2017, MIT Technology Review 1 of 10 Breakthrough Technologies
2017, Scientific American and World Economic Forum 1 of 10 Emerging Technologies
2017, MIT Committed to Caring Award
2016, ASME Electronics Packaging and Photonics Division Women of the Year Award
2015, ASME Fellow
2012 ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer
2012, ONR Young Investigator Award
2011, AFOSR Young Investigator Award
2008, DARPA Young Faculty Award
Related Experience
2013-2018, Associate Director of the Solid State Solar Thermal Energy Conversion (S3TEC) Center
Memberships
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Honor Society
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Fellow)
American Physical Society
Society of Women Engineers
Materials Research Society
American String Teachers Association
Professional Service
(Select Professional Service)
2013, Track Organizer, ASME International Conference of Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer
2013, Co-Organizer, International Workshop on Micro Nanostructures for Phase-Change Heat Transfer
2013, Guest Co-Editor, Special issue in Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering
2014, Technical Program Committee, IEEE NEMS 2014
2014, Guest Editor, Annual Review of Heat Transfer Volume 18
2015, Track Organizer, Interpack and ASME International Conference of Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer
2015, Symposium Co-Organizer, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting
2015, Vice-Chair and Co-Organizer, Gordon Research Conference, Micro and Nano Structures for Phase-Change Heat Transfer
2014-present, Associate Editor, Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering
2015, Executive Committee, Transducers 2015
2016, Co-Chair, ASME International Conference of Nanoscale, Microscale, and Minichannels
2017, Chair, Gordon Research Conference for Micro and Nano Structures for Phase-Change Heat Transfer
2017, Chair, ASME International Conference of Nanoscale, Microscale, and Minichannels
2017, Scientific Advisory Board, NSF Engineering Research Center for Power Optimization of Electro- Thermal Systems (POETS)
2017-present, Associate Editor, Journal of Heat Transfer
2018-present, Defense Science Study Group (DSSG)
MIT Service
(Select MIT Service)
2018-present Mechanical Engineering Department Head
2016-2017 MechE Strategic Planning Co-Chair
2014-2018, Co-Chair, MechE Lincoln Labs Task Force
Teaching
Thermal-Fluids Engineering I (2.005)
Thermal-Fluids Engineering II (2.006)
Intermediate Heat Transfer (2.51)
Advanced Heat Transfer (2.55)
Publications
(Select Publications)
Chu, K.-H., Xiao, R., and E.N. Wang, “Uni-directional Spreading on Asymmetric Nanostructured Surfaces,” Nature Materials, 9, 413-417, 2010.
Miljkovic, N. Enright, R., and E.N. Wang, "Effect of Droplet Morphology on Growth Dynamics and Heat Transfer during Condensation on Superhydrophobic Nanostructured Surfaces," ACS Nano, 6(2), 1776-1785, 2012.
Chu, K.H., Enright, R., and E.N. Wang, “Structured Surfaces for Enhanced Pool Boiling Heat Transfer,” Applied Physics Letters, 100(24), 241603, 2012.
Miljkovic, N, Enright, R., Nam, Y., Lopez, K., Dou, N., Sack, J., and E.N. Wang, “Jumping-Droplet-Enhanced Condensation on Scalable Superhydrophobic Nanostructured Surfaces,” Nano Letters, 13(1), 179-187, 2013.
Adera, S, Raj, R., Enright, R., and E.N. Wang, “Non-Wetting Droplets on Hot Superhydrophilic Surfaces,” Nature Communications, 4, 2013.
Miljkovic, N., Preston, D.J., Enright, R., and E.N. Wang, “Electrostatic Charging of Jumping Droplets on Superhydrophobic Surfaces,” Nature Communications, 4, 2013.
Lenert, A., Bierman, D.M., Nam, Y.-S., Chan, W.R., Celanovic, I., Soljacic, M., and E.N. Wang, “A Nanophotonic Solar Thermophotovoltaic Device.” Nature Nanotechnology, 9(2), p. 126-130, 2014.
Zhu, Y., Antao, D.S., Xiao, R., and E.N. Wang, "Real-Time Manipulation with Magnetically Tunable Structures," Advanced Materials, 26(37), p. 6442-6446, 2014.
Enright, R., Miljkovic, N., Sprittles, J., Nolan, K., Mitchell, R., and E.N. Wang, “How Coalescing Droplets Jump,” ACS Nano, 8(10), p. 10352–10362, 2014.
Raj, R., Adera, S., Enright, R., and E.N. Wang, “High-resolution Liquid Patterns via Three-Dimensional Droplet Shape Control,” Nature Communications, 5, 4975, 2014.
Cho, H.J., Mizerak, J.P., and E.N. Wang, "Turning Bubbles On and Off During Boiling Using Charged Surfactants," Nature Communications, 6, 2015.
Cho, H.J., Preston, D.J., Zhu, Y., and E.N. Wang, "Nanoengineered Materials for Liquid–vapour Phase-change Heat Transfer," Nature Reviews Materials, 2, p. 16092, 2016.
Bierman, D.M., A. Lenert, W.R. Chan, B. Bhatia, I. Celanovic, M. Soljacic, and E.N. Wang, "Enhanced Photovoltaic Energy Conversion Using Thermally-Based Spectral Shaping," Nature Energy, 1(5), 2016.
Kim, H., Rao, S.R., Narayanan, S., Kapustin, E.A., Yang, S., Furukawa, H., Umans, A.S., Yaghi, O.M., and E.N. Wang, "Response to Comment on “Water Harvesting from Air with Metal-organic Frameworks Powered by Natural Sunlight”," Science, 358(6367), 2017.
Lu, Z., Wilke, K. L.. Preston, D. J., Kinefuchi, I., Chang-Davidson, E., and E. N. Wang "An Ultrathin Nanoporous Membrane Evaporator" Nano Letters, 17(10), p. 6217-6220, 2017.
Kim, H., Rao, S.R., Kapustin, E.A., Zhao, L., Yang, S., Yaghi, O.M., and E.N. Wang, "Adsorption-based Atmospheric Water Harvesting Device for Arid Climates," Nature Communications, 9, 2018.
Wang, Evelyn, "Carbon-nanotube electrodes: Tailoring designs for energy storage, desalination," MITEI, 2017.
Patents
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Patent #6,942,018 “Electroosmotic Microchannel Cooling System,” K.E. Goodson, D.E. Huber, L. Jiang, T.W. Kenny, J-M Koo, J.C. Mikkelsen, J.G. Santiago, E.N. Wang, S. Zheng, L. Zhang, D. Laser, and C.-H. Chen, September 13, 2005.
Patent #8,678,075 “Heat Exchangers and Related Methods,” E.N. Wang, J.G. Brisson, J.H. Lang, S.A. Jacobson, and M. McCarthy, March 25, 2014.