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Keynotes
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Professor Debasish (Deba)
Dutta
Scholar-In-Residence, National Academy of Engineering
Dean of the Graduate College and Associate Provost
Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell
Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: 5/21/2014
Title: Realizing the Potential of Digital Manufacturing
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Debasish (Deba)
Dutta is Associate Provost and
Dean of the Graduate College, and Edward William
and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor in the
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
and a Professor of Industrial and Enterprise
Systems Engineering. He has extensive experience
in higher education and policy making. He is a
Scholar-in-Residence at the National Academy of
Engineering, where he recently completed a study
on the
lifelong learning needs of U.S. engineering
professionals and currently leads an NSF funded
national study about education for innovation.
During 2004-2007 he served at the National
Science Foundation as Acting Director of the
Division of Graduate Education,
IGERT Program
Director and as Advisor in the Office of
Assistant Director, Education and Human
Resources. He played a key role in the
development of NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure
Strategy (Vision
for 21st Century Discovery) chairing its
Learning and Workforce Development
sub-committee. He was a selected to be a member
of the Illinois team in the 2010 Education
Leaders Institute of the National Endowment for
the Arts.
Dutta received his Ph.D. from Purdue University
in 1989, and was on the faculty at the
University of Michigan from 1989-2008. He has
published extensively in the area of computer
aided design and manufacturing, and currently
focuses on interoperability issues in product
lifecycle management. He serves on the GRE
Board and the TOEFL Board (both of ETS), the
Board of Illinois Consortium for 21st Century
Schools, a 501c(3) for K-12 education, and on
the editorial boards of several journals. He has
received several awards including the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers Design
Automation Award for pioneering contributions in
mechanical design automation and the Smithsonian
Computerworld Honors for pioneering uses of
information technology in engineering education.
A Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers, he co-founded the IFIP
International PLM Conference and has been the
William Mong Scholar at the University of Hong
Kong and a Guest Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong
University in China. He is a member of American
Society for Engineering Education and the
Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
Abstract
Digital Manufacturing is envisioned as an effective strategy that integrates and drives the entire life cycle of a product - from conception to design and manufacturing to product support. The key to the success of this vision is networked, integrated, and data-driven strategies. The first half of this lecture will focus on “What is next” in the vision of Digital Manufacturing. We shall look at its evolution from a set of IT-support tools to tools that leverage information to support business decisions to the future in which it will drastically alter manufacturing. We will take inspiration from Additive Manufacturing that has revealed to us what “digital” is capable of; our goal is to derive learnings/best practices that can help with building blocks for the future of digital manufacturing. In the second half of this lecture, we shall consider "How to reach there", i.e., we shall raise important research questions to be addressed in enabling the future vision of digital manufacturing. We shall discuss in detail a couple of representative problems, describing technical challenges in addressing them and major components of the technology solutions that we have developed.
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Professor Chen Chun-Hsien
Editor-in-Chief for Advanced Engineering Informatics (ADVEI)
Division of Systems and Engineering Management
School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Date: 5/22/2014
Title: Design Informatics in Consumer-centric Product Conceptualization
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Chun-Hsien Chen is an Associate
Professor (tenured) and the Director of Design Stream in the
School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore. He received his BS degree
in Industrial Design from National Cheng Kung University,
Taiwan. He received his MS and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering
from the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. He has had
several years of experience in the product design & developmen
industry.
His teaching and research interests are in
collaborative/human-centric/consumer-oriented product design and
development, knowledge engineering, design sciences, engineering
informatics and artificial intelligence in product/engineering
design. He has more than 120 publications in these areas.
Dr. Chen has served as a technical reviewer for the National
Science and Technology Awards (Singapore), a judge for the Pin
Up Design Awards (South Korea), and an advisory board
member for various international conferences held in USA,
Europe, China, Korea, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Dr. Chen
joined the editorial board of Advanced Engineering Informatics (ADVEI)
in April 2005 and was appointed Associate Editor in
January 2010. As from January 2013, he was appointed as
Co-Editor-in-Chief of ADVEI.
Besides ADVEI, he is an editorial board member of Recent Patents
in Engineering. He is/was a Shanghai Eastern Scholar (appointed
by Shanghai Maritime University as an Eastern Chair Professor,
since 2011), a Visiting Professor of National Cheng Kung
University (2011), a Guest Professor of Shanghai Maritime
University (since 2006), and Chaoyang University of Technology
(2008 - 2010).
Abstract
Understanding
and
fulfilling
each
individual
customer’s
requirements
has been
recognized
as a
pressing
challenge
for
companies
across
industries.
Apart from
offering
market-focused
products,
which
corresponds
to an
average
satisfaction
of customer
requirements,
companies
are pursuing
a strategy
of offering
customer-focused
products
with a large
degree of
individuality.
Customer
requirement
management
thus becomes
one of
principal
factors for
product
development
to succeed
in the
marketplace.
Poor
understanding
of customer
requirements
and
inaccurate
assumptions
made during
the
elicitation
and analysis
of
requirement
information
have
significant
negative
implications
on design
and
manufacturing
of the
product in
terms of
quality, the
lead time
and cost.
Traditionally,
consumer
market
research has
been
performed to
provide
direction
and support
for product
development
functions.
However, due
to the
increasingly
volatile
marketplaces
where
customer
requirements
change
quickly, the
needs of
customers
might have
varied from
the
originally
elicited set
by the time
the products
reach the
marketplaces.
Hence, the
recent
wide-spread
usage of the
Internet by
consumers
for
information
exchanges
has provided
a means for
product
developing
companies to
elicit
real-time
consumer
intelligence.
To tap on
the massive
amount of
information
on the
Internet,
computational
toolsets
that can
extract and
analyze
customer-related
data will be
necessary.
In this
regard, the
future
relevance of
the research
in design
informatics
has
attracted
academics
with various
backgrounds,
mainly from
the domains
of computer
science,
artificial
intelligence,
cognitive
science,
product
design and
innovation,
and consumer
intelligence.
With respect
to a
holistic
view of
design
informatics
in
consumer-centric
product
conceptualization,
key
challenges
and future
research
directions
are
identified.
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Professor Weijia Jia
Zhiyuan Chair Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering Shanghai Jiaotong
University
Date: 5/23/2014
Title: Camera Networks for Smart Cities
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Weijia Jia received BSc and MSc from Center South University,
Changsha, China in 1982 and 1984 and Master of Applied Sci. and
PhD from Polytechnic Faculty of Mons, Belgium in 1992 and 1993
respectively, all in Computer Science.
He is a Zhiyuan Chair Professor in the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University. He joined
German National Research Center for Information Science (GMD) in
Bonn (St. Augustine) from 1993 to 1995 as a research fellow.
During 1995-2013, he joined Department of Computer Science, City
University of HK as a professor. His research interests include
next generation wireless communication, protocols and
heterogeneous networks; distributed systems, multicast and
anycast QoS routing protocols. In these fields, he has a number
of publications in the prestige international journals (IEEE
Transactions, e.g., ToN, TPDS, TC, TMC etc.), books/chapters and
refereed international conference proceedings (e.g. ACM CCS,
WiSec, MobiHoc, SenSys, IEEE ICDCS, INFOCOM etc.). He has
published a book “Distributed Network Systems” by Springer where
the book contains extensive research materials and
implementation examples. He has received the best paper award in
a prestige (IEEE) conference.
Prof. Jia is the guest Professor of Beijing U (ShenZhen Graduate
School), University of Science and Technology of China, Beijing
Jiao Tong University, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Chengdu
University, China. He has served as the editors of IEEE TPDS and
ComCom and PC chairs and members/keynote speakers for various
prestige international conferences. He is the Senior Member of
IEEE and the Member of ACM.
Abstract
We will introduce some key technologies
used in smart cities with the future network. Particularly
relevant in the fifth generation of the key technologies of
wireless camera sensor networks and systems. I will then
introduce some recent developments of systems and outcomes of
theoretical investigations on this particular topic in our team.
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