Dr. Yi Wu is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. She received the B.S. in Mech-electrical Engineering in 1995 from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China. She earned both the M.E. and Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia in 2002 and 2004 respectively. Dr. Wu was a research and teaching assistant at the University of Virginia prior to her employment at Penn State Behrend.
Dr. Wu is a member of the American Society of Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO), the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). She received the First Scholarship from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China, 1991-1995 and the Progress Award from China Aerospace Corporation in 1997. She received the ASAIO’03 Biomedical Engineering Student Fellowship Award in 2003.