Professor Mitchell M. Tseng
(PhD, Purdue, 1975)

Chair Professor of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management Department

Director, Advanced Manufacturing Institute

Director, Zhejiang Advanced Manufacturing Institute

 

Profile

Prof. Tseng started his production engineering career in developing key enabling manufacturing technologies for IT industry. Some of them, including diamond machining for polygons in laser printers, are still widely used in industry. After serving in industry for two decades, he joined HKUST in 1993 as the founding department head of Industrial Engineering. He also held academic positions as a member of faculty in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

He is an elected fellow of the International Academy of Production Engineers (CIRP), and ASME.  Professor Tseng is internationally known for his work in Mass Customization and Global Manufacturing. He was invited twice, 2003 and 2007, as Keynote Speaker for Manufuture Conference (http://www.manufuture.org/), the European Union Summit for Manufacturing professionals and policy makers. Professor Tseng has been serving as a co-chair of the International Mass Customization and Personalization Conferences (MCPC) since its inauguration in 2001.  In 2007, MCPC was held in Media Lab, MIT.  The research results have been brought directly to industries through a development arm in Zhejiang Advanced Manufacturing Institute of HKUST (http://www.zami.cn/). Sponsors of his research and consulting projects include AT & T, Astec-Emerson, Esquel, Honeywell, Lucent Technologies, Intel, SAP,  Rockwell International, Liz Claiborne, Motorola, Nokia, GAP, Ford Motor, Norvullus, Tecton, Synocus, Yueshen, OOCL, Novellus, Ove ARUP, HK Air Cargo Container Limited and others.

 

Professor Mitchell M. Tseng joined the HKUST faculty as the founding department head in 1993 after working in industry for almost two decades. He started his career in industry as a Manufacturing Engineer and progressed through several senior management positions; Manufacturing Technology Manager at Xerox, CIM Technology Manager, Group Manager in charge of Applied Intelligent Systems Group and US Area Engineering Manager for Systems Integration Services at Digital Equipment Corporation. He previously held faculty positions at University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He has given several short courses and consulting engagements on business process re-engineering, AI applications, technology introductions in manufacturing, and systems design. His B.S. degree is from National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan). He earned both his MS (1973) and PhD (1975) degrees in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.
 

Research Interests

1.        Mass customization and personalization (MCP) technology aims to provide products and services that best satisfy individual customer’s needs with near mass production efficiency. With the proximity of  “Factory of the World” and potential market in China, Hong Kong has a unique position to be the leader of high value added manufacturing by applying MCP. We have a number of successful projects of Mass Customization applicable to the areas of electronic products, appliances, apparel, construction and shoe industry.

 

2.      Systems Integration Technology includes global supply chain management, RFID technology, systems integration, concurrent engineering and sustainable production & collaboration. By leveraging on the modern information technology to enhance the effectiveness of global collaboration, the project has pulled together computer sciences, companies, supply chain management and product development professionals to work together.

 

3.      Design technology includes design theory, product development, manufacturing system design, modeling and simulation for business process engineering, computer-aided design, human modeling, finite element modeling, reliability modeling of electronics packaging, design knowledge management systems, process design, and CAD for quality and manufacturability.

 

4.      Manufacturing automation technology include rapid prototyping, tooling, manufacturing process control, grinding technology, multi-fingered robotic hands and manipulation, special-purpose robots, robotic vision and sensing systems, fuzzy control systems, non-linear and robust control techniques for mechatronic applications, motor drive and control systems, transportation automation, and industrial motion control applications.

 


 

Research Activities


 

Teaching

  • IEEM515: Product Development Management
  • IEEM534: Business Process Engineering
  • IEEM537: Project Management
  • IEEM539: Service Engineering and Management
  • IEEM550: Global Manufacturing
  • IEEM300 Industrial Applications of Electronic Commerce
  • IEEM610C: Research in Modern Manufacturing Systems
  • ENGG311: Engineers in Society


 

Contact Informationemail
 

Phone: 

 (852) 2358-7091

FAX: 

 (852) 2358-0062

E-mail: 

 tseng@ust.hk