Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer for 2004
One of the thirteen worldwide recipients for the 2004 award,
Dr. SK Ong, an assistant professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department,
National University of Singapore, has made significant contributions to
manufacturing research and education in the area of life-cycle engineering
(LCE), and virtual and augmented reality applications in concurrent and
distributed manufacturing. She received her doctorate in mechanical engineering
from the National University of Singapore in 1996, where she worked with Professor
Andrew YC Nee, who incidentally was the first recipient of this award in
Dr. SK Ong’s recent work includes LCE research
performed in the life cycle costing and environmental impacts assessments of
manufacturing products and processes. Thus far, the results have great
potential applications in integrating environmental factors into the product
life cycles and achieving eco-efficiency of products and processes. These have
important impact on, and would contribute towards, the R&D development of
green products and processes in the Singapore industries as increasing
legislative pressure from the government and the consciousness of the customers
have forced the industries to bear the responsibility for the environmental
impacts of their products' total life cycle, as a major strategy towards
sustainable development. Dr. SK Ong’s research also
includes as virtual and augmented reality applications in manufacturing,
digital manufacturing, and distributed collaborative design.
Dr. SK Ong has over 70 publications, which include 2
high-level edited research monographs by Springer Verlag,
45 refereed international journal papers, 5 book chapters as well as 22
conference papers. Her co-authored paper received the prestigious Norman A.
Dudley Award 2003, for the publication on “Hybrid Genetic Algorithms and
Simulated Annealing Approach for the Optimization of Process Plans for
Prismatic Parts”, International Journal of Production Research (IJPR), Vol. 40,
No. 8, pp.1899-1922. The Norman A. Dudley Award is presented on a yearly basis
by the IJPR to the paper judged to have the most potential for making the
greatest contribution to the advance of manufacturing practice. It is selected
from over 200 published papers from authors worldwide in that year.
The Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award was created in 1979. The Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award is of
the same quality as existing SME honor awards. The awards are presented at
major meetings of SME. The Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award is
named in honor of an SME member who is considered a role model for young
engineers, and this year's (2004) choice is Dr. M. Eugene Merchant.
This is how the medal looks like:
