As Associate Professor and Graduate Program Advisor at Department of Industrial Engineering, Lamar University (2005~Present), Dr. Zhu has created 8 new courses and lectured the following courses:

• Graduate Advisor (since Fall 2006): advise about 30 to 40 graduate students of Industrial Engineering each semester; advise new and transfer students; graduate students admission;
• Quality Improvement / Statistical Quality Control (Fall 2005, Fall 2006): Control charts, Process capability analysis, Acceptance sampling;
• Virtual Reality and Computer Haptics (Fall 2005, Summer I 2006, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, newly developed course): Haptics and Virtual reality research, OpenHaptics programming;
• Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (Spring 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011): Solid modeling, Pro/E computer-aided product design and manufacturing, CNC;
• Automated Systems Engineering (Spring 2006, Summer I 2007, Summer II 2011, newly developed course): Control system, Sensor and Actuators, PLC, Assembly, Flexible Manufacturing System, Automated Inspection;
• Engineering Material and Manufacturing Processes (Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010): Engineering Material, Manufacturing Processes, Process Planning, Machining Lab;
• Engineering Database Design (Summer I 2006, 2007, Fall 2009, Summer II 2010, Fall 2010): Database design, SQL, Visual Basic .NET, ASP.NET;
• Advanced Manufacturing (Summer II 2006, newly developed course): Flexible Manufacturing System, Automation, Six-Sigma, Pro/Manufacturing and Pro/Mechanica;
• Computational Methods in Research (Fall 2007, Fall 2008): research tools in Industrial Engineering including C++, Object-oriented programming, COIN-OR and Computer Graphics;
• Introduction to Robotics (Spring 2008, 2009, Summer II 2010, Summer II 2011, newly developed course);
• Multi-objective Optimization (Spring 2010, newly developed course);
• Statistical Decision Making (Probability and Statistics II);
• Coordinate Graduate Research Seminar (Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, newly developed course).

The Zhu Lab has been used for teaching various hands-on labs including robotics, PLC-based control systems and haptics.

Maintained by Weihang Zhu, Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, Lamar University

Last Updated by Weihang Zhu on June 1, 2011