People Those who are currently involved with the the Thermal Analysis and Microfluidics Lab, as well as alumni.
	Dr. Satish Kandlikar Gleason Professor in Mechanical Engineering · Curriculum Vitae · Email Satish Kandlikar is the Gleason Professor of Mechanical Engineering at RIT. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay in 1975 and had been a faculty there before coming to RIT in 1980. His research is mainly focused in the area of flow boiling. After investigating the flow boiling phenomena from an empirical standpoint, which resulted in widely accepted correlations for different geometries, he started to look at the problem from a fundamental perspective.  Using the high speed photography techniques, he demonstrated that small bubbles are released at high frequency under flow conditions.  His current work involves stabilizing flow boiling in microchannels, interface mechanics during rapid evaporation, and advanced chip cooling with single-phase liquid flow.  He has published over 100 journal and conference papers. He is a fellow member of ASME and has been the organizer of the two international conferences on Microchannels and Minichannels sponsored by ASME. He is the founder of the ASME Heat Transfer Chapter in Rochester and founder and first Chairman of the E-cubed fair – a science and engineering fair for middle school students. The fair is hosted every year, since 1991, in celebration of the National Engineers Week.
Post-Doctoral Fellows
	Dr. Zijie (Owen) Lu Email Resume Owen Lu is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the TAMFL. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Penn State University in 2005. He worked as a Research Scientist with Hoku Scientific, Inc from 2006 to 2007. He has been worked in the field of the electrochemistry and the polymer electrolyte membrane for a long time. He is now working in the area of water management in the PEM fuel cells.
	Dr. Ting-Yu (Tony) Lin Email Resume Ting-Yu (Tony) Lin joined the TAMFL in January 2008. He received his Ph.D. degree from the National Central University in Taiwan in 2007 and worked as a thermal engineer in Inventec Taiwan Ltd. for half year. His current work involves water management in PEM fuel cell and heat transfer in microchannel.
PhD Students
	Mike Daino Email Resume Michael Daino joined the lab in December 2007 as a Microsystems Ph.D. student. He received a B.S. degree in Physics and Mathematics from SUNY College at Brockport in May, 2007. His doctoral work will involve the imaging water transport through the gas diffusion layer of a PEM fuel cell.
M.S. Students
	Viral Vinodray Dharaiya Email Resume Viral Dharaiya joined the Thermal Analysis and Microfluids Lab in fall 2008. He completed his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Technology, Gujarat, India. He is currently pursuing his MS degree in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on thermo/fluids. He is working on CFD modeling and also studying two phase flow in PEM fuel cells.
	Jacob LaManna Email Resume Jacob joined the lab in September of 2007 to begin thesis work for his BS/MS degree. He has an interest in advanced energy systems and thermo/fluid systems. His thesis work will focus on heat and mass transfer within a PEM fuel cell.
	Christopher Lee McDade Email Resume Lee finished his BS in mechanical engineering at RIT with an automotive focus and is currently enrolled as a full time MS student. His thesis work is in the application of acoustic microscopy for GDL imaging.
	Arjun Radhakrishnan Email Resume Arjun Radhakrishnan joined TAMFL in winter of 2007. He completed his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India. He is currently pursuing his MS degree in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on thermo/fluids. He is also working towards the measurement of thermal conductivity of Gas Diffusion Layer in a Fuel Cell stack.
	Cody Rath Email Resume Cody is a transfer student from Alfred State where he earned an Associates Degree in Engineering Science. He is currently working towards a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering as part of the Dual Degree program. He plans on continuing his thesis research in the lab working with Dr. Kandlikar.
	Jackie Sergi Email Resume Jackie Sergi is a Mechanical Engineering graduate student pursuing her Masters Degree at RIT. She joined the lab in 2005 as a co-op student, and has since worked for General Motors on a Department of Energy fuel cell project shared with RIT. Her current work involves fuel cell water management research.
	Rishabh Srivastava Email Resume Rishabh Srivastava joined the Thermal Analysis and Microfluidics Laboratory in Fall 2008. He recieved his Bachelors degree in Mechanical engineering from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, India in June 2008. He is pursuing his MS degree in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in thermo/fluids. He is currently working on CFD Modeling and also studying theoretical aspects of laminar to turbulent flow transition.
