Jeff Ge Recognized by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Professor Jeff Ge of the Department of Mechanical Engineering has received the Dedicated Service Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for his work for the society.

The Dedicated Service Award honors voluntary service to the society and recognizes “outstanding performance, demonstrated effective leadership, prolonged and committed service, devotion, enthusiasm, and faithfulness.” Ge received the honor at the 2024 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences held between August 25 and 28 in Washington, DC. 

“Jeff Ge was awarded the ASME Dedicated Service Award for his sustained contributions and visionary leadership in ASME’s Design Engineering Division, and Mechanisms and Robotics Executive Committees, and in support of the ASME Robotics community,” said Gloria Wiens, chair of ASME Robotics Technology Group that nominated Ge for the award. “Most recently, as a founding member of ASME’s Technical and Engineering Communities: Robotics Technology Group, Jeff took a lead role in the Group’s writing of the ASME Robotics Roadmap to be published this fall.”

Ge has participated and been elected to multiple committees within the organization, including the Executive Committee of the ASME Design Engineering Division (2015-2021) and the Committee Chair (2020). He has also served on the executive committee of ASME Mechanisms and Robotics for three years.

Beyond his committee service, Ge has also organized and chaired numerous technical sessions of the ASME conferences, including Mechanisms and Robotics in addition to Design Automation. 

Outside of his ASME society work, Ge has more than 160 peer-reviewed publications in both journals and conference proceedings. He is also credited as one of the first people to bring together the fields of kinematics and computational geometry.

Ge has previously been awarded for his dedicated work. Prior to this year, he received the ASME Dedicated Service Award in 2023. Additionally, Ge has been honored with the AT Yang Memorial Award for Theoretical Kinematics (2022) and the Mechanisms and Robotics Award (2021).

“I am honored and humbled by the award,” said Ge. “My association with the ASME Design Engineering Division started when I attended my first ASME Design Engineering Annual conference in 1990 as a graduate student. The ASME Design Engineering community has been my academic home since then, and I am deeply grateful for all the opportunities this community has given me, for my professional growth and the friends that I made along the way.”

Ge is a founding member of the ASME Technology Group on Robotics. He has been co-editor of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design since 2021 and is currently the inaugural editor-in-chief for the new ASME Journal, Letters in Translational Robotics.

— Angelina Livingi