Bourns Hall

Faculty Recognition Highlights

• National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Awards
  • Guanshui Xu
• Army Research Office Young Investigator Program (ARO YIP) Award
  • Javier Garay
• Fellow/Associate Fellow of Professional Societies
  • The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS)
    • Reza Abbaschian
  • TMS Educator Award
    • Reza Abbaschian
  • American Society for Metals (ASM)
    • Reza Abbaschian
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
    • Kambiz Vafai
  • American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    • Kambiz Vafai
  • American Society for Lasers in Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS)
    • Guillermo Aguilar
  • Fellow of World Innovation Foundation (WIF)
    • Kambiz Vafai
  • Associate Fellow of American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
    • Shankar Mahalingam, Kambiz Vafai
• Journal Editor/Associate Editor
  • Journal of Porous Media
    • Editor in Chief: Kambiz Vafai
  • Journal of Materials Research
    • Principal Editor: Cengiz Ozkan
  • Journal of Applied Meteorology
    • Associate Editor: Akula Venkatram
  • AIAA Journal
    • Associate Editor: Shankar Mahalingam
• Membership on Editorial Boards
  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
    • Kambiz Vafai
  • International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer
    • Kambiz Vafai
  • Numerical Heat Transfer Journal
    • Kambiz Vafai
  • International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow
    • Kambiz Vafai
  • Experimental Heat Transfer Journal
    • Kambiz Vafai
  • International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
    • Kambiz Vafai
  • Numerical Heat Transfer Journal
    • Kambiz Vafai
  • Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering
    • Kambiz Vafai
  • The Open Mechanical Engineering Journal
    • Kambiz Vafai
  • Sensor Letters
    • Cengiz Ozkan
  • Catalysis Today
    • Cengiz Ozkan
• Other Significant Awards/Honors
  • American Meteorological Society (AMS) Committee on Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution
    • Akula Venkatram
  • South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) Advisory Council
    • Akula Venkatram
  • NIH Research Scientist Development Award (K-01)
    • Guillermo Aguilar
  • Air and Waste Management Association's (AWMA) first prize for technical paper
    • Marko Princevac
  • DOE recognition for contributions to the Vertical Transport and Mixing Experiment (VTMX)
    • Marko Princevac
  • ISI Highly Cited Researcher
    • Kambiz Vafai
  • Classic Paper Award ASME Heat Transfer Division 1999
    • Kambiz Vafai
  • Hetenyi Award for best research paper in a year published in the International Journal of Experimental Mechanics, Society for Experimental Mechanics
    • Junlan Wang
  • ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award (2006)
    • Kambiz Vafai
  • Holder of three US patents: US patent # 6,457,515; US patent # 6,675,875 ; US patent # 7,288,404
    • Kambiz Vafai
  • Director/Chair of the Second International Conference on Porous Media and its Applications in Science, Engineering and Industry sponsored by NSF and ECI, Kauai, Hawaii (2007)
    • Kambiz Vafai
  • Director/Chair of the First International Conference in Porous Media and Its Applications in Science, Engineering and Industry, sponsored by NSF and ECI , Kona, Hawaii (1996)
    • Kambiz Vafai
  • Chair of the Committee on Heat Transfer in Energy Systems, National ASME (7/07-Present)
    • Kambiz Vafai