FACULTY GRADUATE STUDENTS
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FACULTY ASSOCIATED WITH THE SOLAR ENGINEERING PROGRAM

 

  • Dr. Jack Apflebaum, Industrial Technology, Professor Emeritus (solar in developing countries, biomass digesters)
  • Dr. Michael H. Best, Manufacturing and MIS (manufacturing and energy)
  • Dr. John J. Duffy, Director (as of May 1996), Mechanical Engineering Department (solar electric vehicles, thermal testing of buildings, passive solar systems, PV systems, solar rural systems)
  • Dr. Dan Golomb, Environmental Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (energy and environment) 
  • Dr. Supriya Lahiri, Economics Department (energy and economics of developing countries)
  • Dr. Sam Mil'shtein, Electrical Engineering Department (PV cells, high school education programs) 
  • Dr. Robert Parkin, Mechanical Engineering Department (hybrid electric vehicles, manufacturing)
  • Alan Rux, Electrical Engineering Department (solar race cars, solar radios, controllers)
  • Dr. Ziyad Salameh, Electrical Engineering (wind, power electronics, electric cars)
  • Dr. James R. Sheff, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Department (wind and geothermal energy)
  • Dr. John R. White, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering (modeling and analysis of dynamic systems)

 

GRADUATE STUDENTS (recent)

 

 

 

  • ALUMNI

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    • Raul Raudales, Principal of Mesoamerican Development Institute (solar crop drying, solar water purification)
    • Guy Sliker (electric vehicle suitability for a variety of applications, project for MS in energy engineering, fall 1995)  (solar research at NYPA)
    • Joel Therrien (solar electrolizer; MS, August, 1997)
    • Glen Deming(Un-utilizability design tool predictions compard to measured thermal performance of passive residences)
    • Ed Walsh (cost-benefit analysis of passive solar features based on measured thermal performance)
    • Melhem Ash (phase-change solar collectors)
    • Fouad Younan (solar absorption cooling)
    • Harsh Puri (comparison of predicted and measured thermal performance indices with hourly thermal network models)
    • Jonathan Lynch (effect on utility load distributions of passive solar buildings)
    • Charles Nadel (design of two active solar heating systems)
    • Rohan Coelho (development of a microcomputer-based design tool with graphic input for concurrent thermal and visual analysis including natural convection heat transfer effects)
    • Joe Wiehagen (battery testing)  (National Assoc. Builders Research Center)
    • Jackson Mont-Louis
    • David Saunders (low-cost experimental method of estimating the thermal efficiency of small buildings)
    • Steve Ludwig (infiltration in multi-family housing)
    • J. Chowdiah (comparison of simulated and measured hourly thermal performance in six passive solar residences)
    • Tom Regan (selective surfaces)
    • David Bloom (loss-of-load probability prediction for stand-alone PV systems with random loads)
    • Stuart Frye (optimal control of stand-alone PV systems)  (deceased 1999)
    • Todd Robinson (multiple regression model of the thermal performance of a solar house)
    • Quimin Hu (design of a high solar fraction house)
    • Kevin Bourque (system identification of building thermal parameters)
    • Priyantha Wijesooriya (stand-alone PV system sizing based on both solar and reliability uncertainties)  (SELCO-Sri Lanka)
    • Yohannes Gebrgeoris (amorphous silicon photovoltaic system analysis and design for Ethiopia)
    • Brett Gouveia (uncertainty analysis of an empirical method for building thermal efficiency estimation)
    • Jose Fonseca (novel tidal energy generating plant)
    • Milton Danilo Diaz (passive solar house for Ecuador)
    • Isabel Merker (design of a solar thermal collector system for an electric bus)
    • Tim McGuire (GaAs photovoltaics for terrestrial applications)