Sean F. Wu, Ph.D. Fellow, ASA, ASME University Distinguished Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202 Telephone: (313)577-3884 (office) Fax: (313)577-8789 E-mail: sean_wu@wayne.edu EDUCATION: Georgia Institute of Technology, MSME, 1984; Ph.D., 1987. Zhejiang University (China), BSME, 1982 EMPLOYMENT: 2005 present University Distinguished Professor Wayne State University 2002 2005 Charles DeVlieg Professor Wayne State University 1999 present Professor Wayne State University 1995 1999 Associate Professor Wayne State University 1990 1995 Assistant Professor Wayne State University 1988 1990 Assist. Professor (Research) Wayne State University OTHER APPOITMENT: 2003 2008 Co-Founder and CTO SenSound, LLC. 2008 present Honorable Professor Zhejiang Automotive Engineering Institute MEMBERSHIP: American Society of Mechanical Engineers: Fellow Acoustical Society of America: Fellow Society of Automotive Engineering: Member International Institute of Noise Control Engineering: Member HONROS/AWARDS: 1. 2010 Outstanding Faculty Service Award, the College of Engineering, WSU 2. 2009 Outstanding Faculty Service Award, the College of Engineering, WSU 3. 2008 Faculty Mentor Award, the Office of the Vice President for Research, WSU 4. Honorary Professorship, Zhejiang Automotive Engineering Institute, China, 2008 5. The 2006 Inaugural Alpha Award for Technology Innovation, the Engineering Society of Detroit (EDS) 1
6. The 2006 Inventor of the Year Award, WSU 7. Appointed to the rank of University Distinguished Professor by the Board of Governors, WSU, August 2005 8. Recognized by the Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce, May 2005 9. Inducted to the Inaugural Asian Academy Hall of Fame, November 2004 10. Named the most Influential Pan-Asians in Michigan by the Corp! Magazine, 2004 11. The 2004 Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award in Natural Sciences and Engineering, WSU 12. The Best Small Business Technology Award, the State of Michigan, 2004 13. The 2003 Inventor of the Year Award, WSU 14. The 2003 Excellence in Teaching Award, the College of Engineering, WSU 15. The Charles DeVlieg Professor of Mechanical Engineering, WSU, 2002 2005 16. Associate Editor, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, ASA, 2003 present 17. Editor, Journal of Computational Acoustics, 2002 2008 18. Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Computational Acoustics, 2008 present 19. Fellow, ASA, 2002 present 20. Fellow, ASME, 2001 present 21. The 1998/99 Career Development Chair, WSU 22. Recognized for Mentoring an Undergraduate in winning a Competitive Award, WSU, 1998 23. Recognized for Mentoring an Undergraduate in winning a Competitive Award, WSU, 1997 24. The 1997 Teetor Education Award, SAE 25. The 1987 Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Presentation Award, Georgia Institute of Technology BIOGRAPHICAL CITATIONS: 1. Strathmore s Who s Who, 2003 2004 and 2004 2005 editions 2. 2003 2004 Edition of America s Registry of Outstanding Professionals 3. Who's Who in Engineering Education (WWEE), 2002 Edition 4. Who s Who in American Education, 6 th Edition, 2002 5. International WHO S WHO, 2001 Edition 6. International Directory of Distinguished Leadership, 9 th Ed., 2000 7. Who s Who in the World, 16 th Edition, 1999 8. Who s Who in the World, 15 th Edition, 1997 9. Who s Who in American Science and Engineering, 4 th Edition, 1996 10. Who s Who in American Education, 5 th Edition, 1996 2
11. Who s Who of International Youth in Achievement, 4 th Edition, 1986 (Declined to be accepted in similar biographical citations after 2006) COURSES TAUGHT: 1. ME3410 Vibration I 2. ME4993 Vibrations: Theory and Experiment 3. ME5410 Vibration II 4. ME5440 Industrial Noise Control 5. ME5460 Fundamentals of Acoustic Radiation 6. ME7460 Advanced Acoustic Radiation 7. ME7440 Signal Processing Technologies and Applications SELECTED REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS: 1. X.- F. Wu, A. D. Pierce, and J. H. Ginsberg, Variational method for computing surface acoustic pressure on vibrating bodies, applied to transversely oscillating disks, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. OE-12, 412 418 (1987). 2. X.- F. Wu, Faster calculations of sound radiation from vibrating cylinders using variational formulations, Transactions of the ASME Journal of Vibration, Acoustics, Stress, and Reliability in Design, Vol. 111, 101 107 (1989). 3. X.- F. Wu and A. D. Pierce, Uniqueness of solutions to variationally formulated acoustic radiation problems, Transactions of the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, Vol. 112, 263 267 (1990). 4. X.- F. Wu and A. Akay, Sound radiation from vibrating bodies in motion, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 91, 2544 2555 (1992). 5. S. F. Wu, Nonuniqueness of solutions to extended Kirchhoff integral formulations, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 93, 683 695 (1993). 