thermal sciences – Mechanical Engineering

Solomon Adera wins 2026 Henry Russel Award
06/20/2025

The Henry Russel Award is considered the University’s highest honor for faculty at the early to mid-career stages of their career.

Uduak Inyang-Udoh wins ASME Rudolf Kalman Best Paper Award
11/25/2024

Uduak Inyang-Udoh, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, was named the winner of the 2024 ASME Rudolf Kalman Best Paper Award.

Thermal Energy Storage proposal chosen for the first round of the Graham Sustainability Institute’s CNAP
02/19/2021

Rohini Bala Chandran (PI) and Don Siegel’s (Co-PI) proposal has been selected by the Graham Sustainability Institute’s Carbon Neutrality Acceleration Program.

Research labs practice flexibility and creativity to create a new normal
08/03/2020

As research begins to ramp back up in G.G. Brown, we find out how faculty and students are making changes to safely re-enter their workspace.

Exploring a Novel, Nanoscale Thermal Switch
02/12/2020

ME Professors Edgar Meyhofer and Pramod Reddy have shown for the first time how a nanoscale thermal switch can be built by employing nanoscale effects that arise when heat is transferred between a hot and cold nanoscale-thick membrane via thermal radiation.

Toward molecular computers: First measurement of single-molecule heat transfer
07/22/2019

If Moore’s law’s endgame is really computer components made from single molecules, we’re going to need to know how to cool them.

ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards of 2018 includes ME Postdoctoral Fellow
04/12/2019

Work with radiative thermal transport at nanoscale level lands Dakotah Thompson a ProQuest Dissertation Award.

Bala Chandran’s Paper Published in Energy and Environmental Science
01/31/2018

Assistant Professor Bala Chandran’s research featured on inside front cover of high impact journal Energy and Environmental Science.

Improving Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion in Polymers
09/24/2017

In collaboration with MSE Professor Jinsang Kim’s group, ME Professor Kevin Pipe’s lab is using molecular design principles to improve thermal conductivity in polymers.

Pipe’s research featured on phys.org and Engadget
08/03/2017

Professor Pipe and a team of U-M researchers have found a way to change plastic’s molecular structure, making it as thermally conductive as glass