UTSI - Key Persons
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- Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Vakili is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Tennessee Space Institute, on phased retirement. Vakili has over 35 years of experience in theoretical and applied research in the aerospace and mechanical engineering related fields. He has taught a number of courses at the undergraduate and mainly at a graduate level in the related subject areas. He has worked with large industries and small companies and has been successful in helping improve performances of various existing industrial processes and or help design and develop new processes. Vakili helped develop a patented high-speed carbon fiber spinning technology. He has developed expertise in fiber production and processing technologies and carbon-based composite materials development. Vakili's research areas of interest are in areas of applied, theoretical and experimental simulations of aerodynamics, fluid mechanics, vortex dominated flows, flow structure interactions, flow control, instrumentation, combustion and carbon fibers, and composite materials manufacturing technologies. His specific research experience areas include fundamentals of flow control, flow control applied to mixing and combustion control and industrial flow technologies. He has served as the principal investigator or co-investigator of numerous research projects, grants or contracts. He has published over 160 technical papers and reports and has a number of patents awarded and a number of patent applications in process. He has received numerous honors and awards, served on review panels, and has been a reviewer for national and international journals and scientific funding organizations. Vakili has transitioned (starting August 2016) to spend the majority of his time as the Chief Manager of Flow Integration and Control Systems, (FICS, LLC), an innovations development and high technology solutions company.
Z. Yue, A. Vakili, M.P Duran, Surface treatments of solvated mesophase pitch-based carbon fibers. J. Mater. Sci. 2017. 52:10250-10260. DOI: 10.1007/s10853-017-1197-0.
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- Adjunct Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Adjunct Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Education
Ph. D. Engineering (Mechanical/Aerospace) 1978, The University of Tennessee Knoxville.
M. S. Engineering (Mechanical/Aerospace) 1976, The University of Tennessee Knoxville.
Non-degree 1973-1974, Rhein.-Westf. Technische Hochschule; RWTH Aachen, Germany. Scholarship from Deutscher Academischer Austauschdienst
B.S. General Engineering (Mechanical and Chemical Engineering) 1972, Abadan Institute of
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- Manager of Research Eng & Operations Research Lab Support
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- Director of Enablement University of Tennessee - Huntsville
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- Research Assistant Professor
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- UT - ORNL Governor 's Chair Professor
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- Director Continuing Ed and Outreach Special Short Courses
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- Professor, Associate Department Head
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Senior Director
- Senior Director for Space and Defense Programs
LaMattina is the Senior Director for Space and Defense Programs at the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI), an internationally recognized graduate education and research institution located in Middle Tennessee adjacent to the U.S. Air Force Arnold Engineering Development Complex. Prior to accepting the UTSI appointment he served as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Research Initiatives from 2019 to February, 2021 at UT Knoxville.
Before joining the UT family, he served in the same position at The University of North Carolina. LaMattina has more than 25 years of experience spanning academia, government, and corporate research and defense. He is a creative leader with a strong background in strategic planning, resource management, tech transfer, and workforce development that unites partners from diverse backgrounds to form successful teams that advance research and development with maximum impact. He specializes in research and development, proposal development, teaching and advising, program manager, strategic planning, and more. His technical strengths include manufacturing, solid mechanics, composite materials, and computational modeling, and is an author of over 25 journal articles including two book chapters, one edited book, two journal special issues, numerous conference publications, and more than 25 invited talks.
LaMattina earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of North Carolina and his MS and BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware.
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- Financial Business Manager & Program Manager
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- Manager for Grants and Contracts Business, Finance & Strategy
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- Coordinator of Registration Student Services ( UTSI Campus )
- Manager for Student Affairs Dean for Academic Affairs
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- Research Assistant Professor
A detailed study has been made on Eu-doped ZBLAN fluorochlorozirconate glasses and glass ceramics containing BaCl2. These have uses in optical devices (e.g. fiber lasers and amplifiers), up-converting and down converting glass layers for solar cells, and x-ray storage phosphors or scintillators for x-ray detection and imaging (see Dr Jackie Johnson's report). The effective Debye temperatures for Eu2+ and Eu3+ have been measured. The results were used to optimize the performance of image plates for digital x-ray radiography. This involves maximizing the amount of Eu2+ and determining the conditions required for precipitating BaCl2 nanocrystals containing Eu2+ from a barium chloro-fluorozirconate glass (ZBLAN). On x-irradation in this system Eu2+ stores defects and hence can be used in imaging. Eu3+ scintillates and so is a detector.
