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Han receives AIAA award
Han receives AIAA award
COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Dr. Je-Chin Han, professor and the Marcus C. Easterling Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has received the 2004 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Thermophysics Award.
Han was honored at an awards luncheon at the AIAA 37th Thermophysics Conference in June in Portland, Oregon. During the conference, Han also gave an invited lecture, "Turbine Blade Cooling Studies at Texas A&M - 1980-2004."
The AIAA Thermophysics Award is given annually for an outstanding singular or sustained technical or scientific contribution by an individual in thermophysics, specifically as related to the study and application of the properties and mechanisms involved in thermal energy transfer and the study of environmental effects on such properties and mechanisms. The citation for Han's award reads: "For significant contributions to heat transfer augmentation in gas turbine blade cooling, heat transfer in rotating flows, and film cooling in unsteady high turbulent flows."
Han has worked with heat transfer in rotating machinery for 24 years and is known internationally for his pioneering work in advanced turbine blade cooling for gas turbines. Han was the recipient of the 2002 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award and the recipient of the 2004 ISROMAC Heat Transfer Award.
Han's research at Texas A&M, sponsored by NASA, DOE, GE and Siemens Westinghouse focuses primarily on a goal of reducing cooling flow requirements in gas turbines. Dr. Han is working to improve gas turbine engine thermal efficiency and durability of newly developed super-cooled blades.
Han joined the Texas A&M mechanical engineering faculty as an assistant professor in 1980, attaining the rank of full professor in 1989, Heat Transfer Research Inc. (HTRI) professor in 1993 and was named the Marcus C. Easterling Chair in 2001.
Han earned his bachelor's degree from National Taiwan University, his master's from Lehigh University and his doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in mechanical engineering. He has authored or co-authored more than 140 journal publications and is co-author of a textbook, Gas Turbine Heat Transfer and Cooling Technology (Taylor & Francis Inc.).
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is the principle society of aerospace engineers and has been in existence for more than 70 years.
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Source: Dr. Je-Chin Han
jchan@mengr.tamu.edu
Reporter: Bonnie L. Shortner
teeswriter1@tamu.edu
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