Suresh V. Garimella Honored By ASME For His Contributions To Thermal Management

NEW YORK, Oct. 21, 2009 -- Suresh V. Garimella, Ph.D., a resident of West Lafayette, Ind., and R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson professor at Purdue University, will be honored by ASME. He is being recognized for fundamental scholarly contributions to thermal management as reflected by an extensively cited publication record; the mentorship of a large, diverse group of graduate students; the direct industrial impact on cooling technologies through leadership of a National Science Foundation industry/university cooperative research center; and unflagging service to the profession. He will receive ASME’s Allan Kraus Thermal Management Medal.

The medal, established in 2009, recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievements in thermal management of electronic systems and their commitment to the field of thermal sciences. It will be presented to Dr. Garimella during the 2009 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, which is being held in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Nov. 13 through 19.

Garimella joined Purdue University in 1999. His prior experience includes serving on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1990-99).

His research emphasizes experimental studies and computational analysis of fundamental transport mechanisms with a direct bearing on technological applications. He has made significant contributions in microscale heat transport, thermal micro and nanosystems, electromechanical actuation of fluids, micropumps, heat pipes, thermal contact resistance, phase change energy storage, piezoelectric fans, miniature refrigeration systems, energy efficiency and materials processing, among others. His scholarly contributions have had great impact on problems of industrial interest, as attested to by the thriving National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Cooling Technologies that he directs.

Garimella has worked with a large number of graduate students and post-docs, and nine alumni from his research group currently serve as faculty members at prestigious universities. He has co-authored over 165 refereed journal publications, edited/contributed to a number of books and presented many lectures internationally.

An ASME Fellow, Garimella has been a member of the Heat Transfer Division (HTD) K-16 Committee on Heat Transfer in Electronic Equipment since 1990. He served on HTD’s Membership Development and Recognition Committee (2003-07), including as chair (2005-07); and was a member of the K-5 Coordination Committee (1995-98, 2005-07). Garimella is associate editor of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications; and was editor of Heat Transfer-Recent Contents (1995-98) and associate editor of the Journal of Heat Transfer (2004-07). He co-chaired the ASME/Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer’s Heat and Mass Transfer Conference in Guwahati, India, in January 2006. He received the Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award (2004) and HTD’s K16 Clock Award (2006).

Besides his service to ASME, Garimella also serves as an editor of Applied Energy, Experimental Heat Transfer and the International Journal of Micro-Nano Scale Transport, and has served on the editorial board of Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science.

Garimella is a Fellow of the Center of Smart Interfaces at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany; an honorary guest professor at the Xi’an Jiao Tong University, China; and a member of the Scientific Council of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer.

Garimella received his bachelor’s degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, in 1985. He earned his master’s degree at Ohio State University, Columbus, in 1986; and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1989.

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