Kon-Well Wang

Kon-Well Wang
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley
National Taiwan University
Engineering career
DisciplineMechanical Engineering, Structural Dynamics & Controls
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan
National Science Foundation
Penn State University
General Motors Research Labs
EmployerUniversity of Michigan
Websitehttps://me.engin.umich.edu/people/faculty/kon-well-wang/

Kon-Well Wang is an American academic in mechanical engineering, best known for his scholarship and research work in the field of structural dynamics and controls, especially in emerging adaptive structures & material systems, harnessing functional materials, reconfigurable metamaterials, and embodied physical computing and mechano-intellegence, with applications in vibration & noise controls, acoustic & elastic wave tailoring, shape morphing & deployment, energy harvesting, structural health monitoring, and vehicle and robotic system dynamics. He is the A. Galip Ulsoy Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and the Stephen P. Timoshenko Professor of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at the University of Michigan (U-M).