Maria Yang
Maria C. Yang is an American mechanical engineer whose research concerns engineering design.[1] She is Gail E. Kendall (1978) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Associate Dean of Engineering at MIT,[2] faculty academic director of the MIT D-Lab, and associate director of the MIT Morningside Academy for Design.[3]
Education and career
Yang is originally from West Lafayette, Indiana, where her father, Chinese-American aerospace engineer Henry T. Yang, worked as a professor at Purdue University. She majored in mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[1] graduating in 1991.[2] Next, she went to Stanford University for graduate study in mechanical engineering, supported by a NSF Graduate Fellowship.[4] She earned a master's degree in 1994 and completing her Ph.D. in 2000.[2] Her dissertation, Retrieval of informal information from design: A thesaurus based approach, was supervised by Mark Cutkosky.[5]
After postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology, industrial work as director of design at Reactivity, Inc.,[6] and a faculty position as assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Southern California,[6][4] Yang moved to MIT in 2007,[2] as Robert N. Noyce Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems.[6]
Recognition
Yang won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2006.[4] She was elected as an ASME Fellow by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2013.[7] She won the Fred Merryfield Design Award of the American Society for Engineering Education in 2014.[8]
References
- ^ a b Chu, Jennifer (December 8, 2015), "An Eye for Design: Maria Yang helps product designers hone the creative process", In the news, MIT MECHE, retrieved 2023-02-14
- ^ a b c d "Associate Dean Maria Yang", Leadership, MIT School of Engineering, retrieved 2023-02-14
- ^ "Maria Yang", About people, MIT Morningside Academy for Design, retrieved 2023-02-14
- ^ a b c Ainsworth, Diane (March 1, 2006), "NSF Bestows Honor on Engineering Professor", USC News, University of Southern California, retrieved 2023-02-14
- ^ "Maria C. Yang, Ph.D.", Physics Tree, retrieved 2023-02-14
- ^ a b c Bio sketch for Maria C. Yang, 2010, retrieved 2023-02-14
- ^ All fellows (PDF), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2022, retrieved 2023-02-14
- ^ "Fred Merryfield Design Award", 2014 ASEE National and Society Awards, ASEE Today, ASEE, September 2014
External links
- Faculty home page
- Maria Yang publications indexed by Google Scholar
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