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Professor
Leon Glicksman
Professor of Building Technology & Mechanical Engineering
Interests
- Energy efficiency in buildings
- Natural ventilation
- Developing countries
Faculty Details
Education
-
1959
MIT
BS -
1960
Stanford
MS -
1964
MIT
PhD
Research Interests
- Passive means to achieve energy efficiency in buildings in India
- Natural ventilation in buildings
- Simple design tools for energy
- Thermal insulation
- Heat transfer
Honors + Awards
- Melville Medal of ASME,
- Robert T. Knapp Award of the Fluids Division of ASME
- ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award
- ASME Fellow
- ASHRAE Fellow
Memberships
- ASME
- ASHRAE
- AIChE
MIT Service
- Faculty Policy Committee
- Undergraduate Admission and Financial Aid
- Nominations
- ROTC Oversight
- Killian Faculty Achievement Award
- Medical Consumers Advisory Council
- Committee on Studnet Life
Teaching
- 2.52J Modeling and Approximation of Thermal Processes
- 2.51 Intermediate Heat and Mass Transfer
- 2.58J Radiative Transfer
- 2.66J Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings
- 2.672 Project Laboratory
- 4.464 Energy in Building Design
- 4.481 Building Technology Seminar
- 4.428 Architectural Thermal and Fluid Mechanics
Patents
- US Patent 3,804,155 Gas-Liquid Periodic Heat Exchanger 4/16/74 [filed Jan 24, 1973, SN# 326,314]
- US Patent 4,269,796 Wet/Dry Cooling Tower and Method 5/26/1981 [filed August 16, 1976 SN# 714,557]
- US Patent 4,534,119 Apparatus and method for drying insulation 8/13/85 [filed June 23, 1983 SN# 506,574
- US Patent 4,894,709 Forced-convection Liquid-Cooled, Microchannel Heat Sinks 1/16/90 [filed March 9, 1988 SN#166,512
- US Patent 5,010,112 Method and apparatus for improving the insulating properties of closed cell-foam 4/23/91 [filed 1/1/89 SN# 444,673]
- US Patent 5,032,439 Thermal Insulations using vacuum panels July 16, 1991 Glicksman, L.R. and [filed August 25, 1989 SN# 398,788]