Focus speaker (Innovation)
Prof. Andrew Yeh-Ching NEE
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NUS Profile A.Y.C. Nee is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore since 1989. He received his PhD (1973) and DEng (2002) from University of Manchester and UMIST respectively. His research interest is in CAD of tool, die, fixture and process planning, augmented reality applications in manufacturing, sustainable manufacturing. He is Fellow of CIRP (International Academy for Production Engineering) and Fellow SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers), both elected in 1990, and Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore. He served as the President of CIRP in 2012, being the first ethnic Chinese in the world to be appointed as CIRP President since 1952. He is a recipient of SME’s Gold Medal in 2014, in recognition of his achievement in the field of manufacturing engineering research and education. He has published over 500 refereed journal and conference papers and 18 edited and authored books. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (Springer), Associated Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Manufacturing (Shanghai University and Springer) as well as serving on the editorial boards of some 20 international journals. He is honorary professor of HUST, Shanghai University, BUAA, NUAA and Tianjin University. He is Chairman of Manusoft Technology Pte Ltd, an NUS spin-off company which specializes in computer-aided plastic injection mold design. It was set up in 1997 and has since sold 2000 copies of the software IMOLD® worldwide. Abstract Innovation in Engineering Innovation, invention, discovery are the words often used to describe research achievements. Are these terms interchangeable and mean the same? To a young researcher, the ability to publish good papers in top-tier journals appears to be the only thing in their mind. Have they missed out something while focusing on publishing papers? This talk takes a candid look at the desirable products of research, and shares some of the views of the speaker from his past experience of conducting research and spinning off research outcome. |