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Title

Professor/Director-North Central Regional Sun Grant Center

Office Building

Crothers Engineering Hall

Office

218

Mailing Address

Crothers Engineering Hall 218
Mechanical Engineering-Box 2219
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007

Education

• B.S. in mechanical engineering | Iowa State University | 2003
• M.S. in mechanical engineering | Iowa State University | 2006
• Ph.D. in mechanical Engineering | Iowa State University | 2009

Academic Interests

• Thermal fluids and energy systems
• Model-based engineering and design
• Virtual engineering

Academic Responsibilities

• EM 331: Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics
• ME 442/542: Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics
• EM 731: Advanced Fluid Mechanics
• ME 492/592: Engineering Mechanics in Biomedical Applications

Committees and Professional Memberships

Committee Activities

• South Dakota State University Faculty Budget Committee

Professional Memberships

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Society of Automotive Engineers
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• American Society for Engineering Education

Areas of Research

• Computational modeling of thermal fluid systems
• Computational modeling of photobioreactors for alternative energy systems
• Computational modeling of medical devices
• Biofuels research and development
• Engineering education