Kendra Rong gave an seminar in CAM Lab. on December 29, 2006. She presented her recent work on Preparation and Applications of Electrochemical Biosensors Based on alumina membrane.

Professor Jie Sun from Shandong University visited our CAM-Lab in December 17-20. He gave a seminar to CAM-Lab members. The topic is on Machining Process Modeling. Professor Sun is in Dong Lu’s Ph. D advisory committee at Shandong University and currently is a visiting scholar at University of Alabama. Dong Lu is a visiting scholar at our CAM Lab for a year.

There are four Sain Gobain MQPs this year at the ME Saint Gobain Project Center where one is advised by Professor Chris Brown. Three Saint Gobain MQP teams presented their progress in A and B terms on December 13, 2006. One project was delayed and will be restarted in C term. An additional MQP sponsored by Middleton Aerospace and advised by Professor Rong was presented too. Several project metors from Saint Gobain participated the presentations.

Professor Rong and his wife made a trip to Singapore and Hong Kong from December 2-10, 2006. Professor Rong was invited by National University of Singapore (NUS) as a visiting professor for a week where he participated the 7 th Asia Pacific Conference on Materials Processing (APCMP), December 4-6, 2006, presented a paper, and gave a seminar at NUS. In Hong Kong, Professor Rong was invited as a Ph. D advisory committee member at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and participated the dissertation defense on December 8, 2006.

Professor Rong participated another NSF panel review meeting at Washington, DC on December 1, 2006.

Professor Rong visited AERCO company at Newark, NJ on November 27, 2006, to evaluate the quality control system in their heat exchanger production.

The traditional CAM-Lab Thanksgiving party was held at Professro Rong’s house on November 23, 2006. Besides the current members of CAM-Lab, Yao Zhou came back from Columbia University, Weiwei Wang joined us too since she was in the area for business. Several special guests joined the celebration and made this year unique. Professor Wuqiang Yang from UMIST, UK, was Professor Rong’s schoolmate in Tsinghua University and got together after more than 20 years. Professor Xin Zhang from Northern Jiaotong University, Beijing, China is Professor Rong’s odl friend and currently working as a visiting scholar with MIT for half a year. Dr. Yongchi Tian came with his wife from Princeton NJ. He was Professor Rong’s “oldest” friend, classmate at primary school. Professor Terai is a visiting scholar at MIT from Japan. Dr. Eraldo da Silva is a visiting scholar from Brazil and currently working at Saint Gobain . Roger Fu came this year too. He is a second year student at Harvard University and his father was Professor Rong’s classmate at Tsinghua University. All enjoyed the turkey and other food, shared the stories about Thanksgiving, and activities such as pin-bang and singing.

MQP in China program had its second get together in the year, on November 20, 2006. More details were introduced and discussed on the projects for summer 2007. Seventeen students formally signed up for the program, many more than the number initially expected, which was ten. Formal interview process will be conducted soon later.

Formal member of CAM-Lab, Doctor Candidate at UC Berkeley, Mr. Zhiyong (Anzy) An visited back WPI and CAM-Lab., together with another formal member, Dr. Yuezhuang (Eric) Kang who is working locally. Anzy may o back China to take a professor position in Economics, which is his major for Ph. D currently.

Roy Uday and his associate from HOH visited WPI and discussed with Professor Rong and Dr. Zhang on the potential collaboration on Heat Treatment research.

Professor Rong made another trip to Asia in November 1-14. He had a meeting with Dr. Kang and Professor Zhu at Tsinghua University on November 2 and visited Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) on November 3. Then Professor Rong visited FixtureWorks in Hangzhou during the weekend and Saint Gobain Shanghai on Monday, November 6, before heading to Japan.

Professor Rong visited the largest manufacturing show in Japan, Japan Machine Tool Show on November 8 in Tokyo and met with Professor Matsumura from Tokyo Denki University at the show. Professor Rong also visited Yokahoma University on November 9 and Kyoto University on November 13, while participated the International Conference Production and Machining Technology, November 9-12 at Matsue, Japan. He also gave a seminar to SME Osaka Chapter on Modeling and Simulation of Heat Treatment Processes on Monday, November 13, before heading back to US on Tuesday.

