Percy Wang, NVH Specialist, Joins the Engineering Division at Southern Research Institute

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 12 -- Southern Research Institute today announced that Percy Wang, Ph.D., has joined the Engineering Division of Southern Research Institute to direct its Noise and Vibration research programs.

"The growing southeastern U.S. automotive manufacturing market is demanding more easily accessible NVH testing," said Michael D. Johns, vice president of the Engineering Division. "Dr. Wang's years of experience in NVH source identification and problem solving will not only benefit Southern Research clients, but also signals the growth in the expertise of talent moving to the South to support this industry."

Before joining Southern Research, Dr. Wang was an NVH specialist in the NVH group for Chrysler Trucks in Detroit. There he solved boom noise problems for the RAM truck and successfully developed a portable torsional signal processor utilizing high speed data acquisition electronics and MATLAB code for detecting power train torsional problems. Previously, as an NVH specialist for Visteon Climate Control in Plymouth, Michigan, he led the NVH special task force with Nissan engineers to solve critical climate control quality issues, as well as work with colleagues to submit 10 inventions to Visteon for various product improvements.

For three years, he was a technology consultant in Rochester, Michigan, where he development a control circuit for 3D Volumetric Visualization Device, conducted data acquisition and analysis in high frequency radio signals, and improved the parabolic reflector design for a large Asian manufacturer. For five years, Dr. Wang was the senior NVH engineer with Delphi Automotives in Lockport, New York. He was responsible for developing math-based tools to model/predict NVH of subsystem, and completed the Compressor Defect Detection study, using artificial intelligence algorithms.

Dr. Wang earned a Bachelor's degree in Power Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis on automatic control systems from the National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan in 1985. For two years, he served as a sergeant in the Ammunition Logistics Company of the Taiwan Marine Corps. He went on to earn his Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he focused on robotic computer simulation and computer aided design. He worked on projects with General Dynamics as an engineering assistant at the Automation and Robotics Research Institute in Fort Worth, Texas.

In 1994, he then earned his Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, where he focused mainly on torsional vibration measurement and automobile interior noise modeling. During that time, he worked as a graduate research assistant for both Ford Motor Company and Isuzu Motors in West Lafayette. Dr. Wang has authored and co-authored 14 publications on the subject of noise, vibration and harshness.

About Southern Research Institute

Southern Research, an independent center for scientific research, provides contract research in the fields of aerospace engineering, transportation, environmental and energy-related research as well as preclinical drug discovery and drug development. Southern Research has engineering facilities in Birmingham, Ala., and Research Triangle Park, N.C. For more information about the Engineering Division, please visit http://www.southernresearch.org/.