Dr.Ren-Jye Yang Senior Technical Leader, ASME Fellow Ford Motor Company ABSTRACT:Automotive industry today is challenged by numerous complex and often conflicting constraints and requirements such as shorter cycle time, lower theweight and cost, and stringent regulations and better performances in durability, NVH, safety, quality, reliability, etc. To satisfy these requirements, automobile manufacturers are increasingly relying on Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) and the use of more formal and structured approaches for product development. Numerical optimization is a systematic tool for considering all disciplines and finds a compromise solution. In addition, as most CAE simulations are computation intensive, special optimization methods and processes are often required. This presentation will address recent applications and development of design optimization at Ford. Particularly, it will focus on Multi-disciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) and nonlinear topology optimization for crashworthiness. 时间：2011年7月4日10：00 地点：1号综合实验楼602 主办单位：工业装备结构分析国家重点实验室，工程力学系 Dr. Ren-Jye Yang Senior Technical Leader, Ford Motor Company(ryang@ford.com) Dr. Ren-Jye Yang received his B.S. in Civil Engineering and M.S. degree in Engineering Mechanics from the National Taiwan University at Taipei, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1984. He is currently a Senior Technical Leader in the Passive Safety Department at Ford Research & Advanced Engineering, responsible for the development of Safety Optimization and Robustness and CAE Model Validation Methods. Before he joined Ford in 1988, Dr. Yang was a Staff Research Engineer in the Engineering Mechanics Department at GM Research Laboratories. His research areas of interest include: Design Optimization, CAE, Model Verification and Validation, Reliability-Based Design Optimization, HPC, Probabilistic and Statistic Methods, etc. Dr. Yang has received numerous awards, including three Henry Ford Technology Awards, which is the highest technical award at Ford. Dr. Yang has published more than 50 referred Journal papers. He is a Senior Advisor and associate editor of the Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization Journal and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Reliability and Safety, SAE International Journal of Materials and Manufacturing, and International Journal of Vehicle Structures & Systems. He is an ASME fellow and is a committee member of the ASME V&V 10. In 2004, Dr. Yang was elected as an Industry Advisor for the ASME Design Automation Executive Committee. He is the recipient of 2005 ASME Design Automation Award, 2010 SAE Forest R. McFarland Award, and 2011SAE Forest R. McFarland Award. Dr. Yang has also served on the University/Industry Advisory Board for a number of Universities, e.g., UM ARC External Advisory Board. He is currently a guest professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. 杨仁杰博士在国际著名期刊和会议发表大量论文，并获得包括亨利福特技术奖3次，ASME设计自动化奖1次以及亨利福特技术进步革新奖1次等奖项十余次。杨仁杰博士是美国机械工程师协会（ASME）的会员，ASME设计自动化执委会工业顾问，担任着包括《结构和多学科优化》在内的三个国际著名杂志的编委和高级顾问。 |
