OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Guest Professor
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mechanics, since 2000
Northwest Polytechnic University (China), since 2001
Beijing Institute of Technology (China), since 2003
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (China), since 2003
Chiba University (Japan), since 2008
Harbin Institute of Technology (China), since 2009

News Media Coverage
The New York Times: February 11, 2003
The Christian Science Monitor: February 18, 2003
USA Today: April 14, 2003
The Orlando Sentinel: February 2, 2003
The Miami Herald: February 6, 2003
The St. Petersburg Times: March 10, 2003; April 13, 2003
The Gainesville Sun: February 2, 2003
The St. Paul Pioneer Press: July 13, 2005
Minneapolis WCCO: July 13, 2005
The Science Daily: 2008
Yahoo
MSNBC 2008
Newhouse News Service 2008
The Austrian Public Radio: February 26, 2009
The US News & World Report: April 22, 2009
February 18, 2011: 訪科大首席副校長史維
May 19, 2011: 遠見雜誌 - 華人高等教育論壇
May 19, 2011: 遠見雜誌 - 華人高等教育論壇
May 19, 2011: 遠見雜誌 - 華人高等教育論壇
May 19, 2011: 遠見雜誌 - 華人高等教育論壇
Interview with Prof Wei Shyy on aerospace development (Wen Wei Po) July 6, 2011.

Featured Speaker in Short Courses
AIAA Short Course on Computational Methods in Combustion: Gas Turbines, Ramjets, and Scramjets (two-day course):
(i)July 1990, Orlando, FL; (ii)June 1993, Monterey, CA. 
Short Course on Computational Fluid Dynamics for Internal and Reacting Flows, Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology, Taiwan:
(i)March 1992 (one-week course, in Lungtan); (ii)June 1993 (two-week course, in Taichung). 
Short Course on Computational Fluid Dynamics, Michigan, June 2000. 
Short Course on Numerical Code Verification, Lyon, France, July 2001. 

Invited/Keynote/Plenary Lectures Since 2000
2000: (i) University of Pennsylvania; (ii) National High Performance Computing Center (Taiwan); (iii) 7th Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference (Taiwan); (iv) National Tsing-Hua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan); (v) Tsing-Hua University (Beijing, China); (vi) 13th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods (France); (vii) 2nd International Symposium on Fluid Machinery and Fluid Engineering in Beijing (China). 
2001: (i) Northwest Polytechnic University (China); (ii) Beijing Institute of Technology (China); (iii) University of Lyon (France); (iv) Short Course on Code Verification in Lyon (France). 
2002: (i) National Seoul University (Korea), (ii) Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST); (iii) Inha University (Korea); (iv) 4th International Conference on Pumps and Fans (China); (v) Bauman Moscow State University (Russia); (vi) International Conference on Computational Engineering & Sciences (Reno, NV); (vii) University of Southampton (UK); (viii) Workshop on Aerodynamics of Unmanned Air Vehicles in University of Bath (UK).
2003: (i) 3rd International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer in Banff (Canada); (ii) Confederation of European Aerospace Societies Aerodynamics Conference, (London, UK); (iii) Second International Symposium on Aqua Bio-Mechanisms, Honolulu (USA); (iv) Tsing-Hua University (China); (v) Beijing Institute of Technology (China); (vi) Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (China). 
2004: (i) The University of Michigan; (ii) University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign); (iii) Vanderbilt University; (iv) Iowa State University; (v) Ohio Aerospace Institute. 
2005: (i) CFD 2005 - 4th International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Oil and Gas, Metallurgical & Process Industries, 6 - 8 June, 2005, Trondheim, Norway; (ii) Tsing-Hua University (Beijing, China); (iii) Invited panelist at the Joint Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force (JANNAF) Joint Propulsion Meeting (JPM) Plenary Session, December 6 in Monterey, CA. 
2006: (i) Beihang University (Beijing, China); (ii) Third International Symposium on Aqua Bio-Mechanisms, Okinawa (Japan); (iii) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. 
2007: (i) 5th International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer (Canmore, Canada); (ii) 14th Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference (Taiwan). 
2008: (i) 46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting (Reno, NV); (ii) International Symposium on Biomimetics, Micro Air Vehicles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Unmanned Vehicles (Chiba University, Japan); (iii) 18th Conference on Combustion Science and Technology (Taiwan); (iv) MIT; (v) Stanford University. 
2009: (i) Tsing-Hua University (Beijing); (ii) Harbin Institute of Technology; (iii) Technical University of Delft; (iv) ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference & Exhibit (panelist). 
2010: (i) 50th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences (plenary lecturer); (ii) Technical University of Delft; (iii) 2010 ONR-AFOSR Bio-inspired Autonomous Systems Review;(iv) Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) annual meeting; (v) 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned System, Bali, Indonesia.
2011: (i) Asian Aerospace Expo and Congress, March; (ii) ASME/JSME 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, March 13-17, Honolulu, Hawaii; (iii) 遠見雜誌 - 華人高等教育論壇, May 18, Taipei; (iv) The 6th International Conference on Fluid Mechanics, June 30 to July 3, Guangzhou, China; (v) The Second International Conference on Computational Methods for Thermal Problems, September 5-7, Dalian, China; (vi) 11th International Conference on Fluid Control, Measurements, and Visualization, Keelung, Taiwan, December 5-9.
2012: (i) The Asian Joint Conference on Propulsion and Power 2012, Xi'an, China, March 1-4; (ii) Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, Aircraft Division 1st Annual General Meeting, June 7; (iii) Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, July 23-24; (iv) 8th International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned System, Singapore, October 22-24; (v) 5th ISFMFE (International Symposium on Fluid Machinery and Fluids Engineering), Jeju, Korea, October 24-27; (vi) Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, December 7-8.
2013: (i) Workshop on Droplet Dynamics and Interfacial Physics in Micro Devices, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, January 15; (ii) Royal Aeronautical Society, Hong Kong, February 25.

