Cullen R. Buie

Assistant Professor

Room 3-248
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
Phone: 617-253-9379
Email: crb@mit.edu
Web: http://web.mit.edu/lemi/

Education
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University. 2008
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 2005

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University, 2003

Research Interests

fuel cells (PEMFC, DMFC, SOFC), microfluidics, biologically enabled energy systems, carbon neutral energy systems, experimental fluid mechanics, two phase flow

Honors and Awards

University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship

Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

Link Foundation Energy Fellowship

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Professional Affiliations

American Society of Mechanical Engineering

The Electrochemical Society

National Society of Black Engineers

Academic Apointments

Jan 2010, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT

Oct 2008 - Dec 2009, Visiting Scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT

Oct 2008 - Dec 2009, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Select Publications

1. Buie, C. R.; and J.G. Santiago, “Two Phase Hydrodynamics in a Miniature Direct Methanol Fuel Cell,” submitted to the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2008.

2. Buie, C. R.; Kim, D.; Litster, S.; and J.G. Santiago, “An Electroosmotic Fuel Pump for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells,” Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, 2007, 10, p. B196.

3. Litster, S., Buie, C. R., Fabian, T., Eaton, J. K., and J.G. Santiago, “Active Water Management for PEM Fuel Cells,” Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2007, 154, p. B1049.

4. Buie, C.R., Posner, J.D., Fabian, T., Cha, S.W., Kim, D., Prinz, F.B., Eaton, J.K., and J.G. Santiago, “Water Management in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells using Integrated Electroosmotic Pumping,” Journal of Power Sources, 2006, 161, p.191.