	Rebecca Wagner Email Resume Rebecca Wagner joined the lab in the summer of 2008 after receiving her bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from RIT. Her thesis work will focus on the effects of roughness on laminar and turbulent fluid flow at the microscale level.
Co-op Students
	Whitney Domigan Email Resume Whitney Domigan is working towards a BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering. She is also working on a Creative Writing minor. Whitney works on data analysis and writing/editing for various papers that come out of the lab.
	Dwight Cooke Email Resume As a native of Castleton, NY, Dwight Cooke is a 4th year mechanical engineering student pursuing a degree in the aerospace engineering concentration. In the fuel cell lab, he is responsible for test fixture design. Previous experience has been at Getinge USA, Inc. in product testing and evaluation.
	Michael Grimm Email Resume Michael Grimm is a second year mechanical engineering student, and a huge car fanatic. The majority of his free time is spent working on cars or doing some sort of driving, both on and off road. For the past few years, he has followed the current trend to mainstream fuel cells into the automotive industry over the Internet. This co-op immediately was appealing due to its relationship to the automotive industry and his interests in the technology.
	Lukas Holsen Email Resume Luke Holsen is a 4th year Mechanical Engineering student. He is in the BioEngineering option and is also the Vice-President of the Club Soccer team. He currently works on the In-Situ DOE project.
M.S. Alumni
	Perry Young Email Resume Perry Young joined TAMFL during the winter of 2007 and is studying for a BS/MS degree in Mechanical Engineering.  Her thesis research involves studying the effect of surface roughness on heat transfer characteristics for microscale flows.
	Joaquin Pelaez Email Resume Joaquin Pelaez joined the Thermal Analysis Lab around winter 2006, studying the effects of freezing and thawing in PEM fuel cells. He completed his BS/MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering in 2007.
	Akhilesh Bapat Email Resume Akhilesh Bapat received his Bachelor’s degree from Government College of Engineering, Pune, India in 2004. He then spent a year working for Thermax India Ltd. on industrial boilers and vapor absorption chillers. In September of 2005, he joined the Thermal Analysis Lab in order to pursue an M.S. degree. He worked on single-phase and two-phase heat transfer in microchannels with electronics cooling application, graduating in 2007.
	Tim Brackbill Email Resume Tim Brackbill joined TAMFL in the summer of 2005 as a co-op student. He completed his B.S./M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in thermo/fluids in the Spring of 2008. His thesis topic extensively studied the effects of roughness on flow at the microscale level.
	Jeff Perry Email Resume Jeff Perry joined the TAMFL in the Spring of 2004.  He has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire and an M.S. in Microelectronic Engineering from RIT.  He has a strong background in semiconductor processing.  Jeff’s Master of Science thesis topic dealt with the effect of deposition pressure on sputtered tantalum film stress with applications to copper CMP (Chemical Mechanical Planarization).  Currently Jeff is pursuing his Ph.D. in Microsystems Engineering and his doctoral work will involve flow boiling of water in microchannels.
	Dr. Abhijit Mukherjee Post Doctoral Fellow Email Resume Dr. Mukherjee joined RIT’s TAMFL as a Post Doctoral Fellow. He was working on numerical analysis of an evaporating meniscus and flow boiling in microchannels.
	Mark E. Steinke Email Resume Mark joined the TAMFL in Fall of 2000 and has completed a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Thermal Fluids Science.  His thesis topic was the flow boiling of water in microchannels and the potential use of two-phase flows to provide an alternative for microprocessor cooling.  Currently, Mark is pursuing a Ph.D. in Microsystems Engineering while remaining in the lab.  His dissertation topic is the modeling, experimentation, and optimization of single-phase microchannel flows for direct, integrated cooling of microprocessors.
	Wai Keat Kuan Email Resume Wai Keat Kuan received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana State University and Rochester Institute of Technology, in 1996 and 2003, respectively. He worked at Sony, Inc. from 1996 to 1997, at Intel Technology from 1997 to 1999 and at Xerox Corporation from 1999 to 2002. He is pursuing his Ph.D. in Microsystems Engineering at the TAMFL, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. His doctoral work is on two-phase microchannel flows. Mr. Kuan is a member of ASME.
	John Borelli Email Resume John Borrelli worked in the precision tool-making industry as a New York State certified moldmaker for 10 years before completing his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering at RIT in May 2003. He has worked co-op blocks at the National Center for Remanufacturing and Resource Recovery, Pfaudler Inc. and Delphi and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in mechanical engineering with a concentration in thermo/fluids. His interests are micro/mini-channel flow in fuel-cell applications.
