Stephen Lu

Founding Professor of Xinrui School

Academician of American Academy of Mechanical Engineering

Introduction

Dr. Stephen C-Y. Lu is the permanent holder of the David Packard Endowed Chair Professor in Manufacturing Engineering at the School of Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). He directs the Viterbi iPodia (ViP) global education Programthe Master of Science in Product Development Engineering program at USC. He is the founding director of the IMPACT (Improving Productivity via Advanced Collaboration Technology) research laboratory at USC, where new theoriestechnologies are being developed to support the Engineering Collaboration via Negotiation (ECN) paradigm. Before joining USC in 1995, he was a tenured, full professor of Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering,Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC),the founding director of UIUCs Knowledge-based Engineering Systems Research Laboratory. He was a visiting professor at MIT,the Technical University, Berlin, Germany, in 1993, at Shanghai Jiao-tong University in 2001,at Korea Advanced Institute of ScenceTechnology, Daejeon, Korea, 2007. Dr. Lu was the Chairman of the Technical Advisory Committee of the SAVE/JAST (Joint Advanced Striking Technology) program at the Lockheed-Martin Company that designed developed the next generation fighter aircrafts for the U.S. military. Dr. Lu has published over 300 technical papers, bookschapters, served on many journals editorial boardsas a keynote speaker in the fields of designmanufacturing. He is the Chief Editor of the International Journal of Collaborative Engineering. For his scientifictechnical contributions, he has received prestigious recognitions from many nationalinternational organizations, including two Presidential (USAGermany) awards, six honorary professorships,one founding Dean honor from foreign universities. Dr. Lus current researchteaching interests are in design thinking, collaborative engineering,technological innovation.

Education

• 1982, Masters Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University
• 1978, Bachelors Degree, Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University
• Doctoral Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University

Research field

(1) system design thinking

(2) collaborative engineering

(3) global innovation

(4) design theorymethodology

(5) complexity in design of technical systems

(6) new product development