Professor Rong visited Amphnol TCS, the leader electronic connector producer, at Nashua, NH, on October 27. He toured the company with new development and manufacturing divisions, and introduced the MQP in China program. Amphenol intended to sponsor projects for both Chinese exchange students doing project at WPI and WPI students doing MQP in China at their operations in Changzou, China. The CEO of the company, Richard Schneider is WPI alumni and ME Advisory Board Member.

Organized by IGSD of WPI, MQP in China program was introduced in project center information meeting on campus on October 26, 2006. More than twenty students expressed interests in participating.

Professor Rong gave a Materials Science and Engineering (MTE) seminar at WPI on October 25, 2006. He introduced the MQP in China and discussed the difference of culture and education systems as well as the impact on our engineering education processes.

Professor Rong gave a guest lecture to a Management Graduate Class on Changes in China: Personal perspectives, and had discussions with the professor and students in the class.

Professor L. C. Zhang from University of Sydney, Australia, visited CAM-Lab of WPI and gave a seminar on Surface Finish of Ultra-Precision Components: Some Fundamental Aspects in Materials and Mechanics.

Professor Rong and Dr. Zhang participated ASM Annual Meeting at Cincinnati in October 15-17, 2006. Dr. Zhang presented his research work on Mashless Method with Application to Continuous Casting Process Modeling and Simulation.

MQP in China program had its first get together in the 06-07 academic year. Previous and interested/perspective members of the MQP in China program participated. They share the experience and expectation of the China program. A lot of pictures of China, project and non-project related, were shown in the meeting. Professor Rong briefly introduced the operation of the program. All enjoyed the BBQ food.

Professor Takashi Matsumura from Tokyo Denki University visited our CAM-Lab at WPI on October 12, 2006. He gave a seminar to Manufacturing Engineering graduate students and professors as well as local industrial professionals. Professor Matsumura introduced his new research progress on Micro Fabrication for Functional Surfaces.

Professor Rong made another trip to China in September 11-30, 2006.

In Beijing, Professor Rong met with Professor Zhu and his family in the evening of September 12, and had meetings with Professor Kang and Professor Xu at Mechanical Engineering Department of Tsinghua University on September 13, as well as Dr. Jianbin Luo and his associates at Management Training Center at Tsinghua University

In Wuhan, on September 14 and 15, Professor Rong introduced Al Barry, CEO of CIS, to his HUST colleagues and discussed the MQP in China program this year and in the future. He also had meetings with groups of professors and students.

On September 16-18, Professor Rong visited Xiamen University and Huaqiao University. He learned and discussed the research work on grinding technology with Professor Xipeng Xu, and Vice president of Huaqiao University, and his associates. Professor Rong also visited his long time friend, Dr. Williams Guo, at his hometown, Longtan, and one of his company at Xiamen.

On September 19 and 20, Professor Rong visited FixtureWorks company in Hangzhou and CIS in Wuxi.

Professor Rong participated the 12th International Manufacturing Conference (IMCC) in Xi'an, on September 21-23 and two other conferences (International Conference on Surface Technology and Surface Engineering and the 9th International Symposium on Advanced Conference on Surface Finishing Technology and Surface Engineering in Dalian, September 24-28.

On September 29, Professor Rong visited Shandong University at Jinan. He gave a seminar on Computer-aided Production Planning and Fixture Design, met with the university president, Professor Tao Zhan, and had a meeting with Professor Xing Ai and his associates with discussion on machining technology development.

Professor Rong Left Shanghai for backing home on September 30.

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Professor Rong and Dr. Hua Li visited the International Manufacturing Technology Show at Chicago on September 7, 2006. They particularly discussed modular fixture applications in welding operations with Caterpillar and Bluco companies, besides the general new progress in manufacturing industry.

Professor Rong visited GM Powertrain, Kettering University, Ford Tech Center, and Chrysler Tech Center during his trip to Detroit area in August 27-30, 2006.

Xuekun Li gave a seminar to CAM-Lab on August 22, Tuesday, on Preliminary Stusy of Grinding Hardening, which was part of his MS work at Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Professor Jianfeng Li returned his deanship duty at Mechanical Engineering School at Shandong University on August 18, 2006, after working with us at CAM-Lab for four months. We enjoyed working with him and will continue to collaborate with him as well as Shandong University in China.

