机械学院6.25学术报告预告

报告题目：Into the Design, Fabrication, and Utilization of Surfaces

主讲人：Wang, Qian (Northwestern University, USA)

时间：2012年6月25日10:00

地点：1号教学楼232会议室

报告摘要：
Surfaces form interfaces. As a result, surfaces and interfaces embrace our worlds of nature and engineering. Surface engineering involves at least two principal synergistic components: creating proper surface topography and producing surface and near surface materials. Because of that, and due to the way of surface formation, engineering surfaces have complicated material, chemical, physical, and topographic properties, which make any surface related work complex.  However, the complexity offers tremendous opportunities. Knowledge of the roles of surfaces in physical, chemical and biological processes has inspired numerous innovations that changed our way of life, while the endeavors towards creating desired surfaces have led to the development of novel manufacturing means and processes. Much promise is expected for science-guided discovery and a great deal can be anticipated with prediction-based design, development and implementation of surface technologies. Consideration of the scope of surfaces in that of interfaces may offer further opportunities. The mystery of surfaces is yet to be unfolded, and engineering miracles have just emerged.

Biography
Professor Qian Wang received her Ph. D from Northwestern University, USA, in 1993. She taught for about five years at Florida International University, USA. She is now a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Northwestern University; she also holds a 1000 plan scholar position at the State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Transmission at Chongqing University. She serves Northwestern’s Center for Surface Engineering and Tribology as the Executive Director. She was the Mechanical Engineering Director of the Graduate Studies during 2003-2007 and the Adviser of the ASME Student Chapter during 1998-2003. She is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE). She is one of the awardees of the STLE 2010 Surface Engineering Technical Committee Best Paper Award, STLE 2010 Edmond E Bisson Best Written Contribution Award and the 1997 STLE Captain Alfred E. Hunt Best Paper Award. Her professional society work includes the service as a Board of Director of STLE during 2008-2009, the Chairperson of the 2011 ASME/STLE International Joint Tribology Conference, the Chairperson of the STLE Annual Meeting Program Committee during 2007-2008, the Secretary of the 2005 Word Tribology Congress Technical Program Committee, Member of the Organization Committee of 2007 International Symposium of Computational Mechanics, and Organizer of several Symposia related to Contact Mechanics at the US or International Congress of Computational Mechanics during 2001,2004, 2006, 2007, and 2011.