Professor Jeffrey Ge celebrates 30 years with Stony Brook University
Professor Jeff Ge has been with the MEC department of Stony Brook University since 1993. During this
time, he has served as Undergraduate Program Director, Deputy Chair, Interim Chair,
and Chair. He guided the MECBE program through three successful ABET accreditations
and helped guide the SUNY Korea MEC program through its initial accreditation. He
also managed the challenges of explosive enrollment growth in MEC, after enrollments
doubled in the eight years from 2008 to 2015. During his leadership, the US News and
World Report Mechanical Engineering Ranking is up from #70 in 2019 to #50 in 2023.
Jeff is a Fellow of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) and served as
the chairs of the ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Committee and ASME Design Engineering
Division.
He was chair (2012-2016) of USCToMM (U.S. Committee for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms, one of 45 member organizations of IFToMM--the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanisms and Machine Science) and elected as Chair of the Constitution Committee of IFToMM (1999-2023). He has been co-editor of ASME Journal of Mechanical Design since 2021 and a founding member of ASME Robotics Technology Group since 2020. Recently, he received the ASME AT Yang Memorial Award in Theoretical Kinematics (2022) and the ASME Lifetime Achievement Award in Mechanisms and Robotics (2021). Very recently he proposed and received approval from ASME for the creation of a new Journal, ASME Letters in Translational Robotics.