Professor Rong participated a panel review at Washington, DC for Design, Manufacturing, and Industrial Innovation Division of National Science Foundation.

Xuekun (Chris) Li joined CAM-Lab. In August 2006 as a Ph. D student in Manufacturing Engineering. He graduated from Shandong University (BS) and Shanghai Jiaotong University (MS) in China. His research area is in Machining and Grinding Processes. Zhiyang (Kendra) Rong joined CAM-Lab as an MS student. She was from Beijing University of Astronautics and Aeronautics (BUAA) with BS degree.

Eight senior students and one MS students from WPI went to China for their Major Qualifying Projects (MQP). They worked with fifteen senior students at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in mixed teams on five projects sponsored by Saint Gobain Shanghai Operations, CIS Wuxi Operations, and HUST. The WPI-HUST Senior Project Center of Mechanical Engineering was officially established in the end of July. Professor Durgin and Professor Hou from WPI also visited HUST and participated the student presentations. After the projects, some of the students stayed longer for visiting other places in China. For example, Jake and Rich went to Luoyang ( Song Mountain to see Shaolin Temple), Xi’an, and Beijing. Mark, Todd, and Brian went to Tai Mountain and Beijing. Their project partners helped them a lot. All of them enjoyed the experience in China. For more details, please see the MQP in China web-site.

During this time, Professor Rong participated the 7th International Conference on Frontiers of Design and Manufacturing held in Guangzhou, China, June 19-22; and International Symposium on Flexible Automation held in Osaka, Japan, July 10-12. He presented two papers in the conferences on “Development of Computer-aided Manufacturing Planning Systems for Rotational Parts in Mass Customization” and “ Internet-based Robot Operation Monitoring and Control”. Professor Rong also visited Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Dalian University of Science, and Technology, and HUST.

Professor Rong and Hua Li visited Caterpillar Tech Center at Peoria, IL on June 5 and 6, 2006. They had meetings with Manufacturing Engineering Division and Advanced Materials Division. They also met with David Yang who is a research engineer there while finishing his Ph.D dissertation. Professor Rong gave a seminar on Computer-aided Manufacturing Planning and Fixture Design.

Radha has successfully passed the oral part of his Ph.D qualifying exam on Tuesday, May 30, 2006. He passed the written part in May 9 and 10. Therefore he has officially become a Ph. D candidate. Congratulations to Radha.

Professor Rong and Professor Li attended North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC) at Marquette University of Milwaukee, WI on May 25, and then visited University of Wisconsin-Madison on May 26. Professor Rong met with several old friends over there and reminded him for the time he was a students at UW-Madison.

The Center for Heat Treating Excellence (CHTE) at WPI held its semi-annual meeting in May 23-24, 2006 to review the progress of sponsored projects and plan for next year research activities. Professor Rong, Dr. Zhang, Radha, and Amarjit attended the meeting and reported their research progress of the development of CHT-q/t software tool, as well as the applications of CHT-bf and CHT-cf. They discussed with the focus group and met many friends from difference companies.

Professor Rong, Professor Li, and Ted made a trip to MI and OH. Professor Rong visited GM Powertrain, Chrysler Tech Center, and Ford Tech Center for R&D update in US automotive industry and technical discussion. Professor Rong also visited Kettering university where Ted was doing research project. They had a meeting with Professor Lucy King, the collabolator of the project at Kettering, for technical discussion. Professor Rong and Professor Li met with President Tao Zhan of Sandong University, China, and Vice President Jingsong Wang of Tsinghua University, China, who were attending a University President Forum at University of Michigan, where Professor Li was visiting for two days. Professor Li and Ted also visited an Industrial Advisory Board Meeting of NSF I/UCRC for Intelligent Maintenance Systems at GM Tech Center. Finally all of them visited Ohio State University on the way back. They met Professor Taylan Altan and his visiting scholar from Shandong University, Zhongqiu Wang, at the Engineering Research Center for Net Shape Manufacturing. The trip was very productive.

Professor Rong attended the Technology Forum organized by Next Generation Manufacturing Technology Initiative (NGMTI), held at Andover, MA, from May 8 - 10, 2006. Professionals from Government, Industry, and Academia got together to share their vision of global manufacturing and the solutions to US manufacturing industry.

