Wei Chen is a Chinese-American mechanical engineer known for her work on robustengineering design,robust design of experiments,metamodeling in design,uncertainty quantification, and design under uncertainty.[1] She is the Wilson-Cook Professor in Engineering Design atNorthwestern University, where she chairs the mechanical engineering department.[2]
Chen earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering fromShanghai Jiao Tong University, a master's degree from theUniversity of Houston, and a Ph.D. from theGeorgia Institute of Technology,[3] completed in 1995.[4] She joined the Northwestern University faculty in 2003.[2]
She is the editor-in-chief of theASMEJournal of Mechanical Design and president of theInternational Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization.[3] She became chair of mechanical engineering at Northwestern in 2020.[2]
Chen is the coauthor with Christopher Hoyle and Henk Jan Wassenaar of the bookDecision-based Design: Integrating Consumer Preferences into Engineering Design (Springer, 2012). She is also a co-editor of severaledited volumes.[5]
Chen was the 2006 winner of theRalph R. Teetor Educational Award ofSAE International. She was named a Fellow of theAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2009,[3] and was elected to theNational Academy of Engineering in 2019 "for contributions to design under uncertainty in products and systems, and leadership in the engineering design community".[4][6]
