Part-time faculty

Mr. Yongquan (Joe) Zhou
Lecturer

B.Engrg., Wuxi Institute of Light Industry
M.Engrg., Wuxi Institute of Light Industry
M.S., Rochester Institute of Technology CPP

E-mail: yzhou@fedex.com

Yongquan Zhou is a project engineer in Packaging Design and Development at FedEx Corp. and is an adjunct faculty for the School of Engineering at CBU. He received his B.E. in packaging engineering and M.E. in mechanical engineering from the Wuxi Institute of Light Industry (now Southern Yangtze University) in China, and his M.S. in packaging science from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is currently working on his Ph.D. in computational engineering at Mississippi State University's National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center. Mr. Zhou is a Certified Packaging Professional (CPP) with more than 20 years of experience in the packaging industry, academic classrooms, and research and testing laboratories. He specializes in packaging dynamics, distribution environments, transport packaging development, package testing standards, equipment and systems, and computer simulation.

Mr. Zhou serves on various IoPP, ASTM, and ISTA technical committees, and was an IoPP AmeriStar Packaging Competition judge from 1997 to 2001. He has given presentations for the IoPP TransPack, International Molded Pulp Environmental Packaging Association (IMPEPA) annual seminars, RIT Packaging Alumni Association, Memphis-Area Engineering and Sciences Conference (MAESC), ISTA IoPP Dimensions, and ISTA International Transit Packaging Symposium in Asia. He has published articles in Packaging Technology and Engineering and other magazines.