Meng-Sang Chew
Phone: (610) 758-4215
Fax: (610) 758-6224

Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Appointed to Lehigh Faculty: 1992

Education:
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineer, Columbia University, 1980
M.Ph. Mechanical Engineer, Columbia University, 1979
M.S. Mechanical Engineer, Columbia University, 1977
B.S. Mechanical Engineer, Columbia University, 1977

Related experience - teaching, industrial, etc.:
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Old Dominion University, 1986-92
Senior Research Engineer, General Motors Research Labs, 1980-1986

Research activities, consulting, patents, etc.
Research in the area of conceptual design of mechanisms and advanced machinery, such as novel car engines, new manual and automatic car transmissions, deployable space structures, ground-based microgravity suspension systems for space structures, advanced worm gear design, high-speed chain drives and high-speed cam-follower mechanisms, suspension systems using band mechanisms, robotics, artificial intelligence (AI) for robot hand and variable-stroke engine design; neural networks for airplane fuel tanks, as well as learning control and adaptive control methodologies for intelligent electromechanical machinery.

Technical and forensic engineering consultant - several companies.
Five patents (1982,1982,1983, 1989, 1993)

State registered Professional Engineer:  Virginia

Scientific and professional societies of which a member:
ASME
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Pi Tau Sigma
Tau Beta Pi

Honors and awards:
A.D. Welliver Faculty Summer Fellowship by the Boeing Company, 1995
AIAA Aerospace Design Engineering Award, 1995
ASME Best Paper Award, 1982
ASME Best Paper Award, 1984
Proctor and Gamble Best Paper Award, 1990
ASME Curriculum Innovation Award, 1996
NASA Certificates of Recognition (4), 1990, 1991, 1991, 1999
Associate Fellow of AIAA, 1996

Recent Ph.D. and M.S. Thesis and/or Projects Supervised:
(contact the department for a copy)
2004 - Khaled Al-Ghanem, Ph.D. Thesis, "Learning Control and Repetitive Control of Flexible Planar Variable Input Speed Linkages Mechanisms," (.pdf 1.11 MB)
2002 - WaiYip Alex AuYeung, M.S. Thesis, "Four-Bar Linkage Synthesis Using Fuzzy Logic"
2002 - Nonglak Phetkong-Steele, Ph.D. Thesis, "Learning Control and Repetitive Control of a High-Speed, Nonlinear Cam Follower System"
2001 - Theeraphong Wongratanaphisan, Ph.D. Thesis, "Application of Gravity Compensation to End-Point Control of Flexible Structure Mounted Manipulators Theory and Experiment"