Awards

Professor Hu elected Fellow, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2018.
Professor Freiheit featured in Member Spotlight, Newsletter, Society of Engineering Management, Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers, https://www.iise.org/Details.aspx?id=46378, January 2018.
Professor Hu elected a foreign member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, 2017.
Best Paper Award, ASME Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC), June 2017. Chenhui Shao, Jionghua (Judy) Jin and S. Jack Hu, “Dynamic sampling design for characterizing spatiotemporal processes in manufacturing.
ASME Blackall Machine Tool & Gage Award, 2017. H. Nguyen, H. Wang, B. Tai, J. Ren, S.J. Hu and A. Shih, “High Definition Metrology Enabled Surface Variation Control by Cutting Load Rebalancing.” ASME J. Manufacturing Science and Engineering.
Professor Hu receives SME Gold Medal, 2017. In recognition of intellectual leadership in inventing novel algorithms and practical methodologies for multi-station assembly systems and their implementation in industry, as well as his influential service to government and the manufacturing profession.
Professor Hu elected a member of the U. S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), 2015. According to the NAE, election to NAE membership is one of the highest professional honors accorded an engineer. Members have distinguished themselves in business and academic management, in technical positions, as university faculty, and as leaders in government and private engineering organizations.
Professor Freiheit recipient of the 2015 Schulich School of Engineering Service Excellence Award for the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.
Professor Freiheit’s journal paper featured by ASME Journal of Mechanical Design in its companion website, http://www.asmejmd.org/featured-articles, in 2014
Professor Hu appointed as founding editor of Procedia Manufacturing
Since 2008, Prof. Hu has been serving as editor in chief of Journal of Manufacturing Systems. During this time, he worked with SME and Elsevier in moving from paper based review and publication into on-line review and publication. JMS has an impact factor of 1.847. After completing a six year term as editor in chief of JMS, Prof. Hu is appointed editor in chief for Procedia Manufacturing, which is an open access journal focusing entirely on publishing high quality conference proceedings. Procedia Manufacturing enables fast dissemination of its content so that conference delegates can publish their papers in a dedicated online issue on Sciverse ScienceDirect
Grace Guo receives best paper award at ICFDM, 2014. Grace Guo presented a paper on “Within-Cycle Profile Monitoring for Real Time Defect Prevention” at the International Conference on the Frontiers of Design and Manufacturing (ICFDM 2014) in Nanjing, China and received the best paper award. The paper was co-authored with Prof. Judy Jin and Prof. S. Jack Hu. Congratulations, Grace.
Professor Hu receives the 2014 SME/NAMRI S. M. Wu Research Implementation Award. This award recognizes outstanding original research presented as a paper at the annual North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC) and subsequently, upon implementation, had a significant commercial and/or societal impact. Prof. Hu was recognized for his Principal Component Analysis based method for systematically identifying sources of quality variation in assembly systems.
ASME William T. Ennor Manufacturing Technology Award, 2012. The award recognizes an individual or a team of individuals for developing or contributing significantly to an innovative manufacturing technology, the implementation of which has resulted in substantial economic and/or societal benefits. Prof. Hu was recognized for “developing innovative methods for predicting and diagnosing quality variation in multi-stage assembly systems and methods for designing manufacturing system configurations, and their implementation in automotive assembly and battery manufacturing.”
Fellow of International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP), 2012.
Best Paper Award, 2012, B. Tai, H. Wang, H. Nguyen, S. J. Hu, and A. Shih
“Surface Variation reduction for Face Milling Based on High Definition Metrology”, ASME Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC), June.
Best Paper Award, 2012, Sha Li, Yhu-Tin Lin, Hui Wang, Sheng Yang, Ci Chen, S. Jack Hu, Jeffrey Abell. “An Assembly System Configurator for Automotive Battery Packs”. International Conference in Frontiers of Design and Manufacturing, June, Chongqing, China.
J. Reid and Polly Anderson Professor of Manufacturing Technology, The University of Michigan, September 2011
Selected as a fellow of Academic Leadership Programs, 2010. (organized by Council for Institutional Collaboration, e.g., Big 10 + universities in the US)
Best Paper Award, 2010. S. Suriano, H. Wang, S. J. Hu. “Sequential Monitoring of Surface Spatial Variation in Automotive Machining Processes based on High Definition Metrology,” 9th International Conference on Frontiers of Design and Manufacturing, Changsha, China, July. Also recognized for outstanding contributions to the conference series.
G. Lawton and Louise G. Johnson Professor of Engineering, The University of Michigan, January 2009 – August 2011
Professor Freiheit receives Best Paper – Lean Manufacturing Track, IIE Annual Conference, 2009
Professor Freiheit receives Canada Foundation for Innovation – New Opportunities Fund Award
General Motors Technical Education Program, “Partnership Excellence Award”, March, 2008
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Jan. 2008 – June 2014
College of Engineering Research Excellence Award, The University of Michigan, 2006
Robert Caddell Faculty/Graduate Student Team Award (with Ph.D. student Guosong Lin), Sept. 2005. University of Michigan
Outstanding Overseas Young Scientist Award, Chinese National Natural Science Foundation, 2003
Changjiang Professorship, Tianjin University, China, 2003
Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, March 2003
Mechanical Engineering Teaching Award, 2001, 2003, University of Michigan
Best Paper Award, 2001. J. Camelio, D. Ceglarek, S. J. Hu. “Modeling Variation Propagation in Multi-Station Assembly Systems With Compliant Parts”, ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference/6th Design for Manufacturing Conference, September.
Faculty Achievement Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan, 2000
Recognized by Society of Automotive Engineers International for Developing the Body-in-White Certificate Program with General Motors, Feb. 1999
Robert Caddell Faculty Research Achievement Award, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, The University of Michigan, 1997
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, USA, 1996
Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1993