Faculty Directory
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Cahit Evrensel Kwang J. Kim Faramarz Gordaninejad Miles Greiner Yanyao Jiang |
Shen-Yi Luo Brad Snyder Jonghwan Suhr Eric Wang Richard Wirtz |
Kwang J. Kim
Chair and Professor
Department Chair and Professor - Mechanical Engineering Dept
FAX: (775)784-1701
E-mail: kwangkim@unr.edu
URL: http://wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/kwangkim/
Address: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MS 312; University of Nevada, Reno; Reno, NV 89557
Kwang J. (Jin) Kim is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department and Director of Active Materials and Processing Laboratory (AMPL) at University of Nevada, Reno. He is also serving as the Department Chair. He graduated from Yonsei University, Korea, in 1987 and received his MS and Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 1989 and 1992, respectively. Later, he completed a postdoctoral study at Center for Environmental Energy Engineering (CEEE) of University of Maryland-College Park (1993-1995). His industrial experience includes Thermal Electric Devices, Inc. (1995-1997) and Environmental Robots, Inc. (1997-2001), Albuquerque NM. His research and teaching interests are broad based, but mainly in Active Materials/Sensors, Thermal Sciences/Energy Systems, and Nanotechnology. He has published over 140 technical papers and holds 2 patents. He is a recipient of the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities and the Best Paper Award of ASME/Advanced Energy Systems/HPTC. His research has been supported by a number of agencies including NSF, NASA, DOD (Navy, Air Force, and Army), and private industries.
Cahit Evrensel
Associate Professor
PH: (775) 784-6093FAX: (775)784-1701
E-mail: cahit@unr.edu
Address: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MS 312; University of Nevada, Reno; Reno, NV 89557
Relevant past experience: Assoc. professor, graduate training program in biomechanical engineering, UNR (current); research scientist, Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey.
Faramarz Gordaninejad
UNR Foundation Professor
PH: (775) 784-6990FAX: (775)784-1701
E-mail: faramarz@unr.edu
URL: http://web.me.unr.edu/ciml
Address: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MS 312; University of Nevada, Reno; Reno, NV 89557
Dr. Faramarz Gordaninejad, received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. His research focus is on theoretical and experimental methods in materials, mechanics, structures, heat transfer, and structural control. His teaching interest is in the general area of mechanics of materials. He has more than 200 publications, and 7 U.S. patents. He has managed many research projects from government agencies and leading industry, such as the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Army Research Office, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Department of Energy, Northrop Grumman, Holland, Visteon, Texaco, Boeing, and Equilon.
Dr. Gordaninejad is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a UNR Foundation Professor, and the Director of Composite and Intelligent Materials Laboratory at UNR. Dr. Gordaninejad is the recipient of the 2006 UNR Outstanding Researcher Award. He received the Rudolf W. Gunnerman Silver State Award for Scientific Excellence in 2003, UNR Lemenson Award for Innovation in Research in 1998, and NSF Research Initiation Award in 1989. Dr. Gordaninejad is an American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fellow, a UNR Foundation Professor, and the Director of Composite and Intelligent Materials Laboratory at UNR. Dr. Gordaninejad received the Rudolf W. Gunnerman Silver State Award for Scientific Excellence in 2003, UNR Lemenson Award for Innovation in Research in 1998, and NSF Research Initiation Award in 1989.
Miles Greiner
Professor
PH: (775) 784-4873FAX: (775)784-1701
E-mail: greiner@me.unr.edu
Website: http://equinox.unr.edu/homepage/greiner
Address: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MS 312; University of Nevada, Reno; Reno, NV 89557
Miles Greiner received his Ph.D. in 1986 from MIT where he helped develop the concept of hydrodynamic resonance. He joined the faculty of the University of Nevada, Reno that same year and is currently Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He has taught graduate and undergraduate thermal science courses, engineering mathematics, freshman design, and has developed innovative, low cost methods of teaching instrumentation and experimentation. He was recognized as a Senior Mentor in 1989 and 2001.
He has written extensively about channel topographies and flow conditions that enhance single-phase heat transfer at low Reynolds numbers without increasing pumping power. Experiments and simulations have documented the development and decay of normally dormant two-dimensional Tollmien-Schlichting waves, and the subsequent development of three-dimensional mixing. These works have led to a basic understanding of flows in which heat transfer augmentation is not coupled with increased pumping power. The National Science Foundation, the Gas Research Institute, and the United Technologies Research Center have funded this work.