Chen, P. Zhao, P. Dai, Z. Chen*, "On the prediction of hot spot induced ignition by the Livengood-Wu integral," Proc. Combust. Inst., 2020, accepted.
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- Professor and Department Head
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- Adjunct Associate Professor
Biography
Christopher Mears has worked at Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) as a government contractor. He has performed several different roles related to management, industrial engineering, systems engineering, reliability engineering, and continuous improvement, from an individual project level up to the enterprise level of AEDC. In his current role as Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Support Manager, Christopher is functionally responsible for work management processes related to O&M support of craft work (resource forecasting, planning, scheduling, CMMS).
Christopher has played an active leadership role in sharing maintenance, reliability, and asset management best practices across multiple military, space, manufacturing, building, and test facilities across the world. He has performed on-site support with assessing and improving operations and maintenance programs at a number of NASA facilities, including NASA Ames (California), NASA White Sands (New Mexico), NASA Michoud (Louisiana), NASA Stennis (Mississippi), and NASA Kennedy Space Center (Florida).
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- Professor and Associate Head
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- Interim Associate Director at Center for Transportation Research
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- Associate Director of Innovative Computing Laboratory and Research Assistant Professor
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- Adjunct Associate Professor, Engineering Management
Education
1980, B.S., Industrial Engineering. Georgia Institute of Technology
1983, M.S., Industrial Engineering. The University of Tennessee
1989, Ph.D., Engineering Science and Mechanics with specialization in Industrial Engineering. The University of Tennessee
Professional Experience
1984- Present, The University of Tennessee, Department of Industrial and Information Engineering
1980-1984, Union Carbide Corporation (later Martin Marietta Energy Systems), Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Courses Taught
IE 514: Information Systems II
IE 518: Advanced Engineering Economy
EM 541: Change and Improvement
EM 532: Productivity and Quality Engineering
EM 537: Analytical Methods
EM 536: Project Management
Research Interests
Performance Management
Knowledge Management
Engineering Systems Management
Project Management
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- Research Assistant Professor
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- Technical Specialist
- Safety & Security
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- Assistant Department Head
Education
1987 Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China BS, Mechanical Engineering
1990 Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China, MS Mechanical Engineering
1999 Nagoya University, Japan, Ph.D.
Teaching
Inviscid Flow
Micro/Nano ElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS/NEMS)
Viscous Fluid Flow
Research Interests
Micro-/nano-scale fluidics, transport, heat transfer, and combustion
Novel multifunctional materials
Micro/Nano electro mechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS)
Low-emission electric propulsion and high-efficiency combustion engines
Electrochemical energy storage and conversions, including fuel cells, electrolyzers, batteries
Alternative fuel and renewable energy, including biofuel, solar energy and wind power
Hybrid energy systems
Thermal control and thermal management
Advanced spectroscopies, including laser, optics, x-ray and electron
Professional Experience
2012-Present Associate Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace
and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee Space Institute
2011-2012 Research Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2006-2010 Research Staff, Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware
2004-2005 Postdoc, Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
2003 Postdoc, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
2002 Visiting Scholar, Stanford University
1999 - 2002 Assistant Professor/Research Associate, Nagoya University
1990 - 1995 Research Engineer, Beijing Institute of Machine & Electricity
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- Senior Research Associate
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- Adjunct Professor
- Adjunct Research Professor, MABE
Professor George Milton Murray is an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. He came to UTSI in 2007 from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He specializes in chemical analysis, sensors and molecularly imprinted polymers. One of Professor Murray's areas of expertise is the preparation of luminescent sensors for toxic compounds. The techniques of molecular imprinting and sensitized lanthanide luminescence have been combined to create the basis for a sensor that can selectively measure a specific organophosphorous compound. A complex of polymerizable sensitizing ligand europium [III) and an organophosphorous compound are copolymerized in a cross-linked polymer matrix. The best coordinators are trifluoromethyl-substituted b-diketones. The best polymerization mechanism is by Reversible Addition Fragmentation Transfer polymerization. This approach is allowing the production of soluble processable imprinted materials. Analogous methodologies are currently being applied to the production of sensors for the detection and determination of toxins, drugs of abuse, explosives and meat spoilage. Toxins are measured using piezo-electric transducers. Drugs are measured in an analogous manner to the nerve agents while explosives are being detected by the production of charge-transfer complexes between the explosives molecules, (acceptor) and immobilized amines (donor). Meat spoilage sensing is obtained using luminescence from a transition metal macrocyclic complex. All of the materials are also capable of providing highly selective binding sites to other transducers such as quartz crystal microbalance and surface plasmon resonance sensors.
