May 28, 2024

Rutgers Professor Yuebin Guo Receives ASME William T. Ennor Manufacturing Technology Award

Yuebin Guo, Henry Rutgers Professor of Advanced Manufacturing, has been selected to receive the 2024 William T. Ennor Manufacturing Technology Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the society’s prestigious honor for manufacturing-related engineering. Dr. Guo was selected for the award “for fundamental contributions to hard machining process development, surface integrity characterization, and functionality validation, which has generated a significant economic and sustainability impact in the machining industry.”

The Ennor Award honors an individual or team of individuals for developing or contributing significantly to an innovative manufacturing technology, the implementation of which has resulted in substantial economic and/or societal benefits. Professor Guo will receive the Award during the 2024 ASME International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC 2024) and SME North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC 52) to be held in Knoxville, Tennessee. [List of award recipients]

Guo has exemplified this criterion in a multitude of ways over the last several decades of his career.

Dr. Guo is a pioneer in exploring hard cutting to replace traditional grinding as a sustainable finishing process. He has also successfully extended hard cutting technology to dry cutting difficult-to-machine superalloys and hybrid cutting-burnishing to produce superior surface integrity. Dr. Guo has developed a systematic approach for characterizing and understanding surface integrity for functional surfaces. He experimentally proved that hard cutting is comparable or superior to grinding in terms of fatigue performance. He has established the basic relationships between process-induced surface integrity and functionality of machined components, which solved the long-lasting concerns in the machining community regarding the myth of the white layer. These fundamental research results pave the way for the worldwide application of hard cutting in the manufacturing industry with great confidence.

As a research leader in AI manufacturing, he is instrumental in establishing the New Jersey Advanced Manufacturing Initiative (NJAMI), which focuses on manufacturing digitalization (including digital twins), industry engagement, and workforce development.

Guo’s groundbreaking accomplishments have earned him many accolades, including being elected as a fellow of the ASME, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP).