Yuan-Shin Lee
Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Phone: 919.515.7195
- Email: yslee@ncsu.edu
- Office: Fitts-Woolard Hall 4163
Yuan-Shin Lee serves as the Director of the Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center (SMIC) at NC State University, funded by the Department of Energy (DOE). The SMIC Center is to link manufacturers, industrial technology vendors, systems integrators and equipment providers with academia, demonstrating and driving research and innovation that scales to all of US manufacturing. Lee has been a professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at NC State University since 1995. He is a registered professional engineer (PE) in mechanical engineering. He is also a certified manufacturing engineer in system integration and control.
Lee earlier served as a Department Editor for IIE Transactions and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Computer-Aided Design and Applications, the International Journal of Mechtronics and Manufacturing Systems (IJMMS), the Journal of Manufacturing Systems (JMS), the International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IJISE), and the Journal of Computer-Aided Drafting, Design and Manufacturing (CADDM).
Lee is also an FAA-certified private pilot. He flies single-engine land-based airplanes.
Research Interests
Lee’s research interests include bio-medical manufacturing, Computational geometry for bio-medical design and manufacturing, CAD/CAM/CAE integration, 5-axis sculptured surface NC machining, computer graphics, Rapid prototyping, high-speed Machining, computational intelligence, product realization, computer-aided process planning and tool selection and optimization.
Education
| Degree | Program | School | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Doctor of Philosophy | Purdue University | 1993 |
| MSIE | Master of Science in Industrial Engineering | Purdue University | 1990 |
| BSME | Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering | National Taiwan University | 1984 |
Honors and Awards
- Career/PYI Award, National Science Foundation
- 2012 | CAD Best Paper Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 2008 | Fellow Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 2007 | Fellow Award, Institute of Industrial Engineers
- 2006 | Technical Innovation Award, Institute of Industrial Engineers
- 2001 | ALCOA Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award
- 2000 | Alumni Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award, NC State University
- 1999 | C.A. Anderson Outstanding Faculty Award
- 1998 | Norman Dudley Award from the Taylor & Francis Journals
- 1997 | Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer, SME
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Publications
- A Novel Analytical Explicit Method to Calculate Formed Wheel and Tooth Flank of Involute Gears in Profile Grinding Process
- Guo, Q., Zhao, W., Shu, C., Lee, Y.-S., Sun, Y., Ren, L., & Song, M. (2023), JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME, 145(6). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4056925
- Assessment of glass-to-glass welding by USP lasers with machine learning approaches
- Ho, Y.-M., Lee, C.-H., Ho, J.-R., Lin, C.-K., Tung, P.-C., & Lee, Y.-S. (2023, August), MANUFACTURING LETTERS, Vol. 35, pp. 160–165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mfglet.2023.08.003
- Design and 3D printing of waveguide-based ultrasonic longitudinal-torsional transducers for medical needle insertion
- Wang, Y., Cai, Y., Gong, H., & Lee, Y.-S. (2022), SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL, 344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2022.113706
- Design and Development of Longitudinal and Torsional Ultrasonic Vibration-assisted Needle Insertion Device for Medical Applications
- Wang, Y., Cai, Y., & Lee, Y.-S. (2021), Computer-Aided Design and Applications, 19(4), 797–811. https://doi.org/10.14733/cadaps.2022.797-811
- Study on the stability for non-uniform helix angle tools in the milling process
- Guo, Q., Zhang, M.-Y., Lee, Y.-S., Yang, Z.-B., Jiang, Y., & Feng, C.-H. (2020), JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL AND PRODUCTION ENGINEERING, 37(8), 387–393. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681015.2020.1802621
- A Gouge-Free Tool Axis Reorientation Method for Kinematics Compliant Avoidance of Singularity in 5-Axis Machining
- Sun, S., Sun, Y., & Lee, Y.-S. (2019), JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME, 141(5). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4043266
- A Method of Generating Spiral Tool Path for Direct Three-Axis Computer Numerical Control Machining of Measured Cloud of Point
- Xu, J., Xu, L., Sun, Y., Lee, Y.-S., & Zhao, J. (2019), JOURNAL OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING, 19(4). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4043532
- Jerk-limited feedrate scheduling and optimization for five-axis machining using new piecewise linear programming approach
- Sun, Y. W., Chen, M. S., Jia, J. J., Lee, Y.-S., & Guo, D. M. (2019), SCIENCE CHINA-TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 62(7), 1067–1081. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-018-9404-9
- Iso-Planar Feed Vector-Fields-Based Streamline Tool Path Generation for Five-Axis Compound Surface Machining With Torus-End Cutters
- Sun, S., Sun, Y., Xu, J., & Lee, Y.-S. (2018), JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME, 140(7). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4039653
- Parametric study for asymmetric flexure hinge design for tissue cutting
- Jones, J. A., Lee, Y.-S., & Moore, J. Z. (2019), PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART B-JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MANUFACTURE, 233(4), 1302–1309. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954405418774587
Grants
- Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII)
- Robotic Pick-Place Operation for Automated Clothing Assembly
- Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII)
- Engineering a Novel 3D Metal Printed Orthodontic System for Lingual Attachment-enabled Clear Aligner Therapy
- EAGER/Cybermanufacturing: Just-In-Time Compilation of Product Manufacturing Data to Machine Instructions via an Industrial Machine Operating System
- Collaborative Research: Investigation of Vibratory Cutting Mechanics with Novel Compliant Needle Geometry for Precision Needle Positioning Machine
- Streaming In-Process Machine Data from a Mill-Turn Machining Operation to the Digital Manufacturing Commons
- HCC-Medium: Haptic Simulation Design for Motor Rehabilitation and Skill Training
- EAGER: Engineering for Regenerative Medicine
- Regenerative Medicine Manufacturing Systems
