Guangming ZhangGuangming Zhang
Associate Professor
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Dr. Zhang obtained a bachelor's degree and a master's degree both in mechanical engineering from Tianjin University, The People's Republic of China. He obtained a master's degree and a Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Advanced Design and Manufacturing Laboratory at the University of Maryland. He holds a joint appointment with the Institute for Systems Research.
Dr. Zhang worked at the Northwest Medical Surgical Instruments Factory in China where he served as a principal engineer to design surgical instruments and dental equipment. He also taught at the Beijing Institute of Printing and received the National Award for Outstanding Teaching from the Press and Publication Administration of the People's Republic of China in 1987. In 1992 he was selected by his peers at the University of Maryland to receive the Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award. He was the recipient of the E. Robert Kent Outstanding Teaching Award of the A. James Clark School of Engineering in 1993.
He was a recipient of the 1992 Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering. In 1995, 1997, 1998 and 1999, he received the Award of Commendation, Award of Member of the Year, and the Award of Appreciation from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Region 3, for his outstanding service as the faculty advisor to the SME Student Chapter at College Park.
Dr. Zhang has actively participated in the NSF-sponsored ECSEL grant since 1990. He currently serves as the principal investigator for this grant at the University of Maryland, and coordinates the ECSEL-sponsored projects on integration of design, on active learning and hands-on experiences, and on developing methods for team learning. He is a member of ASME, SME and ASEE. He is also a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing. He is an associate editor of the International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems. He has written two textbooks, about 70 technical papers and holds one patent.
Dr. Zhang's research interests include Design and Fabrication of Dental Restorations, Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing, Rapid Prototyping, Engineering Statistics and Teaching Innovations.
Information on the Mouth Motion Simulator.
Affiliated Centers and
Research Laboratories
| Advanced Design Manufacturing Laboratory | Computer Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory | Intelligent Servosystems Laboratory |
Rapid Prototyping Conference (1996)
US Patent 5,507,962 -- A Method of Fabricating Oxide Ceramic Articles
More on machining of advanced ceramics
Books
Engineering
Design and Pro/ENGINEER College House Enterprises, Knoxville,
TN, 1998.
Quality Management in Systems, The Commercial Press, Beijing, People's Republic of China, 1998 (in English).
Refereed Papers
G.M. Zhang, Yuqing Cao, and Lixun Qi, "Single Point Cutting
of Machinable Glass Ceramics," Transactions of the North
American Manufacturing Research Institute of SME, Vol. 27, pp.
159-164, 1999.
E. Rebeck and G.M. Zhang, "A Method for Evaluating the Stiffness of a Hexapod Machine Tool Support Structure," International Journal of Flexible Automation and Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 7, pp. 149-165, 1999.
G.M. Zhang and L. Qi, "NC Machining to Fabricate Dental Crowns Using Glass Ceramics," International Journal of Flexible Automation and Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 7, pp. 167-183, 1999.
L. Qi and G.M. Zhang, "Creation of Digital Prototypes in Dental Applications," International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 2, pp. 24-31, 2000.
Yuqing Cao and G.M. Zhang, "Effect of Surface Finish on Strength Degradation of Glass Ceramics," Engineering Failure Analysis, Vol. 7, pp. 11-26, 2000.
G.M. Zhang, Yuqing Cao, and Lixun Qi, "A Computational Approach to Evaluate Surface Integrity of Glass Ceramics," Transactions of the North American Manufacturing Research Institute of SME, Vol. 28, pp. 279-284, 2000.
Some of Dr. Zhang's publications can be accessed here from the ISR Technical Reports Archive.