On Saturday, May 6, 2006, a informal get-together was held at Professor Rong's house. About 20 CAM-Lab members, visitors and their families participated to celebrate the end of the school year. Particularly to celebrate the graduation of Yao (Amarjit's celebration will be a separate one and Iain was out of country). Also the exchange students (Wayne Tian, Popey Liu, Jim Liu, and April Li) from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) will leave WPI soon, plus welcoming the three new comers (Professor Jianfeng Li, Hua Li, and Dong Lu) recently joined CAM-Lab. Besides enjoying the food, several people demonstrated their special telence of performing music instrument and talk shown, as well as Kara-OK.

Dr. Rong and Professor Jianfeng Li visited University of Massachusetts at Amherst on Wednesday, May 3, 2006. Dr. Rong gave a siminar on Numercal Modeling and Simulation of Heat Treatment Processes. They visited the research laboratories in Mechanical Engineering Department..

Yao Zhou has been admitted to Columbia University at New York City for his Ph. D study in Mechanical Engineering. He was offerred a full Teaching Assistantship to support his study over there. Yao has been with us since January 2004 and worked on our DOE project on simulation and optimization of heat treatment processes of Aluminum castings, as well as his personal interest in optimization. He has brought a lot of fun and joy to us. Congratulations to him.

In the evening of Tuesday, May 2, 2006, there was a get together for people involved in MQP in China, including the nice WPI students going to China for MQP in June this year, a graduate student doing his independent study on Lean Manufacturing in China, four HUST exchange students, four WPI students who went to China last year, as well as special guests, including WPI Provost Simpson and Dean Li from Shandong University, China, as well as several new visiting scholars in CAM-Lab. All students and guests enjoyed BBQ cookout and discussion on China experience.

Amarjit Singh and Yao Zhou successfully defended their M.S. theses respectively on Monday, May 1, 2006. Amarjit's thesis is on Development of Computer-aided Heat Treatment Planning System for Quenching and Tempering (CHT-q/t) and Industrial Application of CHT-bf and CHT-cf . Yao's thesis is on the Study of Genetic Algorithm Improvement and Application.

Iain Boyle successfully defended his Ph. D dissertation on Tueday, May 2, 2006, on CAFixD, A Case based Reasoning Fixture Desiogn Method.

Congratulations to all of them.

17 from 23 junior students who went to Hong Kong for IQP last C term, got together on Sunday, April 30, 2006 to enjoy the BBQ cookout and share their non-project pictures of their Hong Kong experience. The exchange students from China shared the food and happiness with them.

On Tuesday, April 25, 2006, a special meeting was held to present current Saint Gobain sponsored MQPs and othe related projects. The agenda is as follow,

1. Introduction and welcome the participants by Professor Rong

Professor Tryggvanson, Head of ME, Ms. Denise Radino, Director of Corporate Relations of WPI, as well as several Saint Gobain colleagues were participated the meeting, besides the presenting and involving students at WPI, totally about thirty people.

2. Three SG sponsored MQP presentations

Coolant Nozzle Design and Effectiveness Evaluation, by Daniel Baggett, Justin Cote, and Thomas LaRose

Feasibility of Recycling Grinding Chips, by Nicholas Raposa, Daniel Murphy, and Amber Fuchs

Cost Basis of Grinding Machine vs. Machining Machine, by Brian Berk, Ian Phillips, and Vincent Taormina

3. Presentations by exchange students from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Development of Mini-dynamometer, by Popeye Liu and Jim Liu, sponsored by Siant Gobain Abrasives Worcester

Lean Manufacturing Plant Layout Design, by Wayne Tian and April Li, sponsored by New Age Technologies, MA

4. MQP in China program, by Professor Rong

In 2005 summer, four WPI ME students went to HUST, China, teamed up with HUST students, to do their MQPs on special robot design.

D Term 2006, four HUST exchange ME senior students came to WPI for their senior projects, where one project was sponsored by Saint Gobain

In 2006 summer, nine WPI ME seniors will go to China, teaming up with twelve HUST students, to conducting five realworld projects, where one of the projects is sponsored by Saint Gobain Shanghai Operation.

5. Introduction and discussion on Saint Gobain MQP for 2006-2007 year. Four projects have been proposed and fourteen students have been shown interests in doing the projects.

