Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the College Prep BEAT THE HEAT workshop has come back in 2021 with a new cohort of students. The program is targeted to help low-income high school students get exposed to the university environments, educate and inspire students to get a highe...
Please check out our latest paper where we discuss recent research progress on structured surfaces for enhanced flow boiling. We discuss lessons learned and focus on remaining challenges. The content of our paper represents a summary from discussions at the Office of Naval Research Workshop on ‘R...
Google has decided to continue funding $86,419 to NEIT lab for the third year to develop an evaporative cooling module, which can be applied to dissipate heat from Google’s data centers in the future. This achievement comes from the hard work of everyone in the lab so congrats to eve...
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2 of ours papers just got accepted to the Applied Thermal Engineering Journal are: Review article: Microscale evaporative cooling technologies for high heat flux microelectronics devices: Background and recent advances and Molecular dynamics simulations of thin-film evaporation: The influence of...
Dr. Damena Agonafer has become one of 85 early-career engineers selected to attend the National Academy of Engineering’s 26th annual US Frontiers of Engineering symposium (USFOE). Read more on the news
Dr. Damena Agonafer received a five-year $500,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to identify different modes of heat transfer during the evaporation process of nonsymmetrical microdroplets that sit atop micropillar structures on a cooling platform. We would like to congra...
The Electronics and Photonics Packaging Division (EPPD) 2019 Early Career Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) was awarded to our principal investigator Dr. Damena Agonafer. The award, given to professionals within 10 years of last degree received, recognizes a young eng...
The cover of the journal Langmuir, the ACS journal of fundamental interface science, featured our latest work on the droplets of different liquids on micropillar structures of different shapes: triangles, squares, and circles. The paper titled “Evolution of Microdroplet Morphology Confined ...
The paper titled Experimental investigation of evaporation from asymmetric microdroplets confined on heated micropillar structures got published on Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science. This paper examines the evaporation rate and heat transfer performance of continuously–fed water microdroplet...
