Yuan-Shin Lee

Industrial and Systems Engineering

  • Phone: 919.515.7195
  • Office: Fitts-Woolard Hall 4163

Yuan-Shin Lee serves as the Director of the Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center (SMIC) at NC State University, funded by the Department of Energy (DOE). The SMIC Center is to link manufacturers, industrial technology vendors, systems integrators and equipment providers with academia, demonstrating and driving research and innovation that scales to all of US manufacturing. Lee has been a professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at NC State University since 1995. He is a registered professional engineer (PE) in mechanical engineering. He is also a certified manufacturing engineer in system integration and control.

Lee earlier served as a Department Editor for IIE Transactions and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Computer-Aided Design and Applications, the International Journal of Mechtronics and Manufacturing Systems (IJMMS), the Journal of Manufacturing Systems (JMS), the International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IJISE), and the Journal of Computer-Aided Drafting, Design and Manufacturing (CADDM).

Lee is also an FAA-certified private pilot. He flies single-engine land-based airplanes.

Research Interests

Lee’s research interests include bio-medical manufacturing, Computational geometry for bio-medical design and manufacturing, CAD/CAM/CAE integration, 5-axis sculptured surface NC machining, computer graphics, Rapid prototyping, high-speed Machining, computational intelligence, product realization, computer-aided process planning and tool selection and optimization.

Education

DegreeProgramSchoolYear
Ph.D.Doctor of PhilosophyPurdue University1993
MSIEMaster of Science in Industrial EngineeringPurdue University1990
BSMEBachelor of Science in Mechanical EngineeringNational Taiwan University1984

Honors and Awards

  • Career/PYI Award, National Science Foundation
  • 2012 | CAD Best Paper Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 2008 | Fellow Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 2007 | Fellow Award, Institute of Industrial Engineers
  • 2006 | Technical Innovation Award, Institute of Industrial Engineers
  • 2001 | ALCOA Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award
  • 2000 | Alumni Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award, NC State University
  • 1999 | C.A. Anderson Outstanding Faculty Award
  • 1998 | Norman Dudley Award from the Taylor & Francis Journals
  • 1997 | Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer, SME

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Publications

A Novel Analytical Explicit Method to Calculate Formed Wheel and Tooth Flank of Involute Gears in Profile Grinding Process
Guo, Q., Zhao, W., Shu, C., Lee, Y.-S., Sun, Y., Ren, L., & Song, M. (2023), JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME, 145(6). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4056925
Assessment of glass-to-glass welding by USP lasers with machine learning approaches
Ho, Y.-M., Lee, C.-H., Ho, J.-R., Lin, C.-K., Tung, P.-C., & Lee, Y.-S. (2023, August), MANUFACTURING LETTERS, Vol. 35, pp. 160–165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mfglet.2023.08.003
Design and 3D printing of waveguide-based ultrasonic longitudinal-torsional transducers for medical needle insertion
Wang, Y., Cai, Y., Gong, H., & Lee, Y.-S. (2022), SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL, 344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2022.113706
Design and Development of Longitudinal and Torsional Ultrasonic Vibration-assisted Needle Insertion Device for Medical Applications
Wang, Y., Cai, Y., & Lee, Y.-S. (2021), Computer-Aided Design and Applications, 19(4), 797–811. https://doi.org/10.14733/cadaps.2022.797-811
Study on the stability for non-uniform helix angle tools in the milling process
Guo, Q., Zhang, M.-Y., Lee, Y.-S., Yang, Z.-B., Jiang, Y., & Feng, C.-H. (2020), JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL AND PRODUCTION ENGINEERING, 37(8), 387–393. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681015.2020.1802621
A Gouge-Free Tool Axis Reorientation Method for Kinematics Compliant Avoidance of Singularity in 5-Axis Machining
Sun, S., Sun, Y., & Lee, Y.-S. (2019), JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME, 141(5). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4043266
A Method of Generating Spiral Tool Path for Direct Three-Axis Computer Numerical Control Machining of Measured Cloud of Point
Xu, J., Xu, L., Sun, Y., Lee, Y.-S., & Zhao, J. (2019), JOURNAL OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING, 19(4). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4043532
Jerk-limited feedrate scheduling and optimization for five-axis machining using new piecewise linear programming approach
Sun, Y. W., Chen, M. S., Jia, J. J., Lee, Y.-S., & Guo, D. M. (2019), SCIENCE CHINA-TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 62(7), 1067–1081. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-018-9404-9
Parametric study for asymmetric flexure hinge design for tissue cutting
Jones, J. A., Lee, Y.-S., & Moore, J. Z. (2019), PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART B-JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MANUFACTURE, 233(4), 1302–1309. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954405418774587
Iso-Planar Feed Vector-Fields-Based Streamline Tool Path Generation for Five-Axis Compound Surface Machining With Torus-End Cutters
Sun, S., Sun, Y., Xu, J., & Lee, Y.-S. (2018), JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME, 140(7). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4039653

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Grants

  • Robotic Pick-Place Operation for Automated Clothing Assembly
  • SM Profiles for CNC Machining - CESMII BP3 Wave4
  • NC State University Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center (SMIC), CESMII Budget Year 2020 Quarter 1
  • Engineering a Novel 3D Metal Printed Orthodontic System for Lingual Attachment-enabled Clear Aligner Therapy
  • Streaming In-Process Machine Data from a Mill-Turn Machining Operation to the Digital Manufacturing Commons
  • EAGER: Cybermanufacturing: Industrial Machine Operating System (iMOS)
  • Collaborative Research: Investigation of Vibratory Cutting Mechanics with Novel Compliant Needle Geometry for Precision Needle Positioning Machine
  • Regenerative Medicine Manufacturing Systems
  • EAGER: Engineering for Regenerative Medicine
  • HCC-Medium: Haptic Simulation Design for Motor Rehabilitation and Skill Training
Yuan-Shin Lee