Shuwen Li
· Associate Professor of Instruction, Cook Family Writing ProgramUniversity of California, Berkeley · Chemical Engineering
Active 1970–2026
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About
Shuwen Li received her PhD in Rhetoric and Scientific & Technical Communication from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She has taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor for several years. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Instruction at the Cook Family Writing Program at Northwestern University. Her teaching includes courses such as English 282 (Writing and Speaking in Business) and DSGN 106 (Design Thinking and Communication). Her research interests encompass professional writing and communication, tactical technical communication, and technical writing pedagogy in intercultural contexts.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- Medicine
- Artificial Intelligence
- Structural engineering
- Political Science
- Machine Learning
- Construction engineering
- Applied mathematics
- Mathematics
Selected publications
Eighty Years of the Finite Element Method: Birth, Evolution, and Future
Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering · 2022 · 275 citations
Abstract This document presents comprehensive historical accounts on the developments of finite element methods (FEM) since 1941, with a specific emphasis on developments related to solid mechanics. We present a historical overview beginning with the theoretical formulations and origins of the FEM, while discussing important developments that have enabled the FEM to become the numerical method of choice for so many problems rooted in solid mechanics.
A Critical Review on Structural Health Monitoring: Definitions, Methods, and Perspectives
Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering · 2021 · 270 citations
Construction and Building Materials · 2020 · 186 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingArchives of Computational Methods in Engineering · 2025-03-18 · 17 citations
reviewOpen accessAbstract Even with the state-of-the-art technology of computer-aided design and topology optimization, the present structural design still faces the challenges of high dimensionality, multi-objectivity, and multi-constraints, making it knowledge/experience-demanding, labor-intensive, and difficult to achieve or simply lack of global optimality. Structural designers are still searching for new ways to cost-effectively to achieve a possible global optimality in a given structure design, in particu…
Thin-Walled Structures · 2025-03-10 · 15 citations
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Recent grants
Multiscale Simulation of Soft Contact and Cell Adhesion
NSF · $271k · 2008–2011
CAREER: Advance Meshfree Multiscale Methods
NSF · $399k · 2003–2008
Frequent coauthors
- 50 shared
Yunlan Su
Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 50 shared
Dujin Wang
Institute of Chemistry
- 34 shared
Wing Kam Liu
- 32 shared
Weilong Ju
Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences
- 25 shared
Guoming Liu
Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center
- 25 shared
Alejandro J. Müller
Ikerbasque
- 18 shared
Xiangning Wen
Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences
- 18 shared
Bo Ren
Education
- 1997
PhD, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern University
- 1994
Master of Science, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Science
University of Florida
- 1989
Master of Science, Department of Mechanics
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- 1982
Bachelor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
East China University of Science and Technology
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