Vinod Narayanan is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC Davis. He is also the Associate Director of the UC Davis Western Cooling Efficiency Center (http:\/\/wcec.ucdavis.edu\/). Prior to joining UC Davis, he was a Professor and the Welty Faculty Fellow in the School of Mechanical Industrial and Manufacturing engineering at Oregon State University (OSU). Following the completion of his PhD from\u00a0\u00a0Texas A&M University in 2001,\u00a0he\u00a0joined\u00a0OSU as an Assistant Professor. His areas of interest include microscale flow and heat transfer, phase change heat transfer, energy efficiency, solar thermal energy utilization, flow and thermal diagnostics, and thermal management. Sponsors of his group\u2019s current and past research include the National Science Foundation, National Aeronautical and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Office of Naval Research, Australian Research Council, Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute, Oregon Built Environment and Sustainable Technologies Center, and American Society for Engineering Education. He is the recipient of one of ASEE\u2019s Air Force Research Laboratory Summer Faculty Fellowships in 2010, the NSF CAREER award in 2008, and the George Kunze prize from Texas A&M University in 2001. He is currently the Chair of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers\u2019 K-13 committee on Heat Transfer in Multiphase Systems, and recently chaired the ASME 2015 International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels (ICNMM).<\/p>\n
Short Biography Vinod Narayanan is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC Davis. He is also the Associate Director of the UC Davis Western Cooling Efficiency Center (http:\/\/wcec.ucdavis.edu\/). Prior to joining UC Davis, he was a Professor and the Welty Faculty Fellow in the School \u2026 Continue reading