Dr. Zhu has provided the services to the department, the college, the university and the research and education community:

Membership and leadership roles in committees, councils, etc.

• Faculty Senator (2009 - 2011);
• Graduate Advisor of Industrial Engineering Graduate Program, Lamar University: advise current graduate students and transfer students, admit new student applicants, communicate with prospective students, resolve student conflicts, host student comprehensive exams, prepare documents for student policy and welcome packet, prepare doctoral exam policy
• SACS coordinator for the graduate programs in the College of Engineering, including Master of Engineering (ME) program, Master of Engineering Science (MES) program and Doctor of Engineering (DE) program.
• Member - Undergraduate Research Advisory Committee (2014 - present);
• Member - University Research Council (2012 - 2015);
• Host Industrial Engineering Open House to high school students: every semester since Fall 2005;
• Member – Graduate Faculty of Lamar University (2005 – Present)
• Member – HEAF Funding Allocation Committee (2006 – Present)
• Graduate Industrial Engineering Advisor (2006 – Present)
• Manufacturing Laboratory supervisor (2005 – Present)
• Faculty Member, Industrial Engineering Department Advisory Council (IEDAC) (2006 – Present)
• Member, Industrial Technology Program Advisory Council (ITPAC) (2006 – Present)
• Member – Committee for the Computer Replacement Plan for Cherry 1000 Computer Lab
• Chair of Ad-hoc committee of IE Student Publication Policy

• Give Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality seminar to K-12 teachers in Texas ESC5 Mega Mania Conference, Nov 2016;
• Give 3D printing modeling seminar to K-12 teachers in Texas ESC5 Mega Mania Conference, Oct 2015;
• Give 3D printing modeling seminar to 40 K-12 teachers, Lamar University, July 2015;;
• Give 3D printing modeling seminar to 40 K-12 students, Lamar University, July 2015;;
• Give 3D printing demo to 50 visiting K-12 teachers, Lamar University, January 2015;;
• Give 3D printing presentation to two batches of visiting K-12 students, Lamar University, November 2014;
• Give mobile app presentation to visiting K-12 students, Lamar University, November 2013;
• Give haptics and robotics presentation to K-12 students at Lamar University Mathematics summer camp, June 2010;
• Give haptics and robotics presentation to K-8 students from the M.L.K. middle school at Beaumont, Texas, April 2007 and May 2008;
• Organized a golf ball tournament with ISA (Instrumentation, System and Automation Society) – Beaumont Section, and raised $5,000 for Lamar Industrial Automation and Process Control Initiative, May 2007;
• Visited Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and presented Haptic Technology to math teachers as a possible assistive technology;
• Book reviewer: The Handbook of Technology Management (2008);
• Journal reviewer: International Journal of Production Research (IJPR); Journal of Computer-Aided Design (JCAD); Transaction of the ASME: Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE); Journal of Automation, Mobile Robotics & Intelligent System (JAMRIS);
• Conference paper reviewer: ACM SIGEVO Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Summit 2009 Conference; ASME IMECE 2008 Conference; WorldHaptics 2007 Conference; ASME MSEC 2007 Conference; ASME MSEC 2006 Conference; ASME Design for Manufacturing 2004 Conference; ASME IMECE 2004 Conference;
• Symposium Organizer for ASME Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference 2009, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana;
• Session chair/co-chair: ASME IMECE 2008 Conference; SME/NAMRI 2007 Conference; ASME MSEC 2006;
• Ph.D. dissertation adjudication for Andhra University, Visakhapatrnam, India, 2008;
• I provided and delivered a presentation to local professionals on the haptics technology at the Southeast Texas Seminar which was sponsored by the Instrumentation, System and Automation Society – Beaumont Section in September 2005;
• Provide consulting services to Yantric Inc., a medical simulation company at Boston; and mySmartSim Inc. at Saratoga Springs, NY;
• NSF Panels: 12 times (2008~present);
• NIH Panels: 5 times (2012~present);
• Member of Technical Committee on Haptics;

Maintained by Weihang Zhu, Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, Lamar University

Last Updated by Weihang Zhu on Dec 15, 2016