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IOE/ME team awarded Best Paper from ASME

by Rod Capps
Industrial and Operations Engineering
June 29, 2017
Chenhui Shao, Jionghua (Judy) Jin and S. Jack Hu were awarded the best paper award from the Manufacturing Engineering Division of ASME for their paper, "Dynamic sampling design for characterizing spatiotemporal processes in manufacturing"| Short Read
EnlargePortraits of S.Jack Hu, Jionghua (Judy) Jin. Photos by Joseph Xu, College of Engineering
IMAGE:  Portraits of S.Jack Hu, Jionghua (Judy) Jin. Photos by Joseph Xu, College of Engineering

The team was awarded at the 2017 Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference of the American Society of Manufacturing Engineering (ASME).

 

Please join us in congratulating them on this award!

Portraits of S.Jack Hu, Jionghua (Judy) Jin. Photos by Joseph Xu, College of Engineering
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