Dr. Zhenghui Sha, is selected as the awardee of the prestigious American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2017 Best Ph.D. Dissertation of the Year Award for his dissertation entitled “Decision-Centric Foundations for Complex Systems Engineering and Design“.  His PhD is advised by Dr. Jitesh H. Panchal from Purdue University.

The ASME Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Division has presented the award in recognition of “a promising young investigator who authored the best Ph.D thesis of the year in the area of computers and information in engineering“. To ensure that it is presented to appropriately qualified recipients and to maintain the prestigious nature of the award it may not be presented every year. The award is presented on the ASME IDETC/CIE 2017.