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Sivakumar S. Krishnan Assistant
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Dr.
Krishnan is an experienced engineering educator and researcher with extensive
teaching experience in the thermal fluids curriculum including laboratory courses.
He has won a campus-wide Trustees Teaching and Recognition Award (TERA) award
as well as an ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Honorable
Mention recently. He actively contributed
to the ABET (Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology) review and accreditation
process through in-depth assessment of courses that he taught.
He has
been successful in attracting industry and federal funding for laboratory
development for teaching and research.
He has mentored more than 30 undergraduate students and 4 MS and 2 PhD
students in projects that involved the development of teaching and research
laboratories, energy use in buildings, waste heat recovery and microgravity
combustion. He has more than 30 journal & conference publications as well
as about 10 patents & technical reports in the areas of thermal-fluid sciences,
combustion & engineering education. He has consulted for a startup, participated
in entrepreneurial competitions, performed patent searches and reviewed business
plans. He is interested in the
undergraduate and graduate research in the areas of energy use in buildings,
energy efficiency as well as microgravity experiments as well as research in
engineering education.
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He is a member
of ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education), AIAA (American Institute
of Aeronautics and Astronautics) and USGBC (US Green Building Council). |
Courses Taught
- ME
509 Intermediate
Fluid Mechanics
- ME
505 Intermediate Heat Transfer
- ME 314 Heat and Mass Transfer (Lecture and Lab)
- ME 310 Fluid Mechanics (Lecture and Lab)
- ME
200 Thermodynamics
Current and Past Students
- Eisuke
Tanabe (MSME)
- Brian
Alano (ME 491, Summer 2008)
- William
Donelson (MSME)
- Zachary
Lightner (ME 491, Fall 2007)
- Manish
K. Saini (MSME, Fall 2006)
- Sravan
Ravinutala (PhDME, discontinued)
- Jason Abshire
(MSME, August 2004)
- Sang
Bae Park (MSME, May 2004)
Last Updated: 12/15/2009 10:54 PM