Murray has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals as well as articles in the popular science press. He holds twenty U.S. patents and was named as one of the twenty Master Inventors of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Murray's research interests are centered on developing methods for the sequestration and ultra-trace determination of toxic or useful substances in real samples. The means to this goal involves the production of molecularly Imprinted materials for sequestration and as specific polymer sensors. Laser spectroscopy is used for sensor transduction and verification. Laser processing is used to obtain specific form factors. Materials are also prepared for direct electronic or electrochemical transduction using electro-active polymers with imprinted polymer receptors.
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- Professor & Department Head
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- Research Assistant Professor
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- Research Assistant Professor
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- Graduate Programs Director for MABE
- Professor, Associate Professor
Jinwen Wang , Zhongren Yue, James Economy. Novel method to make a continuous micro-mesopore membrane with tailored surface chemistry for use in nanofiltration. Journal of Membrane Science 2008, 308, 191-197
Yue, Zhongren; Economy, James; Rajagopalan, Kishore; Bordson, Gary; Piwoni, Marv. "Removal of trace amounts of atrazine from water using porous carbons coated on a fiberglass substrate". 228th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, United States, August 22-26, 2004.
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- Associate Executive Director
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Associate Executive Director of Academic Affairs / Director of Online Education Program / Program Coordinator for Engineering Management
Simonton is the Associate Executive Director at UTSI and an Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Tennessee. His current job duties include program academic coordination as well as the Director of Online Education at UTSI. His research interests include project management, systems engineering, operational research, engineering economics, statistical analysis, logistics, lean six-sigma, and quality. His research continues to be involved in alternative energy in the areas of electrical generation, biomass gas to liquids, and utilization of stranded or flared natural gases. Resulting from his work in biomass and natural gas to liquid, he has several patents in alternative energy-related areas.
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- Clinical Associate Professor
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor
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- Associate Director
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Associate Director for Space and Defense Programs
Dahlberg is the Associate Director for Space and Defense Programs at the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) Huntsville Research Office. As the associate director, Dahlberg is focused on developing key relationships between the university, federal agencies, and industry in Huntsville, Alabama. Additionally, he advises investigators on emerging research and engagement opportunities of strategic importance with key partners in the Huntsville region. His research interests include experimental aerodynamics, molecular hydrodynamics, and STEM education for veterans.
Dahlberg spent 20 years in the Army and retired as a Sergeant First Class in 2010. Dahlberg then earned his PhD, MS and BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Before joining UTSI, he served as an Associate Professor of Practice and Assistant Teaching Professor at The University of North Carolina where he was the College of Engineering Senior Design Chair.
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- Interim Director at Center for Transportation Research
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- Executive Director
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Executive Director of UT Space Institute
Schmisseur is the Executive Director at UTSI and a Professor of Aerospace Engineering. As director, Schmisseur sets the overall direction for the institute and serves as a direct connection to the dean of the Tickle College of Engineering in Knoxville. His goals include positioning UTSI as a regional hub for advanced technology, expanding the aerospace and defense industry presence in southern Tennessee, fostering workforce and economic development in the area, strengthening the ties between researchers and students in Tullahoma and Knoxville. Planned areas for expansion of research capabilities include aerospace propulsion, materials for aerospace and defense applications, and advanced optical instrumentation. His research interests center around hypersonics, aerospace engineering, and defense capabilities.
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- Manager of Res Eng & Operations MABE Research Lab Support
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- Assistant Director for IT Computer Services
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- Research Assistant Professor
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- Operations Specialist I Dining Hall
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- Media Coordinator Distance Education
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- Chancellor 's Professor Emeritus
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- Research Assistant Professor
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- Adjunct Associate Professor
- Associate Adjunct Professor for the Department of Industrial Engineering
- UT CIS As an Engineering Consultant
Biography
Lynn E. Reed is an Associate Adjunct Professor for the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Tennessee Space Institute and a full time employee of the University of Tennessee Center for Industrial Services. His professional interest are furthering knowledge in risk management strategies and excellence in industrial product quality improvements and cost mitigation. His current work is associated with quality, environmental, and energy management systems and environmental / regulatory law.