	Daniel Willstein Email Resume Dan Willistein received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from RIT in May, 2003. He completed co-op blocks at Delphi, GM and Calvary Automation, a local automated/assembly  machine design company. After graduation he worked at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems in Portsmouth, Rhode Island as a design engineer. He worked on the mechanical components of weapons data systems for submarine and surface ships. Taking an academic leave of absence in the fall of 2004, he enrolled in the master of science program in mechanical engineering at RIT and joined the TAMFL. He is currently working on two phase flow in minichannels for PEM fuel cell water management applications.
	Nathan English Email Resume Nathan English is completing the master of science program in mechanical engineering at RIT with a concentration in thermo/fluids. This builds upon the bachelor of science degree that he earned in physics from Roberts Wesleyan College. His thesis will investigate adiabatic two phase pressure drop of an air-water mixture in minichannels. His chief academic interests are heat transfer, micro fluidics, and fuel cell technology.
	Prabhu Balasubramanian Email Resume Prabhu Balasubramanian is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering Department at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York.  He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Madras in 2000. His M.S. thesis is on the study of Heat transfer and two-phase mechanisms during flow boiling in minichannels and microchannels, with applications to electronic cooling and fuel cells.  His other areas of research interest include Compact heat exchangers and CFD analysis.  He is also a member of ASME since 2001.
	Derek Schmitt Email Resume Derek is a BS/MS student currently working on finishing his thesis which studies the effects of pressure drop in micro and mini channels.  His professional interests include design and analysis, FEA, solid body mechanics, and micro fluidics.  Recently, Derek has been employed at Xerox Corporation where he was a design engineer for the DocuTech 120.  Previously, Derek worked at National Fuel Gas where he was in charge of  modeling and redesigning natural gas pipe networks.  Expected graduation is in March of 2004.
	Harshal R. Upadhye Email Resume Harshal joined the Thermal Analysis and Microfluidics Lab in 2002 as a MS in Mechanical Engineering student working on Microchannel optimization for electronics cooling applications. He defended his thesis titled 'Single Phase Thermohydraulic Performance Analysis of Microchannel Flow Geometry for Direct Chip Cooling' in 2004. Before joining RIT he got a BS in Mechanical Engineering from University of Pune, India. Harshal has worked with Delphi's Thermal Solutions group in the electronics cooling field. His interests include heat transfer, fluid dynamics and computers.
	David Hein Email Resume Dave Hein is a fourth year Mechanical Engineering student working in the Lab. He is currently working on a variety of different projects with the graduate students. The most recent project he worked on was for the Melles Griot vibration table setup. He designed an eightand-a-half foot long shelf system to straddle a table that will house all power and recirculation units for test setups on the table, and ordered all the parts to construct it. He has also worked with Mark Steinke on his current research project by machining some parts in the machine shop. Finally, he is working with some data on Critical Heat Flux.
	Dr. Junichi Ohara Visiting Faculty Email Resume Dr. Junichi Ohara is a visiting scholar at RIT’s TAMFL for 10 months from March 20, 2004 to January 20, 2005. Dr. Ohara is an associate professor from the Department of Digital Engineering, at Numazu College of Technology in Japan. Since 1993, he has been studying falling film evaporation in plate-fin heat exchangers. Eventually, Dr. Ohara would like to develop his work by adopting various methods to correlate a new evaporation heat transfer coefficient. While at RIT, Dr. Ohara will be researching flow boiling in microchannels. His professional memberships include The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers and The Heat Transfer Society of Japan.
	Narendra Patil Email Resume Narendra Patil completed his bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from India. Narendra is currently a grauduate student in the Computer for Integrated Manufacturing and System concentrating in Product Design. He is currently doing his thesis under the valuable guidance of Dr. Kandlikar and is working on Meniscus heat transfer project. He is confident that his research experience here will help him in the long run of his career.
	Kiran Sonawane Email Resume Kiran is pursuing a master’s degree in Computer Integrated Manufacturing System (CIMS). He has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical engineering from Pune, India. He has joined the Thermal Analysis and Microfluidics Lab as a spring CO-OP in 2003. He is currently working on his thesis, which involves design and fabrication of experimental set up for the meniscus behavior studie