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NEWARK, March 5--New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has appointed Patrick Y. Yang, Ph.D., of Lebanon, vice president for materials, management and management engineering in the Merck Manufacturing Division of Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, to the NJIT Board of Overseers. The NJIT Board of Overseers works to give the university national and international recognition by supporting and encouraging research, establishing fellowships and scholarships and facilitating fund-raising for the benefit of the university’s academic programs. Yang joined Merck in 1992 as executive director for automation and information technology. He was soon promoted to vice president of procurement and materials management and became responsible for Merck’s global procurement, materials management, production planning, distribution and new products planning. In 1997, he was promoted to vice president of Merck’s Asia/Pacific Manufacturing Operations where his responsibilities included overseeing the creation and construction of a $600 million pharmaceutical chemical plant in Singapore. He also was in charge of Merck’s manufacturing and licensee operations in the Asia/Pacific. In mid-2000, he became vice president of business process engineering for Merck. In this position, he was accountable for the corporate-wide operational excellence initiative designed to maximize the company's business process and organizational quality, responsiveness, effectiveness and efficiency. He was appointed in November, 2001, to his present position accountable for Merck’s global procurement, supply chain management, new products planning, distribution, logistics, product sourcing, business process improvement, divisional learning and training, and manufacturing automation and information systems. Yang has also worked as a principal research engineer for Life Systems, Inc., Cleveland, as a program manager for NASA and served on bio-medical research projects for the Department of Defense. In 1980, Yang won a NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center group achievement award for his innovation for the closed-loop regenerative life support systems automation development project for long duration orbiters. Yang worked for General Electric (GE) for 12 years before coming to Merck. His last GE assignment was heading its worldwide automotive lighting engineering operation. In that role, he was responsible for product development, process engineering and manufacturing engineering for GE’s automotive lamp business. Yang has a doctorate in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the Ohio State University, a bachelor’s degree from National Chiaotung University, Taiwan, and an MSEE from the University of Cincinnati. Yang is a member of Phi Beta Tau. He is also a member of an advisory board for the University of Michigan. NJIT is a public, scientific and technological research university enrolling
more than 8,800 students. The university offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees to students
in 80 degree programs throughout its six colleges: Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey School
of Architecture, College of Science and Liberal Arts, School of Management, Albert Dorman Honors
College and College of Computing Sciences. The division of continuing professional education offers
adults eLearning, off campus degrees and short courses. Expertise and research initiatives include
architecture and building science, applied mathematics, biomedical engineering, environmental
engineering and science, information technology, manufacturing, materials, microelectronics,
multimedia, telecommunications, transportation and solar astrophysics. Yahoo! Internet
Life magazine cites NJIT as a "perennially most wired" university.
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