From 1974 to 1995, Lynn worked as an engineer in a chemical manufacturing plant. He worked primarily in production and engineering management responsible for training, manufacturing, safety, scheduling, personnel, engineering, maintenance, and environmental management associated with his operating area. From 95 to 96, he taught high school math and algebra before joining the University of Tennessee Center for Industrial Services (UT CIS) in 1996 while completing his MS and PhD degrees.
From 1996 to the present time, Lynn has worked for UT CIS as an engineering consultant providing technical assistance to Tennessee industries across the state. Much of his last ten years was devoted to work in risk assessment and risk management strategies in collaboration with a major OEM located in Middle Tennessee and its extended North American supply chain. He sees risk management as one of the most significant challenges facing manufacturers and suppliers in the 21 st Century. He spent the last three years working on research into the impact of formal supply chain training on reduction of manufacturing defects and costs for the automotive industry.
Courses Taught
Introduction to Engineering Management
Industrial Quality Management
Quality Management Systems
Environmental Management Systems
Energy Management Systems
Industrial Risk Management
Industrial Problem Solving
Statistical Process Control
Automotive Core Tools
Environmental & Regulatory Law
Waste Reduction & Mitigation
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- Dean and Chancellor 's Professor
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- Rosenberg Associate Professor
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- Communications & Marketing Special Events Coordinator
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- Research Assistant Professor
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- Director of Finance and Administration
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- Professor and Associate Head
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- Adjunct Associate Professor
Montgomery Smith received a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Rhodes College in 1978, and B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tennessee in Electrical Engineering in 1982, 1984 and 1988, respectively. He has previously worked as an Assistant Physicist for Southern Research Institute in Birmingham AL (1978 - 1979), a Radiological Physicist for the Tennessee Department of Public Health in Nashville TN (1980 - 1981), and a Research Engineer for the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma TN (1984 -1989). From 1989 to 1996, he was an Assistant Professor for University of Tennessee Space Institute, and from 1996 to 2012, served as an Associate Professor. In the summers of 1997 and 1998, he was a Summer Faculty Fellow at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville AL. His research and teaching interests include the general fields of optics, signal processing, and communications theory, with specialized involvement in electronic and optical diagnostic techniques emphasizing post-acquisition algorithms for data processing and analysis utilizing digital signal and image processing. Smith has published 23 refereed journal articles, primarily in IEEE and OSA journals, 25 conference presentations, and 5 book chapters. He has served as Major Professor for 25 M.S. students in Electrical Engineering and Engineering Science. His professional activities include Senior Member of the IEEE, and Member of the OSA, Sigma Pi Sigma, and Sigma Xi. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Tennessee, License #022307.
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- Student Services Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
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- Associate Professor
- PARC Director
Education
Doctorate (PhD), Combustion, Ecole Centrale Paris (now CentraleSupelec), 2010.
Paul Palies is Associate Professor at UTSI and the founding director of the Combustion and Propulsion for Aviation Research Center (C-PARC) at UTSI. His research is in reacting fluid dynamics with specializations in aeronautical propulsion research and physics of premixed swirling flames. He developed an expertise in combustion dynamics applied to laboratory scale combustors and jet engines with a demonstrated experience in acoustics, combustion, and fluid dynamics. His published work has focused on understanding key physics and passive control strategies in this context as demonstrated by a patent, a book and nearly 50 publications. He graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris in aerospace and from University of Paris XI in mechanics-physics. He has broad-band fundamentals knowledge in sciences and engineering. He holds a doctorate in combustion from Ecole Centrale Paris. His doctoral thesis investigated combustion dynamics mechanism identification, prediction and passive control for swirl-stabilized flames with theoretical, experimental and numerical methods. He was senior research scientist at the research center of United Technologies Corporation developing passive control strategy and modeling capabilities to support NASA and Pratt and Whitney's commercial combustors programs. He has managed as PI or lead several projects. He is establishing the C-PARC at UTSI to conduct research to develop technologies for premixed combustion enabling higher efficiency. One key goal of the C-PARC is to describe and demonstrate swirling flame stabilization for 100% hydrogen content under premixed combustion regime at scales ranging from laboratory to full jet engine conditions within the facilities available at UTSI and thus eliminating the emission of CO 2.