6. Open discussion and dinner service.

On Thursday, April 20, 2006, Dr. Eraldo J. de Silva gave a seminar to MFE graduate students and faculty members as well as professionals from local companies, on Analysis of Grinding Strategies Applied to Automotive Crankshaft Manufacturing. Eraldo is currently a postdoc research fellow at our CAM-Lab, working with Saint Gobain Abrasives, Worcester, MA.

The proposal for a joint graduate degree program (Ph.D and MS) in Manufacturing Engineering between WPI and HUST (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China) has been approved by WPI faculty in the faculty meeting on Thursday, April 20, 2006. It will be signed by WPI and HUST administrations for implementation. The program will provide opportunity to the students from both WPI and HUST to study at the count party institution for half of the total work towards the final degree. more...

On Tuesday, April 18, 2006, the record high number of Manufacturing Engineering Senior projects (MQP) were presented, 12 among 69 Mechanical Engineering MQPs. Three of them were selected by five judges mainly from industry, to receive Manufaturing Engineering MQP awards. The award MQPs are,

"Manufacturing Optimization for Middleton Aerospace", by Pok Ki (Ice) Chung, Matthew Densemore, and Alexander Hecht, sponsored by Middleton Aerospace, Inc., and advised by Kevin Rong

"Coolant Nozzle Design and Effectiveness Evaluation", by Daniel Baggett, Justin Cote, and Thomas LaRose, sponsored by Saint Gobain Abrasives Worcester, and advised by Kevin Rong

"Implementation EcoStar Standards at Southern Container", by Justin Clark and Andrew Thayer, sponsored by Southern Container Company, and advised by Isa Bar-On

Besides, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Worcester Chapter gives the best MQP award to MFE students everyyear. This year, the SME MQP award went to,

"General Electric Cincinnati Service Shops Consolidation Feasibility Study", by Alison Geoffroy, John Lake, and Sabrina Wong, sponsored by GE Aircraft Engines, and advised by Sharon Johnson.

Congratulations to all of them.

Yihong (David) Yang came back from Caterpillar to work on his Ph. D dissertation. He gave a seminar at our CAM-Lab. He introduced his recent work on Manufacturing Planning Solution based on Teamceter. David worked at our CAM-Lab for three and half years and joined Caterpillar last year. It is his plan to finish his Ph. D dissertation this year. It is good to know that he is doing very well at Caterpillar.

Professor Jianfeng Li from Shandong University, China, gave a seminar on Tursday, April 13, 2006. He introduced the Research and Education at School of Mechanical Engineering at Shandong University, as well as recent research projects funded by Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and and future funding trend. Professor Li is the Dean of Mechanical Engineering at Shandong University and currently working at the CAM-Lab of WPI as visiting scholar for three months.

Radha will join Caterpillar as an intern student for one year starting from June 2006. This is a good opportunity for him to gain some real working experience in US. He has visited this company twice before and gave presentations introducing our research development of CHT-bf and CHT-cf. Congratulations to Radha.

Professor Jianfeng Li, Dean of Mechanical Engineering School at Shandong Univesrity, Jinan, China, and his Ph. D student Dong Lu joined us at CAM-Lab on April 5, 2006. Professor Li will stay with us for 4-5 months while Ms Lu will study at WPI for a year,as part of her Ph D study plan. Ms. Lu is working on Clamping Optimization as part of her dissertation in the area of Computer-aided Fixture Design. With their visit, it is a good opportunity to exchange information on technical and educational experience, and establish potential research collaboration. Welcome Professor Li and Ms. Lu.

Dr. Hua Li from Shanghai Marine University joined us at CAM-Lab. as a Research Associate on March 30, 2006. He graduated with Ph. D in ME from Dalian University of Science and technology, Dalian, China several years ago. He did computer graphics and CAD package development work for his dissertation. He will work in the area of Computer-aided Fixture Design.

