an h-index of 45. Leu has also obtained more than $28 million in external grants since joining Missouri S&T. His technical interests are in the areas of additive manufacturing, virtual prototyping, computer-aided design and manufacturing, robotics and automation, machine dynamics and control, and cyber-physical systems.
Posted by Alan Scher Zagier
Missouri S&T professor receives manufacturing research medal