6. S. F. Wu, Transient radiation from an impulsively accelerated body, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 94, 542 554 (1993). 7. S. F. Wu and Z. Wang, Extended Kirchhoff integral formulations for sound radiation from vibrating cylinders in motion, Transactions of the ASME Journal of Vibration and acoustics, Vol. 115, 324 331 (1993). 8. S. F. Wu, Vibration analysis of elastic coupler in a planar mechanism, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 95, No. 5, 2539 2549 (1994). 9. Z. Wang and S. F. Wu, Radiated acoustic pressure from a moving, nonuniformly vibrating cylinder with two spherical endcaps, Journal of Computational Acoustics, Vol. 2, No. 1, 71 82 (1994). 10. S. F. Wu and L. Maestrello, Responses of a finite baffled plate to turbulent flow excitations, AIAA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 1, 13 19 (1995). 3
11. S. F. Wu and Z. Wang, 3 A fast Fourier transformation algorithm for the Kirchhoff integral formulation, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 97, No. 1, 108 115 (1995). 12. S. F. Wu and J. Zhu, Sound radiation from two semi-infinite dissimilar plates subject to a harmonic line force excitation in the presence of mean flow. Part I: Theory, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 97, No. 5, 2709 2723 (1995). 13. J. Zhu and S. F. Wu, Sound radiation from two semi-infinite dissimilar plates subject to a harmonic line force excitation in the presence of mean flow. Part II: Asymptotic approximation and numerical results, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 97, No. 5, 2724 2732 (1995). 14. S. F. Wu and J. Zhu, Responses of a heavy fluid-loaded infinite plate to a harmonic line force excitation in mean flow, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 98, No. 3, 1786 1795 (1995). 15. S. F. Wu, S. Su, and H. Shah, Modeling of noise spectrum of an axial flow fan in a free field, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 200(4), 379 399 (1997). 16. S. F. Wu and J. Zhu, Stability analysis of a nonlinear plate in mean flow, Journal of Computational Acoustics, Vol. 5, No. 2, 137 155 (1997). 17. S. F. Wu, G. Wu, M. M. Puskarz, and M. E. Gleason, Prediction of noise transmission through a vehicle side window due to turbulent boundary layer excitation, Transactions of the ASME Transactions Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, Vol. 119, 557 562 (1997). 18. Z. Wang and S. F. Wu, Helmholtz Equation-Least Squares (HELS) method for reconstructing the acoustic pressure field, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 102, No. 4, 2020 2032 (1997). 19. S. F. Wu and Q. Hu, An alternative formulation for predicting sound radiation from a vibrating object, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 103, No. 4, 1763 1774 (1998). 20. S. F. Wu, S. Su, and H. Shah, Noise radiation from engine cooling fans, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 216, No. 1, 107 132 (1998). 21. S. F. Wu and J. Yu, Reconstructing interior acoustic pressure fields by using HELS method, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 104, No. 4, 2054 2060 (1998). 22. Q. Hu and S. F. Wu, An explicit integral formulation for transient acoustic radiation, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 104, No. 6, 3251 3258 (1998). 23. S. F. Wu and J. Zhu, Bifurcation and chaos in flexural vibration of a baffled plate in mean flow, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 105, No. 1, 732 742 (1998). 24. S. F. Wu and Z. Zhou, Simulation of vehicle pass-by noise radiation, Transactions of the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, Vol. 121, No. 2, 197 203 (1999). 25. S. F. Wu, Prediction of Engine Cooling Fan Noise Radiation, Noise & Vibration Worldwide, Vol. 30, No.9, 12 19 (1999). 26. S. F. Wu, On reconstruction of acoustic pressure fields by using HELS method, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 107, No. 5, 2511 2522 (2000). 4
27. N. Rayess and S. F. Wu, Experimental validations of the HELS method on reconstructing radiated acoustic pressures from a complex vibrating structure, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 107, No. 6, 2955 2964 (2000). 28. S. F. Wu, N. Rayess, and X. Zhao, Visualizing sound radiation from a vibrating bowling ball, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 109, No. 6, 2771 2779 (2001). 29. Q. Hu, S. F. Wu, S. Stottler, and R. Raghupathi, Modeling of dynamic responses of an automotive fuel rail system. Part I: Injector, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 245, No. 5, 801 814 (2001). 30. S. F. Wu, Q. Hu, S. Stottler, and R. Raghupathi, Modeling of dynamic responses of an automotive fuel rail system. Part II: Fuel rail system, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 245, No. 5, 815 834 (2001). 31. S. F. Wu, N. Rayess, and N.- M. Shiau, Visualizing sound radiation from a vehicle front end using the HELS method, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 248, No. 5, 963 974 (2001). 