MQP in China is formally launched on March 21, 2006. Nine WPI ME students signed up for five projects. They will travel to China from June 14 to August 6, working on the projects sponsored by local companies and institutions, with HUST students in mixed team. Potential NSF grant may support them for most expenses beyond the tuition. They will continue the good experience the four WPI students had last summer, and expect more exciting time ahead, with better preparation. More details can be found at, http://www.me.wpi.edu/Research/CAMLab/mqpinchina/index.htm

 

Professor Rong and Yao Zhou attended TMS Annual Conference at San Antonio, TX in March 12-15, 2006. Yao presented a paper on Heat Treatment Process Optimization. They met and had meetings with Mark Samonds from ESI, Professor Hal Brody from UConn, Professor John Morral from Ohio State, Dr. Qigui Wang from GM, and Professor Shoumei Xiong from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Four from six (two did not get visa) senior ME students from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) have come to WPI for their senior projects. Yuxuan (Popeye) Liu and Jiaxing (Jim) Liu are working on a project of developing a special dynamometer for precision grinding processes, sponsored by Saint Gobain Worcester, and Wei (Wayne) Tian and Bomiao Li are working on a shop layout design project based on the lean manufacturing principle, sponsored by New Age Technologiesy, Attleboro, MA.Ice Chung is helping the latter one too. The HUST students are also sitting in ES 3323 class to learn Advanced CAD technology, under WPI education system.

Derek Pepicelli got an award !

Industrial Heating magazine, in coorperation with the Metal Treating Institute (MTI), has awarded the eleventh annual Master Craftman Award to a CHTE member company, American Heat Treating. Associated with this award is an education scholarship in Materials Science or Heat Treatment, which is given to Derek Pepicelli, a Mechanical Engineering undergraduate student who is doing his work study at our Lab. Derek is working on the establishment of a materials database of Temperature Time Transformation (TTT)graphs for the development of CHT-q/t. Congratulations to Derek.

Dr. Rong spent eight weeks in Hong Kong for IQP (junior projects) advising. He and Professor Karen Lemone from CS advised 24 students for six projects, sponsored by Hong Kong Civic Exchange and Caritas Adult and Higher Education Service. The project reports can be accessed through WPI website, http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/E-project/. They are,

1.Harbor Reclamation: Central and Wanchai Districts, by Christopher Doody, Daniel Kim, Alex Lee, and Andres Sucre

2. Urban Planning and Development of Kai Tak Area of Hong Kong, by Wai-Mun Leung, Michael P. Miller, Michael A. Pierce, and Irene Tsai

3. Assessing Urban Development on the Reclaimed Land in Sheung Wan, by Kathrin Kurek, Joseph Labenski, and David Moquin

4. Teenagerrs, Technology and Education at Caritas Charles Vath College, by Trisha Josephs, Larry Sartoris, Adam Sheehan, Matthew Zimmermann

5. Evaluating Sub-degree Programs at Caritas Francis Hsu College, by Ivan LaBruna, Elizabeth Marcks, Steven Starowicz, and Richard, McGuinness

6. A Study of Distance Education at Hong Kong Universities, by Franklin Angulo, Robert Darneille, Ryan McLaughlin, and Eric Wong

During his staying in Hong Kong, Dr. Rong participated the International Cconference on Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM), and presented a paper on Technology Hub for Supplier-based Manufacturing. He also visited many major universities in Hong Kong, including, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, City University of Hong Kong, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, as well as University of Macau.

During this period of time, Dr. Rong made two trips to the main land of China, basically for the preparation of MQP in China in summer 2006. He visited Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in Wuhan, as well as Tongjin Hospital in HUST, Saint Gobain Shanghai Operations in Shanghai, American Industrial Partners China operation at Wuxi, as well as Shanghai Jiaotong University and Zhejiang University. Five real world projects have been identified for both WPI and HUST students to perform in summer 2006. Dr. Rong also visited several companies in Shenzhen and Huizhou, and met many former class mate, students, and friends. Many of them have not met each other for twenty years.

Dr. Rong's brother and his family joined him during the Chinese New yesr time for three days. This was the first time for Dr. Rong to celebrate this event in China in last twenty years.

Weisheng (Darren) Qiu joined GE Corporate Research Center at Niskayuna, NY for an internship fron January 2006. Congratulations to him.

Professor Rong will be in Hong Kong advising WPI junior projects (IQPs ). Twenty four WPI junior students will work on six projects about Hong Kong Harbor development and environment problems and secondary education problems as well as distance learning problems. The projects sponsors include non-government organizations such as Civic Exchange and Caritas as well as Hong Kong Universities. Professor Karen Lemone and Professor Rong will be co-advising the students.

 

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