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彭晖教授生平回顾

密西根大学机械工程系教授彭晖于2022年11月17日在台北去世。这对我们来说是一个出乎意料的悲剧性的损失。

2016 年至 2021 年，彭晖教授 担任 密西根大学Mcity研究中心主任 ，研究互联和自动驾驶汽车技术及其运用。在他的领导下，Mcity 从一家测试机构发展成为与来自公共、私营和学术部门的合作伙伴开展全面研究合作的机构。他的研究重点是自适应控制和最优控制，重点是它们在车辆和运输系统中的应用。他的最新研究包括电动汽车和互联/自动驾驶汽车的设计和控制。

在过去的 10 年里，他参与了多款军用和民用概念车的电动和液压混合概念车的设计。他曾担任美国能源部赞助的清洁能源研究中心——清洁汽车联盟主任，该联盟支持30多个与清洁汽车发展相关的研究项目。

他曾担任超过 65 个研究项目的 PI 或联合 PI，撰写了 300 多篇技术出版物，其中 150 篇发表在参考期刊中，还有四本书。据 Research.com 称，他是美国 25 位顶级机械和航空航天工程科学家之一。

彭晖教授 是一位创新者，他奠定了集成系统 + 设计部门赖以建立的基础的关键部分。他相信通过选择具有影响力的创新研究课题来设定高期望并帮助学生超越这些期望。他最引以为豪的成就之一是他一半以上的博士生，每人都至少发表了一篇被引用100次以上的论文。

在过去的 30 年里，彭晖教授在机械工程以及自动驾驶领域的奉献和工作是无与伦比的，他总是给人一种和善的感觉。人们将永远怀念他。让我们一起向 彭晖教授的亲人表达我们的思念和祈祷。

Remembering Professor Huei Peng

It is with deep sadness that Huei Peng, Roger L. McCarthy Professor of Mechanical Engineering, passed away on November 17, 2022, while in Taipei, Taiwan. This is a tragic loss for us, and unexpected.

Between 2016 and 2021, Huei served as the Director of Mcity, which studies connected and autonomous vehicle technologies and promotes their deployment. Under his leadership, Mcity grew from a test facility to a full-fledged research collaboration with partners from the public, private and academic sectors. His research focused on adaptive control and optimal control, with emphasis on their applications to vehicular and transportation systems. His latest research included design and control of electrified vehicles and connected/automated vehicles.

In the last 10 years, he was involved in the design of several military and civilian concept vehicles for both electric and hydraulic hybrid concepts. He served as the US Director of the Department of Energy sponsored Clean Energy Research Center—Clean Vehicle Consortium, which supports more than 30 research projects related to the development of clean vehicles. 

He served as the PI or co-PI of more than 65 research projects and authored more than 300 technical publications, including 150 in referred journals and transactions and four books. According to Research.com, he was among the 25 Top Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Scientists in the United States.

Huei was an innovator who laid key portions of the foundation that the Integrative Systems + Design division is built upon. He believed in setting high expectations and helping students to exceed them by selecting innovative research topics with high impact. One of his proudest achievements was that more than half of his Ph.D. students have each published at least one paper cited more than 100 times.

Huei’s dedication and work in the Mechanical Engineering department and at Mcity over the last 30 years were unparalleled and he always had such a kind presence about him. He will be dearly missed.

A loss in our community, especially an unexpected loss, has the potential to affect many of us in ways that are direct and indirect. Such a loss may bring forth difficult emotions and may remind us of previous situations that are difficult.

Please join us in sending our thoughts and prayers to Huei’s loved ones.