Felix Wu

Contact Information

NIST - Technology Innovation Program
Selection Management Office
100 Bureau Drive, MS 4750
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-4750

Telephone: (301) 975-4685
Fax: (301) 926-9524
E-mail: felix.wu@nist.gov

Secretary:  Michelle Beddow, (301) 975-8910
E-mail: michelle.beddow@nist.gov

Dr. H. Felix Wu holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University. He has 14 years work experience in industry and 11 years project/program management experience in Federal government, with broad-based expertise in high-performance fibers, polymers, composite materials/structures, and engineering mechanics. He joined the Advanced Technology Program (ATP), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a Program Manager in the Office of Chemistry and Life Sciences in July 1997. As a Program Manager, Dr. Wu has managed more than 50 ATP-funded R&D projects working with various industries including automotive, offshore exploration & production, civil infrastructure, nanotechnology, polymers, metals, ceramics, and biological sciences. He is a senior member of staff in the Office of Selection Management in the NIST Technology Innovation Program (TIP).

Prior to joining ATP, Dr. Wu was a Senior Project Leader at the Owens Corning Science and Technology Center, Granville, Ohio, where he conducted fundamental and applied research, and led R&D efforts in long-term durability, materials interfaces, mechanical behaviors, micromechanics, surface science, fiber forming and polymer processing of reinforcements and their composites. As a Senior Project Manager at the Alcoa Technical Center, Aluminum Company of America, Alcoa Center, Pennsylvania, Dr. Wu was the leader in the development of a new family of fiber-metal laminates (ARALL and GLARE). He conducted R&D programs and led R&D efforts in fiber-metal hybrid laminates, statistical/materials characterization, composite interfaces, quality assurance, and design allowable development for aerospace, automotive, and construction industries. Before that, Dr. Wu was a Mechanical/Design Engineer for Control Data Corporation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where he developed new electromechanical components for computer peripherals.

Dr. Wu has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University since 1999. He served an Advisory Committee member for two Ph.D. students in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1994-1997 and in the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at the Kansas State University in 1996-2001.

His specialties and research interests include fiber-reinforced composites, advanced materials, construction materials and processes, structural health monitoring, nanotechnology, homeland security, material processes/interfaces, damage tolerance/fracture, creep-rupture/lifetime prediction, environmental durability, biomaterials and biomedical devices. Dr. Wu has published a combination of more than 160 papers in scientific journals, technical conferences, and technical reports pertaining to his areas of interest. He is a U.S. Department of Commerce Science and Technology Fellow (ComSci) since 2003 and a Fellow of the Ohio Academy of Science since 2000.