Hui Yang, professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering and of biomedical engineering, was named to the annual SME 25 Leaders Transforming Manufacturing list. Credit: Penn State
Professor named to 25 Leaders Transforming Manufacturing list
July 1, 2022
By Ashley J. WennersHerron
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Hui Yang, professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering and of biomedical engineering, was named to the annual SME 25 Leaders Transforming Manufacturing list. SME is a nonprofit organization focused on the manufacturing industry, with specific goals of supporting and promoting advanced manufacturing technology and developing a skilled workforce.
This year’s list focuses on individuals in industry, academia and government who are developing manufacturing techniques and approaches to pandemic-induced challenges, including production and supply chain issues.
Yang, who also directs the Penn State Center for Health Organization Transformation and the Complex Systems Monitoring, Modeling and Control Lab, was selected for his work related to quality management.
“Like an ecosystem, we have people working in isolated efforts in different areas of additive manufacturing, and systems engineers can help connect the dots to provide a framework for quality management,” Yang said in the SME press release. “Quality is indispensable, and if we design a system-level framework of quality management from the start, then we have higher quality and better productivity at less cost. Ultimately, everyone wants to do high-precision, high-end manufacturing, but if quality suffers at any step during production, you lose the competitive advantage needed for the global market.”
Yang also recently received a Fulbright-VTT Scholar Award in Science, Technology and Innovation from the Fulbright Finland Foundation and the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland. He will use the grant to conduct industrial and manufacturing research in Finland.
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