Zhijian (ZJ) Pei

Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
Holder of the Mike and Sugar Barnes Professorship II, Industrial & Systems Engineering

Educational Background

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 1995

Fellow, Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineering, 2022
Fellow, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2016
Swanson Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016
Director’s Award for Excellence Program Director, National Science Foundation, 2015
Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2010
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2004
Research Initiation Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2002
Mike and Sugar Barnes Professorship II, Wm. Michael Barnes Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2022
I. Andrew Rader Professorship II, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2020
TEES Research Professorship, Texas A&M University, 2016
Carl R. and Mary T. Ice Industrial Engineering Professorship, Kansas State University, 2014
Dr. Ron and Rae Iman Outstanding Faculty Award for Research, Kansas State University Alumni Association, 2013-14
Commerce Bank Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award, Kansas State University, 2011-12
Frankenhoff Outstanding Research Award, College of Engineering, Kansas State University, 2008
Outstanding Senior Scientist Award, Sigma Xi, Kansas State University Chapter, 2010

Miao, G.X., Moghadasi, M., Du, W.C., Pei, Z.J., and Ma, C., 2022, “Experimental investigation on the effect of roller traverse and rotation speeds on ceramic binder jetting additive manufacturing,” Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Vol. 79, pp. 887-894. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmapro.2022.05.039.
Thakare, K., Jerpseth, L., Pei, Z.J., and Qin, H.M., 2022, “Applying layer-by-layer photo-crosslinking in green bioprinting: shape fidelity and cell viability of printed hydrogel constructs containing algae cells,” Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 144, No. 9, 094502. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4054086.
Porter, Q., Pei, Z.J., and Ma, C., 2022, “Binder jetting and infiltration of metal matrix nanocomposites,” Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 144, No. 7, 074502. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053156.
Wei, X., Zou, N., Zeng, L., and Pei, Z.J., 2022, “PolyJet 3D printing: predicting color by multilayer perceptron neural network,” Annals of 3D Printed Medicine, Vol. 5, 100049. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stlm.2022.100049.
Du, W.C., Li, M., Pei, Z.J., and Ma, C., 2022, “Performances of three models in predicting packing densities and optimal mixing fractions of mixtures of micropowders with different sizes,” Powder Technology, Vol. 397, 117095. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2021.117095.