Subject: Approaching Master Shien-Ming Wu, Exploring Cultivation of High-Level Talents.
Time:  October 22 (Sat) 14:00
Location: Gaotian Lecture Hall, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 
 
A documentary on Dr. Shien-Ming Wu will be shown after JI Dean Jun Ni’s brief introduction and followed by a forum on cultivating high-level talents. 
 
Biography of Shien-Ming Wu:
Prof.  Shien-Ming (Sam) Wu, JI Dean Jun Ni’s mentor, was an internationally recognized leader and expert of the mechanical manufacturing field. He helped to modernize automobile factories and other industries around the world,
 
Dr. Wu developed a system for improving automated mass production. He used mathematical formulas and computerized data from operating machines to analyze production constantly and determine ways to improve precision, quality and efficiency. His method also explored changes that might be made, avoiding the time and expense of actual trial-and-error experimentation.
 
He called his approach "the dynamic data system" and it was adopted by all three major American automobile manufacturers: General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. He served as a consultant to them and 30 other companies.
Dr. Wu published more than 300 articles in scientific and engineering journals and trained 113 doctoral students in manufacturing engineering.

Prof. Wu was a member of Academia Sinica, and served as a guest professor and honorary professor in many famous universities. Many of his students are now professors at famous universities, such as the University of California, Berkeley, Purdue University, and the University of Wisconsin, some of whom have been elected to membership in the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

On mechanical manufacturing in China, Prof. Wu is known to all. Students or visiting scholars who once worked under his leadership are in almost all famous universities.
 
Forum guests:
 
- Dexian Cui Wu, Chairperson of Shien-Ming Wu Foundation.
- Peigen Li, President of Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
- Bingheng Lu, Dean of School of Mechanical Engineering, Xian Jiao Tong University.
- Jichao Xu, Deputy Governor of Henan Province.
- Yang Shen, CEO SAIC_GM.  
- Dwight Carlson, Chairman and CEO, Coherix, Inc., USA
- Marcus Chao（赵克强）, Chairman, Lean Enterprise China, USA
- Yudong Chen（陈玉东）, President, Bosch (China)
- Soo-Hun Lee，Professor, Ajou University, Korea
- Zhongqin Lin, Vice President, SJTU