Dr. Shin-Min Song
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Engineering Building -Room 226A
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115, U.S.A.
Phone: (815) 753-9970, Fax: (815) 753-0416
E-mail: smsong@ceet.niu.edu
B.S., Mech. Eng., Tatung Inst. of Technology, Taipei, 1973
M.S., Mech. Eng., Ohio State University, 1981
Ph.D., Mech. Eng., Ohio State University, 1984
Professor and Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, June 1, 2001-date
Manufacturing Engineer, Project Leader, Associate Manager, R&D Department, Heavy Electrical Apparatus Division, Tatung Company, Taipei, 1975-1979
Visiting Engineer at Westinghouse Electric Corp. 1976
Teaching Associate, Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ohio State University, 1980-1984
Assistant Professor/Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1984-2001
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan Institute of Technology, 1992
Stress Analysis of Buckling of Large Gas Pipe, Gas Research Institute, 2004
Modeling of Load Conditions of a Human Bearing a Cooler, California Innovations, 2005.
Tatung Company Scholarship, 1971
Tatung Company R & D Award, 4 time winner, 1977 1979
Best Paper Award on Robotics, the 8th Applied Mechanisms Conference, St. Louis, 1983. (Paper title: Computer aided geometric design of legs for a walking machine.)
Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1987-1992
ASME Fellow, elected since 1999
Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Robotics, walking machines, gait study, computer-aided-design, diamond film applications, fuel cell
“Seasonally Adjustable Mounting System for Solar Panels,?Co-Inventors: H. Vendig and S.M. Song, filed for non-provisional utility patent application, 2007
Lin, J.N. and Song, S.M., Modeling Gait Transitions between Two Periodic Gaits for Quadrupeds and Hexapods, ASME Paper No. IMECE2003-42710, Proc. of ASME Int. Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Washington D.C., November 16-21, 2003
Ye, T. and Song, S.M., Gait Planning for Legged Robots, Proc. of The Eleventh World Congress in Mechanism and Machine Science, Tianjin, China, 2004
Wan, X. and Song, S.M., A Cam-Controlled, Single-actuator-driven Leg Mechanism for Legged Vehicles, ASME Paper No. IMECE2004-62266, Proc. of ASME Int. Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Anaheim, California, November 13-19, 2004
Song, S.M., Sung, James, Pai, Y-L., Tsai, M-Y., The Fractor Analysis of CMP Pad Roughness, Proc. of 2004 VMIC, Hawaii 2004
Xiao, J. and Song, S.M., A Search for Gaits that are More Stable than Wave Gait, Proc. of IEEE Int. Symposium on Biometrics and Security Technologies (ISBAST 2007), Karachi, April 2008
Teng, C-C, Song, S-M., Sung, C-M. and Lin, C-T., Growth Mechanisms of Nanocatalysts Assisted Diamond Films by Hot Filament and Microwave Plasma CVD: A Comparison Study