Jianmin (Jimmy) Gu, Ph.D. Technical Expert, Vehicle Shift Quality and Transient NVH Vehicle Attributes and CAE Department, NAE VDEC Ford Motor Company Advanced Engineering Center 2419, MD 21 Phone: (313) 805-4372, Fax: (313) 621-2351 E-mail: jgu2@ford.com

Brief Biography

Education

• MBA, University of Michigan, expected 200X
• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2000
• M.S. in Structural Mechanics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1995
• B.S. in Ocean Engineering, Technological and Engineering Economics (Dual Major), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1992

Research Interests

• NVH (Noise, Vibration and Harshness)
• Structural Mechanics and Dynamics
• Flexible Multi-body Dynamics
• Durability
• Finite Element Methods
• Numerical Computation
• Mechanics of Materials

Projects and Publications (Internal Sites)

• Recent and Ongoing Projects at Ford (since March 2003)
• Selected Publications and Presentations (since April 2000)
• Other Projects at Ford (between 2000 and 2003)
• Past Publications (selected before 2000)
• Manuscript Review for Journals
• Patent and Invention

Honors and Awards

• Trade Secret Award, Ford Motor Company, 2006
• Vehicle Attributes and CAE Recognition Award, Ford Motor Company, 2006
• Engineer of The Month, CAE and Durability Engineering, Ford Motor Company, 2005
• Henry Ford II Distinguished Award for Excellence in Automotive Engineering, Society of Automotive Engineers, 2004
• Vehicle Evaluation and Verification Achievement Award, Ford Motor Company, 2004
• Marquis Who's Who Series, 2002-2006
• Vehicle NVH Recognition Awards, Ford Motor Company, 2002-2003
• 5th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics Scholarship, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics, 1999
• Finalist Award, 11th Robert J. Melosh Medal Competition on Finite Element Analysis, International Association for Computational Mechanics, 1999
• Computational Dynamics Fellowship, Mechanical Dynamics, Inc., 1998-1999
• College of Engineering Distinguished Achievement Award, University of Michigan, 1998
• MEAM Departmental Graduate Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1996
• Graduate Office Fellowship, Michigan State University, 1995-1996
• Best Paper Award, 7th National Conference on Offshore Engineering, 1994

Affiliations

• Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society
• American Academy of Mechanics (AAM)
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)
• Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
• United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM)