Dah-Chuan Gong, PhD, is joining UWM’s Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering (IME) this fall as a visiting scientist. Gong was most recently dean of the College of Management and a professor of industrial and business management at Chang Gung University, Taiwan.
At UWM, he will support IME faculty in instruction and research endeavors, including research projects, publications, and research grant submissions, with special attention given to those related to logistics and supply chain. Gong also will be instrumental in the college’s collaboration with UWM’s Connected Systems Institute.
Gong’s areas of expertise include sustainable and resilient supply chain management, global logistics, applied operations research, and production-inventory systems analysis. In 2013, he was a member of the National University of Singapore team which won the grand prize (USD $1 million) in the Next Generation Container Port Challenge, organized by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore and the Singapore Maritime Institute.
Between 2000 and 2011, he was involved in Taiwan’s effort to become more competitive with business process re-engineering and IT-oriented commercial applications. He advised, reviewed or monitored more than 100 large-scale government-sponsored projects in industries including computer, telecommunications, electronics, automobile, mechanical and machine tools.
Gong first served as a visiting professor at UWM in the 2014/15 academic year and has been instrumental in the IME Department’s international collaborations with Chang Gung University and Chung Yuan Christian University in Taiwan.
“It is exciting to welcome Dr. Gong for a second time,” said Wilkistar Otieno, associate professor and chair of the IME Department. “He will fortify our instructional capacity while Dr. Petering is on sabbatical, and, most importantly, strengthen our research collaboration.”
Gong earned his PhD (1991) in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Contact Dah-Chuan Gong
Email: gongd@uwm.edu
Office: E371J