after completing his doctorate, wang joined the california institute of technology's jet propulsion laboratory (jpl) in 1972, as a senior scientist. at jpl he was responsible for the inception and development of containerless processing science and technology research. he was the principal investigator (pi) on the spacelab 3 mission nasa drop dynamics (ddm) experiments, pi on the nasa spar flight experiment #77-18 "dynamics of liquid bubble," pi on the nasa spar flight experiment #76-20 "containerless processing technology," and pi on the department of energy experiment "spherical shell technology."