Professor Greiner has also performed large-scale experiments and computational studies of heat transfer to massive objects engulfed in pool fires. This work has focused on the interaction between fires, the surrounding wind conditions and the engulfed object. It has led to an understanding of the radiation properties of fires as well as the accuracy of inverse conduction techniques used to measure heat flux in fires. He has used this work as a basis to estimate the response of truck and rail sized nuclear waste transport packages under severe accident conditions. The Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories, the Nevada Nuclear Waste Project Office, and Innovative Technologies Solutions Corporation have funded this work. He has also advised the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the State of Nevada on nuclear waste package testing. On July 28, 2005 he received an award for co-authoring the Outstanding Operations, Applications, and Components Technical Paper at the 2003 ASME Pressure Vessel and Piping Conference based on work he performed in this area.
In addition to these topics, Dr. Greiner has performed proprietary research in the areas of gas turbine engine film cooling for Pratt Whitney, and advanced hydrogen reformer design for Hydrogen Burner Technologies Corporation.
Yanyao Jiang
Associate Professor
PH: (775) 784-4510FAX: (775)784-1701
E-mail: yjiang@unr.edu
Address: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MS 312
University of Nevada, Reno; Reno, NV 89557
Yanyao Jiang received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993. He joined the UNR faculty in 1996. From 1993 to 1996, he was a research engineer in a material research laboratory at University of Illinois.
Dr. Jiang's research interests include Fatigue and Fracture of Materials and Structures, Inelastic Constitutive Relations, Rolling Contact Stress and Fatigue Analyses, Multiaxial Deformation and Fatigue, Thermo-Mechanical Behaviors, Shape Memory Alloys under Cyclic Thermo-Mechanical Loading, Multiaxial Fatigue-Creep at High Temperature, and Durability of Material Systems.
Dr. Jiang is the author/co-author of more than fifty archive journal papers in the general area of applied mechanics. He was the recipient of the Humboldt Foundation Bessel Research Award (2006), NSF CAREER Award (2000), Ford University Research Program Award (1999), and China NSF Outstanding Oversea Chinese Scholars(2005). He is a member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Plasticity.
Shen-Yi Luo
Associate Professor
Phone: (775) 784-1456FAX: (775)784-1701
E-mail: luo@unr.edu
Address: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MS 312; University of Nevada, Reno; Reno, NV 89557
Research/Outreach areas: Theoretical modeling and experimental characterization of composite materials; nonlinear multi-axial stress analysis; computational structural analysis.
Relevant past experience: Visiting Scientist Center for Composite Materials; engineer Shanghai Institute of Building Science.
Brad Snyder
Associate Professor
Phone: (775) 784-6939FAX: (775)784-1701
Address: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MS 312; University of Nevada, Reno; Reno, NV 89557
Dr. Synder received his first Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1972. He received his second Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1985. His research interests include the physics of secondary flows, with emphasis on understanding how flow develops and acquires structure. Because of its inherent complexity, useful results can usually only be obtained experimentally, by hot wire anemometry and other equipment on hand. Current research projects include: flow development in a model airway bronchus, triple-deck boundary layer structure, and the growth of vorticity in curved channels.
Jonghwan Suhr
Assistant Professor
PH: (775) 682-7481FAX: (775)784-1701
E-mail: suhrjh@unr.edu
Address: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MS 312; University of Nevada, Reno; Reno, NV 89557
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Jonghwan Suhr received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) in 2005. He performed post doctoral work at the NYS-Focus Center in Rensselaer (2005-2006). Dr. Suhr joined the University of Nevada, Reno faculty as an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering in the spring semester of 2007. He received his BS and MS from Sungkyunkwan University, Korea in 1995 and 1997, respectively. His research interests are in the synthesis and applications (in particular, structural applications) of nanostructured materials, fundamental nanomechanics and also renewable energy systems.
Eric L. Wang
Associate Professor
PH: (775) 784-6094FAX: (775)784-1701
E-mail: eric.wang@unr.edu
URL: http://biomech.me.unr.edu
Address: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MS 312; University of Nevada, Reno; Reno, NV 89557
Dr. Wang joined the ME faculty in 1995. From 1993 to 1995 he was an associate instructor of mechanical engineering at UC Davis. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley. He earned his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T. specializing in the manufacture of composite materials. He earned his Ph.D. from UC Davis where he investigated the quantification and optimization of mountain bike suspension systems.
