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Panels

15-1-1 — Panel on Heat Transfer Education (sponsored by K-21)

Monday, July 15
4:00 PM – 5:40 PM
Regency Ballroom G
Second Floor

Panel Organizer

Prof. Nesrin Ozalp
University of Minnesota Duluth
Duluth, MN, United States

Undergraduate education deserves utmost care in creating new generation mechanical engineers. It is important to pass knowledge without overwhelming students while stimulation of critical thinking is kept as the key to shape their minds. Heat transfer course is usually referred as one of the hardest topics by engineering students. This presents a challenge to educators and leads them to seek methods to captivate students’ attention and understanding of the subject matter. In this panel, different perspectives will be presented on how to make heat transfer course attractive and easier for students to understand. The panel discussions will bring experiences of the panelists together as example approaches. The panel involves highly experienced heat transfer professors who made appreciable contributions to the heat transfer research field who offer new techniques to attract students.

Panelists

Prof. Patrick Oosthuizen, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada
Prof. Michael Pate, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Prof. Ashley F. Emery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA


1-6-1 — Panel on the Key Role of Heat Transfer Analysis in Energy Systems Research

Tuesday, July 16
8:30 am – 10:10 am
Regency Ballroom A
Second Floor

Panel Organizer

Prof. Nesrin Ozalp
University of Minnesota Duluth
Duluth, MN, United States

This panel compiles variety of research discussions on the use of heat transfer techniques for experimental and numerical work. The panel discussions will bring experiences of the panelists together as example approaches as well as promising future directions for research. The panel involves highly experienced heat transfer professors who have made appreciable contributions to heat transfer research.

Panelists

Yuwen Zhang, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States
S.A. Sherif, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
Michael Epstein, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

21-1-1 — Women in Heat Transfer Panel

Tuesday, July 16
4:00 PM – 5:40 PM
Grand Ballroom A
Second Floor

Panel Organizer

Dr. Leslie Phinney
Sandia National Labs 
Albuquerque, NM, United States

The Women in Heat Transfer Panel will be comprised of exemplary women engineers from academia and industry/national labs who will describe their career paths including opportunities and challenges they encountered. They will provide career advice to younger engineers. Early career engineers, of both genders, are especially encouraged to attend. There will also be discussion on how to make the thermal engineering community more inclusive and welcoming for all.

Panelists

Jayathi Murthy, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Jane Davidson, University of Minnesota, Wayzata, MN, United States
Amy Betz, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States
Judith Vidal, University of California, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, United States
Pei Dong, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States

5-1-3 — Panel on Lifecycle of Industrial Heat Exchangers: Concept to Trouble-Free Operation (Sponsored By K-10)

Wednesday, July 17, 2019
8:30 AM – 10:10 AM
Regency Ballroom C
Second Floor

Panel Organizers

Dr. Maulik Shelat
Praxair
Williamsville, NY, United States

Dr. Amanie Abdelmessih
California Baptist University
Riverside, CA, United States

Researchers and development engineers from the industry and academia are invited to discuss their experiences of converting a heat exchanger concept to a commercial application and highlight learnings obtained along the way including successes, failures and troubleshooting. Another purpose of this topic is to discuss studies conducted to evaluate performance of the heat exchangers in a system level operation compared to the design expectations and lessons learnt as well as solutions implemented to address identified gaps.

Panelists

Kevin Farrell, HTRI, Navasota, Texas
Francesco Coletti, Hexxcell Ltd., Uxbridge, UK
Richard Jibb, McDermott, Houston, TX;
Maulik Shelat, Praxair, Tonawanda, NY
Douglas Decker, Chart Energy & Chemicals, LaCrosse, WI