ASME Honorary Membership Bestowed on Yogesh Jaluria

NEW YORK, Aug. 22, 2012 – Yogesh Jaluria, Ph.D., a resident of Monroe Township, N.J., and board of governors professor at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, will be honored by ASME. He is being recognized for outstanding contributions to fundamental and applied areas of heat transfer and fluid mechanics; for editorial leadership on major engineering journals; and for contributions to engineering education that have had a significant impact on the engineering and wider communities. He will receive Honorary Membership in ASME.

First awarded in 1880, the founding year of the Society, Honorary Membership recognizes a lifetime of service to engineering or related fields. The award will be conferred on Dr. Jaluria at the 2012 ASME Honors Assembly on Nov. 12, held in conjunction with ASME's 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, in Houston, Nov. 9 through 15.

Jaluria, a fellow of ASME, is one of the leading authorities in the field of thermal science and engineering. He is particularly well known for his work on buoyancy-induced flows, such as those related to environmental phenomena and building fires. Besides providing information on the spread and growth of fires in enclosed spaces, the transport through elevator shafts was shown to be particularly relevant to fire spread in large buildings such as the World Trade Center. He has also made extensive, sustained and pioneering contributions to materials processing, including thermal processing of polymeric materials, fabrication of thin films and optical fiber drawing. His work determined feasible domains and optimization approaches to considerably advance the current state of knowledge.

Through his extensive archival publications, patents, books, review articles and keynote papers, Jaluria has had a substantial impact on research, education and industry. His books have had worldwide acceptance and impact, and have led the way in research and education in many new and emerging areas. As the former editor (2005-10) of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, as well as the holder of many important professional positions, he has been a major force in the mechanical engineering community.

Currently, he is a board of governors professor at Rutgers University, a distinction awarded to only about 20 professors in this major university of more than 58,000 students and over 3,000 faculty members. He has served as chair of the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering (2005-11) and as the interim dean of engineering (2008-09). Before joining Rutgers in 1980, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories (Princeton, N.J.) and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Jaluria earned three degrees in mechanical engineering: his bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in 1970; and his master's degree and Ph.D. from Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.) in 1972 and 1974, respectively.

The ASME Foundation is the proud supporter of the ASME Honors and Awards program through the management of award endowment funds set up by individuals, corporations or groups.

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