Dr. Wang is responsible for teaching introduction to mechanical engineering (ME 150/ ME 151), design of mechanical elements (ME 351), and design synthesis (ME 452). Professor Wang is an active member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports (ISBS), the International Sports Engineering Association (ISEA), the United States Cycling Federation (USCF), and the International Human Powered Vehicle Association (IHPVA). He is also one of the faculty advisors for the UNR human powered vehicle (HPV) team.
Dr. Wang's research activities include biomechanics, design of sports equipment, vehicle system dynamics, and composite and intelligent materials. Recent projects include: dynamics of humans during falls, optimization of mountain bike suspension systems, biomechanics of snowboarding, and the development of magneto- and electrorheological shock absorbers. He has published over 15 articles and is also a regular reviewer for the Journal of Mechanical Design (ASME), Journal of Biomechanical Engineering (ASME), Journal of Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures, Transactions on Education (IEEE), and the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Wang is UNR Campus Associate Director of the Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium.
Richard A. Wirtz
UNR Foundation Professor
PH: (775) 784-6714FAX: (775)784-1701
E-mail: rawirtz@unr.edu
URL:http://web.me.unr.edu/wirtz
Address: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MS 312; University of Nevada, Reno; Reno, NV 89557
R.A. Wirtz received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1971. He joined the University of Nevada, Reno faculty as a Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 1986 and served as Chairman of the Department from 1986 through 1992. Prior to that (1970-1985) he was on the faculty at Clarkson University. He is founder (in 1995) of Sierra-Nevada Research and Development, Inc., a company specializing in thermally related product, process and intellectual property development and marketing. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is a recipient of the ASME Electronic Packaging Division Award For Outstanding Contributions To The Field Of Thermal Management Of Microelectronics Equipment And Systems, and the Lemelson Award For Innovation And Entrepreneurship..
He has over thirty years experience in heat transfer research and development: forced and natural convection processes, thermal control in electronic packaging, heat transfer augmentation, porous media heat transfer, phase change heat transfer and, nuclear waste storage and transportation. He is experienced with infrared imagery, laser velocimetry, Mach-Zehnder and holographic interferometry, image analysis and all aspects of thermometry and heat flux measurements; and, algorithm development and large-scale computational fluid mechanics and heat transfer software.
The Department of Energy, Gas Research Institute, IBM Corporation, INTEL Corporation, Missile Defense Agency, NASA, The National Science Foundation, and a number of small businesses have supported his University research. He is the editor of three volumes and author of two handbook chapters on thermal control in electronics; he owns a patent on nuclear waste disposal; and, he has approximately 70 peer reviewed technical publications.
Chanwoo Park
UNR Assistant Professor
PH: (775) 682-6301FAX:(775)784-1701
E-mail: chanwoo@unr.edu
URL: http://web.me.unr.edu/ciml
Address: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MS 312; University of Nevada, Reno; Reno, NV 89557
Dr. Park received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) in 2000. Before joining the University of Nevada-Reno faculty, he was a Group Leader at Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc., located at Lancaster, Pennsylvania where he had developed an advanced pump-assisted hybrid two-phase cooling loop technology for high heat flux electronics cooling and vehicle thermal management of Army Future Combat System (FCS) and a metal hydride heat storage technology for Solid-State Laser systems. Dr. Park also worked as a research specialist in Ford Research and Advanced Engineering Laboratory, Dearborn, Michigan, developing on the engine cooling and vehicle thermal management systems for advanced hybrid electric and hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine vehicles (2001-2003).
Dr. Chanwoo Park’s research area and interest include (1) two-phase heat transfer/systems (e.g., thin film boiling, condensation, pumped two-phase loop, loop heat pipe, capillary pumped loop, and heat pipe) for cooling of high performance electronics (e.g., spacecraft electronics, computer chip and IGBT) and directed energy weapon systems (e.g., high energy laser and high power microwave), and vehicle thermal management (e.g., fuel cell and hybrid electric vehicles) (2) energy conversion/storage/transportation technologies including renewable energy (e.g., solar cell and geothermal), fuel cell, thermoelectricity, solid hydrogen storage, heat storage (metal hydrides and phase change materials) and rechargeable battery (Li-Ion), and (3) nanotechnologies using nano-fluids, nano-fibers and nano-composites to improve traditional thermal and mechanical properties and designs. Both theoretical and experimental approaches are used for the research.
