Jamal Yagoobi Receives WPI 2024 Board of Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship

Jamal Yagoobi Receives WPI 2024 Board of Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship

By Victoria Birk Hill June 10, 2024

Featured left to right are: Mark Richman – Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering, Secretary of the Faculty; Jagan Srinivasan – Associate Professor, Biology and Biotechnology Department; Jamal Yagoobi – George F. Fuller Professor of Mechanical & Materials Engineering and CARD Director; Grace Wang – President, WPI; Joyce Kline – WPI Board of Trustees Vice Chair; Art Heinricher – Interim Senior Vice President and Provost

We are thrilled to share that MHT director, Jamal Yagoobi, received the WPI 2024 Board of Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Scholarship.

He was recognized for his extraordinary contributions to the fields of heat and mass transfer, and his profound impact on academia, industry, and the global research community.

Jamal has made significant contributions to understanding the physical and theoretical mechanisms of drying and thermal processes. He has documented his legacy by an impressive number of publications, accomplishments, and high caliber research. In the words of his peers – “his research and teaching abilities are unparalleled.”

Jamal is an innovator in research, pioneering work in non-mechanical heat transfer technologies and drying solutions that have revolutionized industries critical to our nation’s energy and sustainability goals. Read more.