Pitchumani earns Hoyt Clarke Hottel Award
Pitchumani earns Hoyt Clarke Hottel Award
Ranga Pitchumani , the George R . Goodson Professor of Mechanical Engineering , received the 2017 Hoyt Clarke Hottel Award in October from the American Solar Energy Society .
The prestigious Hoyt Clarke Hottel Award is a highly selective award in the field of Solar Energy . The Award ’ s namesake ( of the well-known Hottel charts fame in Heat Transfer ), and past recipients are considered distinguished pioneers in the field .
Hottel and his co-workers were the first to develop accurate analytical models for solar heat collectors and the modeling and testing has led to what is currently known as the Hottel-Whillier model .
Winners of the award must have made a significant contribution to technology in any area of the solar energy field .
Click a link below to read more about Pitchumani ' s research .
Using mirrors to make solar energy cost competitive
New material coating technology Sunshot initiative grant
Zuo Best Paper Award
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Lei Zuo received the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division Vibrations Technical Committee – Best Vibrations Paper “ Regenative Based Isolation with Multi-Resonant Elec-
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tromagnetic Shunt Dampers ” Presented Oct . 11-13 at the 2017 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference in Tysons , VA . The award was presented to Zuo , Yalu Pei , and Yilun Liu .
Mirzaeifar USAF Award
Reza Mirzaeifar received a $ 360,000 award from the United States Air Force ' s Young Investigator Research Program .
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His work will study Ultra-High Strength Superelastic Transforming Metal Matrix-Graphene Composites . The award is for three years .
Tian earns New Investigator Award
Zhiting Tian received an ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award of $ 110,000 , to support her research on Asymmetric Thermal Properties of a Novel Polymer Topology .
Eskandarian wins award
Azim Eskandarian was selected for the 2017 IEEE ITS Outstanding Researcher Award for contributions in Autonomous Systems and Intelligent Machines . He was recognized at an award ceremony Oct . 18 in Yokohama , Japan .
Wang receives award
Undergraduate senior Yiying Irene Wang was awarded the David H . Jackson / Bostik Findley Inc . Award for work on engineering biomedical device surfaces to mitigate biofilm formation . Wang is enrolled in the BS / MS program .
Hu earns best paper
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Yazhe Hu , a doctoral student with Tomonari Furukawa , earned the Best Paper Award at the 4th International Symposium on Future Active Safety Technology Towards Zero Accidents ( FAST-Zero ) in Nara , Japan in September . The paper was called , Automatic Detection and Evaluation of 3-D Pavement Defects Using 2-D and 3-D Information at High Speed .
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