Prof. Ming-Wei Wu is a professor in the Department of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan. Prof. Wu earned his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at National Taiwan University in 2007. He was a visiting PhD student at the Institute of Materials Science and Technology, Technical University of Berlin, Germany, in 2006. Prof. Wu was previously an R&D engineer at Solar Applied Materials Technology Corporation in 2008 and 2009. He held an academic position at National Formosa University between 2010 and 2013 before joining National Taipei University of Technology in 2014.
His research fields are the sintering and processing of metallic and ceramic powders. Within these fields, he mainly focuses on three topics: (1) sintering and the mechanical properties of various powder metallurgy steels, (2) anisotropies in the microstructure and mechanical properties of selective laser melted Ti alloys, and (3) sintering and the electrical properties of ZnO-based and TiO2-based sputtering targets for transparent conductive films. His areas of expertise include powder metallurgy, sintering theory, microstructural characterization, mechanical properties, and fracture analysis 
Prof. Wu has published more than 100 articles (journal, conference, and proceedings), including 9 papers in Materials Science and Engineering A, 7 papers in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, , 3 papers in Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 2 papers in Materials and Design, 3 papers in Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 4 papers in Ceramics International, etc.  Furthermore, Prof. Wu was awarded the Marcus A. Grossmann Young Author Award by ASM International in 2016.

The development direction of the Powder Metallurgy and Sintering Laboratory focuses on the study of sintering behavior, microstructure and various properties of metal and ceramic powders. The laboratory's existing main equipment includes a vacuum high-temperature sintering furnace (1500°C) , Tubular atmosphere sintering furnace (1250℃), atmospheric box sintering furnace (1700℃), laser light scattering powder particle size analyzer, powder ball mill, 50-ton hydraulic forming machine, specific gravity balance, Brookfield viscometer, optical microscope, Thermo-Calc thermodynamic simulation software, etc., are also currently building other instruments required for powder and sintering research. The aforementioned equipment, coupled with the materials analysis, mechanical property testing, physical property analysis, material processing and other equipment of the department and cooperative units, will be very beneficial to the research and development of various metal and ceramic materials.