IE's Wu receives prestigious award, invitation to CAFOE symposium
Wenzhuo Wu, the Ravi and Eleanor Talwar Rising Star Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering, was one of two young professionals selected by The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) as a Young Leaders Professional Development Awardee for 2022.
The Young Leaders Professional Development Award provides an opportunity for young, professional members of TMS to advance in the field of materials science through participation in Society activities. Through interaction with TMS division leaders, young individuals participate in the decision-making and long-range planning of the Society. Recipients receive TMS membership, and compensation to attend all events at the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition to assist their participation in Society and Division activities.
“I am grateful and honored to receive the 2022 TMS FMD Young Leaders Professional Development Award,” Wu said. “This award will not only provide valuable opportunities for me to get more engaged with TMS but also inspire me to strive towards my long-term career goals. I look forward to contributing back to the TMS community through increased engagement in technical committees, the FMD division and the Society.”
This award is funded by the TMS Foundation to encourage the participation of outstanding future leaders under 40 years old in TMS activities. TMS strives to maintain a balance among applicants from industry, government and academia.
Wu also has been invited to participate in the 2022 China-America Frontiers of Engineering (CAFOE) symposium July 18-20 as a meeting-within-a-meeting event. Sixty highly accomplished early-career engineers from China and the United States will meet for an intensive symposium on developments at the cutting edge of engineering technology in four areas: Wearable Electronics and Human Health, Water Sustainability, Additive Manufacturing and Beyond, and Food Safety in the Context of Big Data and Genomics. The event is intended to facilitate international and cross-disciplinary research collaboration, promote the transfer of new techniques and approaches across disparate engineering fields, and encourage the creation of a transpacific network of world-class engineers.
In 2008, CAFOE was initiated with the aim of bringing together outstanding early-career Chinese and American engineers from industry, universities and other research institutions to introduce their areas of engineering research and technical work, thereby facilitating an interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge and methodology that could eventually lead to collaborative networks of engineers from the two countries.
The symposium is carried out in cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Engineering and supported by The Grainger Foundation and the National Science Foundation.