Recent Activities in Organizing Professional Conferences (as a member/chair of scientific/advising/organizing committee)
3rd International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer, Banff, Canada, May 5-9, 2003.
15th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena (ISTP-15) May 9-15, 2004 in Bangkok
International Conference on Thermal Engineering Theory and Applications, May 31-June 4, 2004, Beirut, Lebanon. 
3rd International Symposium on Fluid Machinery and Fluid Engineering (ISFMFE) August 28-31, 2004, Beijing, China. 
4th International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer, Paris, France, May 2005. 
5th International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer, June 18-22, 2007, Canmore, Canada. 
MAV07, September 17-21, 2007, Toulouse, France. 
2nd US-France Symposium of the International Center for Applied Computational Mechanics, May 28-30, 2008, Rocamadour, France.
6th International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Oil & Gas, Metallurgical and Process Industries June 10-12 2008 Trondheim, Norway. 
EMAV (The European Micro Aerial Vehicle Conference and Flight Competition), September 14-17, 2009, Delft, The Netherlands. 
Seventh International Conference on Computational Physics(ICCP7) May 2010, Beijing, China. 
Asian Aerospace Expo and Congress, March 2011, Hong Kong.
The 6th International Conference on Fluid Mechanics, June 30 to July 3, 2011, Guangzhou, China.
The International Micro Air Vehicle (IMAV) conference and flight competitions, September 12-15, 2011, The Netherlands.
The 26th IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, Beijing, Aug. 19-23, 2012.
The 5th ISFMFE (International Symposium on Fluid Machinery and Fluids Engineering), Oct. 24-27, 2012, Jeju island, Korea.
4th Annual International Conference in Computational Surgery, The Joseph Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, December 9-10-11, 2012.
The 4th Asian Symposium on Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (ASCHT), Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, June 3-6, 2013.

Editorship
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Aerospace Book Series: General Editor (2000-present)
ASME Applied Mechanics Reviews: Associate Editor (2002-2010)
Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences: Associate Editor (2002-2004)
Acta Mechanica Sinica: Associate Editor(2004-2007); Co-Editor-in-Chief (2008-present)
Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering: Co-Editor-in-Chief (2007-present)
Communications in Computational Physics: Associate Editor (2009-present)

Member of Editorial Boards
Progress in Aerospace Sciences
Numerical Heat Transfer: An International Journal of Computation and Methodology (Part A: Applications, Part B: Fundamentals)
Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics: An International Journal
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Heat and Fluid Flow
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
Chinese Journal of Aeronautics
Transactions of the Aeronautical and Astronautical Society of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Frontiers of Energy and Power Engineering in China
International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
Journal of Computational Surgery

Professional Societies
Fellow: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Member: American Physical Society (APS), The Combustion Institute, Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Society).

Selected Summary of Professional Services
NASA Consortium of Computational Fluid Dynamics for Propulsion Design (1990-1994)
ASME Heat Transfer Division, Aerospace Heat Transfer (K-12) Committee (since 1994)
National Science Foundation (Committee of Visitors, 1997)
Director of NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium (1998-2000)
University of Florida Presidential Search Advisory Committee (1999)
APS Fluid Dynamics Prize Selection Committee (Vice Chair, 1999-2000; Chair, 2000-2001)
AIAA Pendray Literature Award Selection Committee (2003-2008)
Universities Space Research Association (USRA) International Working Group (2003-2004)
Air Force Research Laboratory- Air Vehicles Directory Awards Selection Committee (2005)
University of Michigan College of Engineering Dean’s Search Advisory Committee (2005)
Referee of the State Natural Science Award of the People's Republic of China (2006)
Panelist of National Research Council’s Space Studies Board: Committee on Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration (2006)
External Advisory Council, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alabama, Birmingham (2006 – present)
University of Michigan Department of Mechanical Engineering Chair Search Advisory Committee (2007)
External Advisory Committee of Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Washington (2007-present)
Naval Research Laboratory External Review Panelist of Materials and Chemistry Technology S&T Program (2008)
School of aerospace Engineering, Technical University of Delft: International Peer Review Committee (2008)
Department of Mechanical Engineering Academic Advisory Committee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2009 - 2010)
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology: Global Advisory Board (2011)
Member of Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan, for National Taiwan University (December 2011)
Member of Board of Directors, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks (July 2012)

Faculty Tenure/Promotion/Appointment Reviewer
Brown University, Cornell University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Mississippi State University, National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan), Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Princeton University, Purdue University, Rutgers University, Tel-Aviv University, Texas A&M University, University of California (Irvine, Davis, Santa Barbara), University of Cambridge, University of Central Florida, University of Colorado, University of Florida, University of Iowa, University of Maryland, University of Massachusetts, University of Miami (Florida), University of Tennessee, University of Toronto.

Patent
Shyy, W., Francois, M., and Chung, J. N., 2003, U.S. Patent No. 6,598,409: Thermal Management Device.