Wan is a core faculty member of the Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Lean Systems (CAMLS), Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the Advanced Manufacturing and Enterprise Engineering master’s program (MS-AMEE) at UTSA. He conducts research and teaches courses and training programs in Lean Six Sigma area and has been an active member of the Operational Excellence (formerly “Lean”) Division of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE).
Wan has received Best Lean Teaching Award of IISE in 2016 and several Best Paper Awards from Engineering Lean & Six Sigma Conference (2019), Lean Systems Track of IISE Conference (2013), and American Society of Engineering Education – Gulf Southwest Annual Conference (2015, 2019). Wan holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech.”