Jane Wang Receives STLE International Award

This is the highest award from the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers

Q. Jane Wang, professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University, has received the 2015 International Award from the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE). The Society’s highest award, it recognizes Wang’s contributions to the field of tribology.

STLE president Maureen Hunter (left) presents Professor Wang with the 2015 International AwardWang officially accepted the award from STLE president Maureen Hunter during the society’s annual meeting in Dallas last month.

Wang is a successful engineering educator with a career-long interest in tribology. Her research includes the analyses of extreme condition tribology problems and thermal tribological designs of machine elements and their surfaces. In 2013, she served as co-chief editor of the Encyclopedia of Tribology with Yip-Wah Chung, professor of materials science and engineering.

After receiving her PhD from Northwestern in 1993, Wang joined the University’s faculty in 1998. She is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and STLE. She has received many awards, including the STLE’s Surface Engineering Technical Committee Best Paper Award, a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, and the Captain Alfred E. Hunt Memorial Best Paper Award.

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