{"75941":{"#nid":"75941","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ben Wang named the Eugene C. Gwaltney Jr. Chair in Manufacturing Systems  in the College of Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr.\nBen Wang has been named to serve as the Eugene C. Gwaltney Jr. Chair in\nManufacturing Systems in the College of Engineering.\u0026nbsp; Dr. Wang joined the\nStewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) faculty on January\n1, 2012. \u0026nbsp;In addition his role on the ISyE faculty, Dr. Wang will serve half time as the new Executive Director of Georgia\nTech\u2019s Manufacturing Research Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe\nstrength of an institution lies in its ability to recruit great educators and\nleaders,\u201d said Gary May, Dean of the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech.\n\u201cBen is an outstanding scholar and a trailblazer in his field, and\nmanufacturing leadership is a critical issue for national competitiveness.\n\u0026nbsp;I am excited about the great opportunities that I see arising from his\nefforts. We are grateful to the Gwaltney family for their generous support\nwhich allowed us the opportunity to bring Ben to Georgia Tech where he can\ncontinue his important work.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWang\ncomes to Georgia Tech from Florida State University where he served as director\nof the High-Performance Materials Institute. He also served as an assistant\nvice president for research in engineering and held the following three\ndistinguished professorships: the Simon Ostrach Professor of Engineering, the\nFSU Distinguished Research Professor, and the U.S. Department of Energy Samuel\nP. Massie Chair of Excellence. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial\nEngineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and the Society for the Advancement of Material and Processing Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOver\nthe last 30 years, I have worked in various positions related to manufacturing\n\u2014 from operations and planning to strategy and policy,\u201d Wang said. \u201cThe\napproach we will take to reaching the center\u2019s goal of becoming the world\u2019s\nmanufacturing thought leader and trendsetter is to create an innovation\necosystem. We will add substantial commercial, economic and societal values to\nTech professors\u2019 inventions to license the technology to a company, create a\njoint venture or form a new spin-off company.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWang\u2019s\nprimary research interest is in applying emerging technologies to improve\nmanufacturing competitiveness.\u0026nbsp; He specializes in process development for\naffordable composite materials. Wang also does research in nanotechnology and\nis widely acknowledged as a pioneer in the growing field of nanomaterials\nscience. His main area of research involves a material known as \u201cbuckypaper,\u201d\nwhich has shown promise in a variety of applications, including the development\nof aerospace structures, the production of effective lightweight body armor and\narmored vehicles, improvements in energy and power efficiency, enhancements in\nthermal management of engineering systems, and construction of the\nnext-generation of computer displays.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWang\nearned his bachelor\u2019s in industrial engineering from Tunghai University in\nTaiwan, and his master\u2019s in industrial engineering and Ph.D.\nfrom Pennsylvania State University.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr.\nBen Wang has been named to serve as the Eugene C. Gwaltney Jr. Chair in\nManufacturing Systems in the College of Engineering.\u0026nbsp; Dr. Wang joined the ISyE faculty on January\n1, 2012, and will serve half time as the new Executive Director of Georgia\nTech\u2019s Manufacturing Research Center.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2012-01-04 17:09:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:53","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-01-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-01-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"70794":{"id":"70794","type":"image","title":"Ben Wang","body":null,"created":"1449177314","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:14","changed":"1475894623","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:43","alt":"Ben Wang","file":{"fid":"193458","name":"meyer_20110630_1750.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/meyer_20110630_1750_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/meyer_20110630_1750_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":6717749,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/meyer_20110630_1750_0.jpg?itok=GVCd5qjo"}}},"media_ids":["70794"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13523","name":"Ben Wang"},{"id":"594","name":"college of engineering"},{"id":"16471","name":"Eugene C. 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