Researchers Led by Jamal Yagoobi Send Experiment to Space Aboard Blue Origin Spacecraft
By Victoria Birk Hill October 20, 2025
A WPI experiment focused on a new way to prevent electronics from overheating flew into space Sept. 18, 2025, aboard a Blue Origin spacecraft, giving researchers led by Jamal Yagoobi a critical opportunity to advance their technology by testing it in zero-gravity and multi-gravity settings. The uncrewed suborbital flight lasted just over 10 minutes, including […]
MHT Students – CARD Presentation Winners
By Victoria Birk Hill October 15, 2025
We are pleased to announce that MHT students, Itamar Harris, Mana Masrouri, and Zahra Nazariharavani were winners of the presentation competition at CARD’s Fall Industry Advisory Board meeting, October 8-10, 2025 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. Itamar Harris tied for first place for her work on “Heating, Baking, and Drying with Laser Technology for […]
MHT Students – CARD Poster Winners
By Victoria Birk Hill May 30, 2025
We are pleased to announce that Mana Masrouri, Hanshen Yu, Zahra Nazariharavani, and Itamar Harris were poster winners at CARD’s Spring 2025 poster competition that was held May 28-30, 2025 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL. Mana Masrouri won second place for her work on “Hybrid EHD-Driven Heat Pump for Moderate/High Temperature Drying […]
Alex Castaneda Successfully Defends PhD
By Victoria Birk Hill April 28, 2025
We are pleased to share that the Multi Scale Heat Transfer Laboratory researcher and WPI student, Alex Castaneda, successfully defended his PhD entitled, “Understanding Heat Transfer Characteristics of Oscillating Electrohydrodynamic Conduction Pumping in the Presence and Absence of Phase Change” on April 14, 2025. His theoretical, numerical, and experimental work explored the impact of […]
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. […]