Graduate Student Symposium
Speakers
Dr. Enrico Sciubba
Dr. Enrico Sciubba (born Roma 1949, M.Eng. Roma 1972, Ph.D. Rutgers, NJ 1981) is Professor of Turbomachinery & Energy Systems in the Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering of the University of Roma 1 “La Sapienza”.
He has held industrial positions in Europe and taught Thermal Sciences in the US and Europe. He holds two honorary Doctoral Degrees, from the U. of Galati and from Ovidius University (Romania).
His currently active research topics are the exergy analysis of complex systems; the CFD-aided optimization of energy-conversion components; the design and prototyping of ultra-micro gas-turbines for hybrid vehicles and as portable power generators, and the application of AI techniques to turbomachinery design. He has authored or co-authored 4 books (2 in english) and over 200 scientific papers: he has the highest h-index in his field among the Italian University professors. Professor Sciubba is an ASME Fellow and a member of several international Engineering Societies. He is also active in the ERASMUS Faculty and Student Exchanges. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Energies (www.mdpi.org.energies/), and Associate Editor for Energy, Int. J. of Thermodynamics, Int. J. of Energy Research and J. Energy Resource Technology
Dr Greg
Kowalski
Dr. Gregory J. Kowalski received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, is an ABET program evaluator for Mechanical Engineering programs and is a Fellow of ASME. He is active in thermodynamic and heat transfer research in nanoscale calorimetry using photonic sensors as well as thermal modeling of laser beam propagation in medical materials for improving imaging techniques and in laser welding of plastic materials. He has numerous publications in these fields. He has advised over 33 Masters and Ph.D students as well as advising international visiting scholars. His energy systems research includes developing tools for analyzing tri-generation system and their integration with renewable energy system, solar desalination and integrating second law measures in the sustainability measure and energy system design processes. He developed and directs the College of Engineering graduate program in Energy System Integration.
Dr. José Luis Fernández Zayas
He is an Electrical and Mechanical Engineer from the Engineering Department at UNAM and holds a PhD in Electro-hydrodynamic Fluids from the University of Bristol in England. He has established private centers for engineering design and has directed firms that produce electromechanical equipment.
Since 1975 he is Professor at the Engineering Department and Researcher at the Engineering Institute in UNAM. With the support of more than one hundred students, he has published 250 papers, books and conferences, and more than 30 books. He has directed more than 70 undergraduate and graduate theses.
He was the founding president of the National Association of Solar Energy (ANES), president of the Association for University Mechanical and Electricity Engineers (AIUME) and president of the Board Association of Applied Research and Technological Development (ADIAT).
He occupied the vice-presidency of International Affairs of the Mexican Union of Engineering Associations (UMAI) and was the general director of Scientific and Technological Research and Environment in the Ministry of Energy (SENER).
He directed the Engineering Institute at UNAM and was the president of the Engineering Academy (AI). He is currently the Energy Manager of the Science and Technology Program for Latin American Development (CYTED). He was also director of CONACYT’s National System of Researchers. He is currently the executive director of the Electric Power Research Institute.
Dr. John Lienhard V
John H. Lienhard V is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor and the Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab at MIT. During more than 28 years on the MIT faculty, Lienhard’s research and educational efforts have focused on heat and fluid flow, water purification and desalination, and experimentation. He has also filled a number of administrative roles at MIT. Lienhard received his bachelors and masters degrees in thermal engineering at UCLA from the Chemical, Nuclear, and Thermal Engineering Department. He joined MIT immediately after completing his PhD in the Applied Mechanics and Engineering Science Department at UC San Diego. Lienhard’s research on water purification has included humidification-dehumidification desalination, membrane distillation desalination, osmotic processes, solar-driven desalination, bubble columns, scale formation, electrodialysis, nanofiltration, management of high salinity brines, thermodynamic and energy efficiency analysis of desalination cycles, and energy-water nexus issues. Lienhard has directly supervised more than 75 graduate theses and postdoctoral associates.
Lienhard is a recipient of the 1988 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, the 1992 SAE Teetor Award, a 1997 R&D 100 Award, the 2012 ASME Globalization Medal, the 2015 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, and several teaching awards. He is also a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a Registered Professional Engineer. Lienhard and his students have received eight best paper awards for their desalination research over the past five years. He holds more than a dozen US Patents, many of which have been commercialized in the water industry. In addition, Lienhard has directed the Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy at MIT and KFUPM since it was founded in 2008 and MIT’s Rohsenow Kendall Heat Transfer Laboratory since 1997.
Dr. Eduardo Ramos
Dr. Eduardo Ramos received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Manchester in 1980 and is presently titular researcher at the Renewable Energy Institute of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He has been visiting scholar at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Texas at Austin an at the Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany. His professional interests include theoretical and experimental studies on fluid mechanics and heat transfer with applications to solving fundamental problems related to renewable energy utilisation. Specifically, he has conducted research in natural convection in rotating and non rotating confined enclosures with application to crystal growth. Also, he is collaborating in modelling central receivers for solar concentration systems that include simultaneous heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation. He has served as head of the Solar Energy Laboratory UNAM and head of the Thermosciences Department of the Center for Energy Research also of UNAM. He has advised 15 postgraduate dissertations and many of his former students are now professors in several universities throughout the country.
Dr. John Lienhard IV
John H. Lienhard, author and voice of The Engines of Our Ingenuity, is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and History at the University of Houston. He received BS and MS degrees from Oregon State College and the University of Washington, his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, and he holds two honorary doctorates. He is known for his research in the thermal sciences as well as in cultural history. He is an Honorary Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Lienhard’s engineering research fields have been fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and thermodynamics with special interests in phase change. His ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award recognizes his contributions to the hydrodynamic theory of boiling, as well as in thermodynamic properties of materials, flashing, cavitation, and applications of statistical thermodynamics to macroscopic systems.