John H. Lienhard V

Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Executive Officer
Director, Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy at MIT and KFUPM

Room 3-162
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
Phone: 617-253-3790
Email: lienhard@mit.edu
Web: http://lienhard.scripts.mit.edu/research/

Administrative Contact:
Laura E. Kampas
Room 3-354
Phone: 617-452-4123
Email: lkampas@mit.edu

Education

1982, BS, University of California, Los Angeles (Summa Cum Laude)
1984, MS, University of California, Los Angeles
1988, PhD, University of California, San Diego

Honors and Awards

1988, Presidential Young Investigator Award, NSF
1991, Best Paper Award, 26th ASME/AIChE National Heat Transfer Conference
1992, Ralph R. Teetor Award, SAE
1993, Ruth and Joel Spira Teaching Award, MIT School of Engineering
1994, Graduate Student Council Teaching Award, MIT
1996, R&D 100 Award
1999, Carl R. Soderberg Distinguished Service Award, MIT
2000, Fellow of ASME
2003, Den Hartog Distinguished Educator Award, MIT

2008, Samuel C. Collins Chaired Professorship

Research Interests

Desalination; Water Supply; Energy;

Heat and Mass Transfer; Fluid Mechanics; Convective Transport;

Extremely High Heat Fluxes; Electronics Thermal Management

Teaching Interests

Heat and Mass Transfer (2.51)
Fluid Mechanics (2.26)
Thermodynamics

Desalination (2.500)
Modelling and Approximation in Thermal Systems (2.52)
Measurement and Instrumentation

Free electronic textbook: A Heat Transfer Textbook, Third Edition

Instrumentation Textbook --- recently released: Mechanical Measurements, Sixth Edition

Some Positions Held

Editorial Board, Desalination and Water Treatment: January 2009-present

Director, Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy at MIT and KFUPM, June 2008-present (CCWCE)

Executive Officer, Department of Mechanical Engineering: July 2008-present

Undergraduate Officer, Department of Mechanical Engineering: July 2005 - present

ABET Accreditation Coordinator of ME Department: July 2005 - June 2008

Head, Division of Fluids, Energy, and Transport: August 2001 - July 2005
Editorial Board, Journal of Heat Transfer: 2003 - 2006
Editorial Board, Acta Mechanica: 2003 - present
Chairman, ME Faculty Hiring Committee: August 2001 - July 2005
Chairman, Institute Committee on the Library System: June 1999 - June 2001
Chairman, ME Strategic Planning Committee: September 1997 - July 2000
Director, Rohsenow Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory: July 1997 - present (HMTL)
Editorial Board, Experimental Heat Transfer: March 1995 - present
State Implementation Plan Steering Cmt. for Air Quality, Massachusetts DEP: August 1994 - present (Air quality)
Hatsopoulos Professor: July 1988 - June 1991
Joined MIT Faculty: January 1988

Memberships

American Society of Mechanical Engineers
American Association for the Advancement of Science
PE Registration, Massachusetts
Tau Beta Pi

Scientific Council of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer