Prof. Dr. Sheldon Wang is a tenured Full Professor at McCoy School of Engineering at Midwestern State University (MSU), a Texas Tech University System member. He received his B.S. in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (1988), his M.S. in Ocean Engineering (1993), and his Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics (1995) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Subsequently, he has worked in the Institute of Paper Science and Technology (currently, Renewable Bioproducts Institute at Georgia Tech), Polytechnic University (currently, Tandon School of Engineering at New York University), and Department of Mathematical Sciences at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) as a faculty member before joining MSU in 2009 as the Chair and Professor of McCoy School of Engineering. His research interests include computational fluid and solid mechanics, fluid-solid interactions, and quantitative modeling of complex dynamical systems.
Fellow
ASME
March 2023
Certificate of Appreciation
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB)
August 2011
Award of Appreciation
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB)
November 21, 2013, for Outstanding Leadership on the "Turning Texas" Initiative
2009 Air Force Fellow
US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Summer Faculty Fellow Program (SFFP)
2008 Air Force Fellow
US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Summer Faculty Fellow Program (SFFP)