DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

Research Areas: Transport phenomena in the material processing of nanostructured materials. Applications include chemical vapor deposition (CVD), carbon nanotube, fuel cell, photonics and semiconductor manufacture.

Dr. Chiu joined the University of Connecticut in August 1999 where he is now Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He earned his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Rutgers University in 1994, 1997 and 1999, respectively. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Columbia University Medical Center in 2006. His research, with financial support from the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Army Research Office, Department of Energy, and industry, focuses on heat and mass transfer with chemical reactions, with applications to fuel cells, chemical vapor deposition, carbon nanotubes, photonics and semiconductor materials. Dr. Chiu published 38 journal articles and 69 conference articles/abstracts. Among his honors, Dr. Chiu is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2001), the ONR Young Investigator Award (2001), the ARO Young Investigator Award (2005), and the ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer (2006). He serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Vice Chairman of the ASME Heat Transfer Division's K-15 Technical Committee on Transport Phenomena in Manufacturing and Materials Processing, Member of the ASME Advanced Energy Systems Division Systems' Analysis and Fuel Cell Technical Committee, and Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of The Open Energy and Fuels Journal.