| Year | Events |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Born in Chekiang, China (Oct. 28,1924) |
| 1945 | BS in Financial Administration, Jiao-Tong University, Shanghai |
| 1945 | Accountant, Hsing Hua Bank, Shanghai |
| 1948 | Taiwan Railroad station master in Taipei |
| 1954 | Arrival in Portland, Oregon, after 28-day ocean crossing |
| 1956 | MBA in Transportation, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1956 | Instructor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
He also earned his tuition as summer kitchen worker and locker-boy at Elmhurst Country Club |
| 1958 | BS in Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 1959 | Marriage to Daisy Te-Hsien Tsui |
| 1961 | Birth of Benjamin Wu |
| 1962 | Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, UW-M |
| 1962 | Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UW-M |
| 1963 | Birth of Elaine Wu |
| 1965 | Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Statistics |
| 1966 | Establishment of the Production Engineering Division at UW-M, 1st division chairman |
| 1967 | Development of the Dynamic Data System |
| 1968 | Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Statistics |
| 1968 | Charles J. Jennings Memorial Award, AWS
Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award, ASME |
| 1970 | Invited lecturer at the Toyal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and ETH, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1971 | Instrumental in establishment of the North America Manufacturing Research Conference
(The 1994 NAMRC was dedicated to Professor Wu) |
| 1972- | Application of personal teaching philosophy to engineering statistics courses. I.e., start from real applications, problems and tools needed, then process to theory |
| 1972-73 | Personal visits to nearly every engineering campus in all 50 states. These visits provided information on the “flavor” of a school, and enabled Prof Wu to better evaluate potential students and help place PhD graduates |
| 1974 | Society of Manufacturing Engineers National Education Award |
| 1975 | Fulbright-Hays Distinguished Professorship at the University of Zagreb and the University of Lublijana, Yugoslavia |
| 1976 | First visit in 20 years to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) |
| 1977 | University of Wisconsin Amoco Distinguished Teaching Award |
| 1978 | Development of the Precision Machining without Precision Machining Theory |
| 1979 | First production engineering delegation to the PRC. Led by Professor S.M. Wu Springer Visiting Professorship, University of California-Berkeley |
| 1981 | Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering with 40 researchers in his group |
| 1981 | Charles Russ Richars Award, ASME and P. Tau Sigma |
| 1982 | Elected member, Academia Sinica, Taiwan |
| 1983 | Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
| 1983 | Coauthored book: Time-series and systems analysis with applications by S.M.Pandit and S.M. Wu |
| 1986 | Appointed J. Reid and Polly Anderson Professor of Manufacturing Technology, University of Michigan, College of Engineering |
| 1986 | Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers |
| 1987 | Establishment of the Manufacturing Research Laboratory at Michigan |
| 1988 | Fulbright-Hays Distinguished Professorship in the U.S.S.R |
| 1989 | Initiation of extensive work in auto industry, following decades of successful collaborations with paper mills, machine tools, and various other manufacturing industries |
| 1990 | Establishment of a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center at Michigan; first center director |
| 1991 | First recipient of the Chiang Technology Achievement Award (The Chinese “Nobel Prize” in Manufacturing Engineering). Professor and Mrs. Wu donated the Award’s$100,000 stipend to the College of Engineering, establishing an endowed fund that helps support manufacturing engineering students and their research. |
| 1992 | University of Michigan Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award |
| 1992 | Passed away on Oct. 28, 1992 |
