Prof. Jie Sun received his B.S. degree in Mechanization of Farming from the College of Electromechanical Engineering, Laiyang Agricultural College (now Qingdao Agricultural University), in 1990; his M.S. degree in Mechanical Manufacturing and Automation from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University of Technology (now Shandong University), in 1998; and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2004. He began his professional career as an Assistant Engineer at Laiyang Chemical Machinery Factory (now Shandong Huayuan Laidong Engine Co., Ltd.) from 1990 to 1993. He then joined the College of Electromechanical Engineering at Laiyang Agricultural College, serving as Lecturer and Associate Professor from 1993 to 2000. Since 2004, Prof. Sun has been with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Shandong University, where he is currently a Professor. He also spent 2006–2007 as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Alabama, USA.