Every other year since 1995, this endowment invites one internationally recognized researcher in the general field of manufacturing science and engineering to the University of Michigan to deliver a distinguished lecture and to interact with graduate students and researchers at the S. M. Wu Manufacturing Research Center.
The Wu Foundation has sponsored the
following Distinguished Lectureships:
- 1995, Professor Karl J. Astrőm, Lunds Universitet, Lund, Sweden
- 1997, Professor Gűnter Spur, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- 1999, Professor Toshio Sata, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- 2003, Professor Richard DeVor, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- 2005, Professor George Tiao, Universitet of Chicago, USA
The Wu Foundation has also co-sponsored the following Distinguished Lectureship with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, which is the alma mater of the late Professor Shien-Ming Wu:
- 2000, Professor Shiv Kapoor, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- 2001, Professor Yoshiaki Kakino, Kyoto University, Japan
- 2003, Professor Jun Ni, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA