Mehrnoush Famil Dardashti Successfully Defends PhD
By Victoria Birk Hill December 16, 2024
We are pleased to share that MHT researcher and WPI student, Mehrnoush Famil Dardashti, successfully defended her PhD entitled, “Misting of Liquid and Dehydration of Moist Porous Media with Direct and Airborne Ultrasonic Wave – a Fundamental and Applied Study” on December 9th, 2024. Her research combines a fundamental understanding of ultrasonic atomization and integration […]
$2.75 Million DOE Grant Awarded for Energy Research
By Victoria Birk Hill November 19, 2024
We are thrilled to report that founding CARD director, Jamal Yagoobi, along with his research team have been awarded a $2.75 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to drastically cut emissions and energy use in industrial drying. “We are all excited about this — this is potentially a groundbreaking technology,” said Yagoobi. His team has […]
MHT Students – CARD Poster Winners
By Victoria Birk Hill October 30, 2024
We are pleased to announce that Mana Masrouri andHanshen Yu were poster winners at CARD’s Fall 2024 poster competition that was held October 9-11, 2024 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. Mana Masrouri won first place for her work on “EHD Driven Heat Pump for Low and Moderate Temperatures – A Novel Drying Technology” and […]
Jamal Yagoobi Receives WPI 2024 Board of Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Scholarship
By Victoria Birk Hill June 10, 2024
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 […]
Mucheng Li and Itamar Harris CARD Poster Winners
By Victoria Birk Hill May 30, 2024
We are pleased to announce Mucheng Li and Itamar Harris were poster winners at CARD’s May 2024 poster competition that was held May 15 – 17, 2024 at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Mucheng Li won 1st place for his work on “Optical Fiber Noses for Real-time, In-line Gas and Aroma Sensing in Drying”. Itamar Harris […]
Itamar Harris Awarded Mondelez Internship
By Victoria Birk Hill November 6, 2023
Itamar Harris, a Ph.D. student of Professor Jamal Yagoobi at WPI and a Fulbright Fellow from Panama, was awarded an internship by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to work at Mondelez International from June 19 to September 29, 2023. Itamar Harris worked with the R&D team in East Hanover, NJ, under the supervision of Dr. […]
CARD Student Poster Winners – October 2023
By Victoria Birk Hill October 27, 2023
We are pleased to announce the following winners of CARD’s October 2023 poster competition that was held at CARD’s industry advisory board meeting, October 11 – 13, 2023. 1st Place: Itamar Harris, WPI – “Enhancement of Drying of Moist Porous Media with Phase Change Material” 2nd Place: Mucheng Li, WPI – “Optical Fiber Noses for Real-time, In-line […]
Nathaniel O’Connor Successfully Defends PhD Dissertation
By Victoria Birk Hill August 30, 2023
We are pleased to announce that Multi-Scale Heat Transfer Lab researcher, Nathaniel O’Connor of WPI successfully defended his PhD dissertation in August 2023. The title of his thesis is “Electrohydrodynamically Driven Thermal Management for Space and Terrestrial Applications – An Experimental and Numerical Study”. Nathaniel joined MIT Lincoln Lab in September as Technical Staff. His […]
Researchers Present at EuroDrying 2023
By Victoria Birk Hill July 13, 2023
WPI student, Jacob Bouchard, along with his advisor, Dr. Douglas Petkie, were invited to present at the EuroDrying 2023 conference held in Łódź, Poland earlier this month. The title of their work was “Investigation of Effective Medium Theories in the Far Infrared for Pulp and Paper Applications.” MHT director, Dr. Jamal Yagoobi, was invited to […]
Zahra Noori O’Conner Successfully Defends PhD Dissertation
By Victoria Birk Hill February 20, 2023
We are pleased to announce that MHT researcher, Zahra Noori O’Connor of WPI, recently, and successfully, defended her PhD dissertation. Many industrial and university members joined for her presentation. The title of her thesis is “Fundamental Understanding of Removal of Water from a Moist Porous Medium in the Absence and Presence of Ultrasound Mechanism”. Her […]