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- Professor and Associate Head
Education
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Florida State University, 2008
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Florida State University, 2015
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- Research Assistant Professor
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- Adjunct Research Associate Professor
Education
2015 - PhD, Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2010 - MS, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1995 - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville
Professional Experience
2023-present - Solutions Consultant, Center for Industrial Services, University of Tennessee Institute for Public Service, Nashville, TN
2023-present - Adjunct Research Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN
2022-2023 - Research Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN
2020-present - Visiting Scholar, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2015-2022 - Research Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN
2011-2015 - Research Associate, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN
2009-2010 - Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN
1996-2008 - Project/Tooling Engineer, Walker Die Casting, Inc., Lewisburg, TN
Research Interests
Ceramics, Glasses, and Glass ceramics
Luminescent Materials
X-ray and Neutron Radiography
Thin Films
Ion Batteries
Functionalized Nanoparticles
Carbon Materials
Education
1998, B.S., Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State University
1998, B.S., Mathematics, Mississippi State University
2001, M.S., Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University
2003, Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University
2015, M.B.A., University of New Mexico
Professional Experience
2016 - Present, Research Professor, Dept. of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee Space Institute
2015-2016, Senior Engineer, Computational Simulation, Modeling & Analysis Section, Arnold Engineering Development Complex
2010-2015, Department Manager, Computational Thermal & Fluid Mechanics Department, Sandia National Laboratories
2010, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Aerosciences Dept., Sandia National Laboratories
2003-2010, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Aerosciences Dept., Sandia National Laboratories
Research Interests
High temperature gas dynamics and thermochemistry
Numerical methods for compressible flows
Wall-bounded turbulence
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- IT Technologist Computer Services
Education
M.Sc. in Engineering Physics, with a project in Particle Physics. Thesis title: "pd reactions atWASA", Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 2000
Ph.D. in the Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Department of Physics in the Ångströmlaboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, December 9, 2005. Thesis title: "3dTransition Metals Studied by Mössbauer Spectroscopy". Supervisors: Profs. Roger Wäpplingand Lennart Häggström. Download thesis.
Professional Experience
2000-2001 - Uppsala University, Research Assistant at Dept. of Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis (ESCA). Supervisor: Nobel Laureate, Prof. Kai Siegbahn.
2001-2005 - Uppsala University, Dept. of Physics. (While a PhD Researcher)
2003-2005 - Member of the board at the Physics department, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
2006-2006 - Postdoctoral studies at the Division for Spintronics at The Royal Institute ofTechnology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden.
2006-2007 - Lecturer at the Physics department, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
2007-2009 - Research member at the Research and Utilization Division at Japan SynchrotronRadiation Research Institute (JASRI), SPring8, Japan.
2009-2011 - Research member at the Department for Applied Science, University of CaliforniaDavis, and Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA,USA
2011-present - Research member at the Department of Chemistry, University of California Davis, andPhysical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA, USA
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- Student Services Associate Admissions & Student Services
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- Senior Research Associate
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- Research Assistant Professor
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- Director for Facilities Physical Plant
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- Assistant Director for Campus Services, Student Life & External Engagement Student Services
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- Associate Professor Emeritus
- Interim Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs
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- Chan Cellor 's Professor and Department Head
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- Computer Data Scientist II
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- Research Associate Professor
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- Research Associate Professor
Education
1984 - BS in Chemical Engineering, Hefei Univ. of Technology, China
1987 - MS in Polymer Science, Univ. of Science and Technology of China
1995 - PhD in Polymer Chemistry and Physics, Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University
Professional Experience
Jan, 2007 - Current, Research Associate Professor at University of Tennessee Space Institute
2003 - 2006, Research Scientist, Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1998 - 2002, Post-doc Research Associate, Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1995 - 1997, Assistant Professor at the Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University
1987 - 1992, Assistant Researcher in Polymer Materials Institute, Anhui University, China
Research Interests
High-performance carbon fibers
Fiber reinforced composites
High surface area, porous materials
Advanced materials for water and air purification
Jinwen Wang, Zhongren Yue, and James Economy, "Preparation of polyelectrolyte multilayer films consisting of sulfonated poly (ether ether ketone) which alternates with various anionic layers". SUST 59. Sustainability of Energy, Food, and Water, The 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007.
Li Ding, Vernon L. Snoeyink, Benito J. Mariñas, Zhongren Yue, James Economy, "Effect of pore size distribution of activated carbon on the competitive adsorption between trace contaminant and natural organic matter". NSF Water CAMPWS Annual Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia, April 13-15, 2005.