Wei Xu Email & Phone Number

Pennsylvania, United States

Process development for chemical manufacturing - Technology & engineering - Data analysis & DOE - Quality improvement - Cost reduction

Corning, NY

• Senior Manager, Process Simulation, December 2018 - Retired February 2024Manager, Process Simulation, April 2012 - November 2018
• Supervised FEA and CFD modeling teams and delivered critical technical solutions to multiple businesses, such as batch extrusion fluid flow simulation for the Environmental Technology, and plastics injection molding.
• Supervised FEA and CFD modeling teams and delivered critical technical solutions to multiple businesses, such as batch extrusion fluid flow simulation for the Environmental Technology, and plastics injection molding.
• Established and supervised development of modeling capabilities/teams and grew team leaders for fracture mechanics modeling, dynamic mechanics modeling, extrusion process simulation, injection molding modeling, and.
• Led thermomechanical modeling team and enabled development of new generation sheet size LCD glass cutting technology for the Display Technology business.
• Led FEA modeling team and supported auto interior glass cold forming technology development, reliability evaluation, and design optimization, which enabled hundreds of million dollars revenue of Auto Glass Solutions.

Houston, TX

• Performed transient proppant transport simulations of hydraulic fracturing led to value proposition adjustment of the company.
• Simulated gas-solid multiphase flow in fluidized bed, supported production capacity scale-up and provided guidelines to engineering team and saved multi-million dollars in cost.
• Supported optimization of ceramic product compositions utilizing DOE and data analysis.

Corning, NY, USA

• Development Associate, Sr. Project Engineer, July 2000 - August 2010
• Identified root cause and solved instability problem for large size LCD glass ribbon and optimized sheet separation process through 3D explicit dynamic analyses using LSDYNA, enabled start-up of manufacturing a new.
• Provided solution to structural instability of wet ceramic honeycomb substrates through LSDYNA explicit dynamic simulations and recommended… Show more Development Associate, Sr. Project Engineer, July 2000 - August 2010
• Provided solution to structural instability of wet ceramic honeycomb substrates through LSDYNA explicit dynamic simulations and recommended effective solutions which largely raised materials utilization and reduced.
• Innovated thermal and mechanical modeling and enabled successful delivery of technology development on glass sheet scoring and cutting using laser beams.
• Showed limitations of a newly proposed diesel filter design through thermal stress FEA modeling using ANSYS which led to decision of culminating the project so that resources could be applied to commercially successful.

Changzhou, Jiangsu, China

• Led a technical team and performed development, scale-up and engineering of industrial wastewater treatment using fixed-bed ion-exchange resin adsorption technology for multiple manufacturing plants. Proposed an.
• Taught Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, Chemical Reaction… Show more
• Taught Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Separation Processes, and Computation Algorithm for Chemical Engineering Problems. Show less

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Fiber & Polymer Science

Activities and Societies: Sigma Xi Dissertation: Development and Analysis of Three-Dimensionally Reinforced Cellular Matrix Composites

Master Of Science - Ms, Chemical Engineering

Master of Science thesis: Separation of Alcohol Aqueous Solutions by Pervaporation Membrane Process

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemical Engineering