Wei Chen (engineer)
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Wei Chen is a Chinese-American mechanical engineer known for her work on robust engineering design, robust design of experiments, metamodeling in design, uncertainty quantification, and design under uncertainty.[1] She is the Wilson-Cook Professor in Engineering Design at Northwestern University, where she chairs the mechanical engineering department.[2]
Chen earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a master's degree from the University of Houston, and a Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology,[3] completed in 1995.[4] She joined the Northwestern University faculty in 2003.[2]
She is the editor-in-chief of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design and president of the International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization.[3] She became chair of mechanical engineering at Northwestern in 2020.[2]
Book
Chen is the coauthor with Christopher Hoyle and Henk Jan Wassenaar of the book Decision-based Design: Integrating Consumer Preferences into Engineering Design (Springer, 2012). She is also a co-editor of several edited volumes.[5]
