ME Department welcomes three new faculty this Fall

Dr. Prashant Singh joined the ME department at Mississippi State University in Fall 2019. He received his B.Tech from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (India) in 2012, his M.S. from Arizona State University, Tempe AZ in 2014 and Ph.D. from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA in 2017, all in Mechanical Engineering. He worked as a Post-doctoral associate at the Mechanical Engineering department and the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Sciences (ICTAS) at Virginia Tech from July 2017 to Dec 2017. He joined the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering department at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, as a Research Scholar in January 2018 and continued to work there before joining MSU this fall semester. He has been teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses in the area of thermal-fluid science at NC State University, where he also introduced a new course on “Experimental Methods in Heat Transfer” at the graduate level. His research interests lie in the area of thermal and fluid sciences, particularly in the thermal management of systems involving high heat dissipation rates, thermal energy conversion and storage using porous media and phase change materials, bio-inspired heat exchanger design, thermal processes involved in additive manufacturing, nanoscale heat transfer, thermal system design and optimization. He has published 23 international journals and 36 conference papers so far and has received several awards from ASME including the Warren M. Rohsenow award for best paper presentation in the ASME K-14 committee.