32. S. F. Wu, L. Li, and E. Rivin, Fuel pump vibration measurements by using laser transducers, Noise Control Engineering Journal, Vol. 49, No. 6, 248 257 (2001). 33. S. F. Wu and X. Zhao, Combined Helmholtz equation least squares (CHELS) method for reconstructing acoustic radiation, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 112, No. 1, 179 188 (2002). 34. V. Isakov and S. F. Wu, On theory and applications of the HELS method in inverse acoustics, Inverse Problem, Vol. 18, 1147 1159 (2002). 35. S. F. Wu, Absolute instability or chaos? A tribute to David Crighton, Journal of Computational Acoustics, Vol. 10, No. 4, 407 419 (2002). 36. S. F. Wu, Hybrid nearfield acoustical holography, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 115, No. 1, 207 217 (2004). 37. T. Semenova and S. F. Wu, The Helmholtz equation least squares method and the Rayleigh s hypothesis in nearfield acoustical holography, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 115, No. 4, 1632 1640 (2004). 38. X. Zhao and S. F. Wu, Reconstruction of vibro-acoustic fields by using hybrid nearfield acoustical holography in half space, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 117, No. 2, 555 565 (2005). 39. T. Semenova and S. F. Wu, On the choice of expansion functions in the Helmholtz equation leastsquares method, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 117, No. 2, 701 710 (2005). 40. S. F. Wu, H.-C. Lu, and M. S. Bajwa, Reconstruction of transient acoustic radiation from a sphere, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 117, No. 4, 2065 2077 (2005). 41. M. Moondra and S. F. Wu, Visualization of vehicle interior sound field using the HELS based NAH, Noise Control Engineering Journal, Vol. 53, No. 4, 146 154 (2005). 42. X. Zhao and S. F. Wu, Reconstruction of the vibro-acoustic fields using hybrid nearfield acoustical holography, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 282, 1183 1199 (2005). 43. Z. Ni and S. F. Wu, An alternative integral formulation for predicting acoustic radiation, Journal of Computational Acoustics Vol. 15, 81 94 (2006). 5
44. S. F. Wu, Methods for reconstructing acoustic quantities based on acoustic pressure measurements, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 124, 2680 2697 (2008). 45. H.-C. Lu and S. F. Wu, Reconstruction of vibro-acoustic responses of a highly non-spherical structure using Helmholtz equation least squares method Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 125, 1538 1548 (2009). 46. S. F. Wu and N. Zhu, Locating arbitrarily time-dependent sound sources in 3D space in real time, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 128, 728 739 (2010). 47. Z. Ni and S. F. Wu, Experimental validation of alternate integral-formulation method for predicting acoustic radiation based on particle velocity measurements Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 128, 1056 1062 (2010). 48. L. K. Natarajan and S. F. Wu, Reconstruction of normal surface velocities on a baffled plate using Helmholtz equation least squares method, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (pending). 49. R. E. Dziklinski, III. and S. F. Wu, On the spatial resolution in reconstructing two coherent sources using nearfield acoustical holography, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (submitted in 2011). 50. N. Zhu and S. F. Wu, Error analysis of a model based approach for locating arbitrary sound sources in 3D space in real time, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (submitted in 2011). 51. S. F. Wu and N. Zhu, Sonic detection and ranging, Physical Letters Review (submitted in 2011). U.S. Patents: 1. S. F. Wu and Z. Wang, Noise diagnostic system, U.S. Patent No. 5,712,805, January 27, 1998. 2. S. F. Wu and Q. Hu, System and method for predicting sound radiation and scattering from an arbitrarily shaped object, U.S. Patent No. 5,886,264, March 23, 1999. 3. S. F. Wu, Method and apparatus for reconstructing an acoustic field, U.S. Patent No. 6,615,143, September 2, 2003. 4. S. F. Wu, Pressure and/or particle velocity measurements based nearfield acoustical holography, U.S. Patent Reference No. 67,021,015, December 27, 2005. 5. S. F. Wu, Reconstruction of transient acoustic radiation from a finite object subject to arbitrarily time-dependent excitations, U.S. Patent Reference No. 6,996,481, February 7, 2006. 6. S. F. Wu, Panel Acoustic Contributions Examination (PACE), U.S. Patent Reference No. 67,021-010, February 13, 2006. 7. S. F. Wu, Snapshot of Noise and Acoustic Propagation, U. S. Patent Reference No. 67,021,011, July 2006. 8. S. F. Wu, Non-invasive Modal Analysis, U.S. Patent Reference No. 67,021-014, December 2006. 9. S. F. Wu and R. Beniwal, 3 Acoustic Particulates Density Meter, U.S. Patent No. 7,213,445, June 7, 2007. 10. S. F. Wu, Far-field analysis of noise sources, U.S. Patent No. 7,330,396, February 2008. 6
11. S. F. Wu, Process for predicting flow-induced noise, U.S. Patent Reference No. 12,048,904, March 14, 2008. 12. S. F. Wu, 3D Soundscaping, U.S. Patent Reference No. 61,172,494, April 2009. 7