Zahra Noori Awarded Internship at Mondelez
By Victoria Birk Hill February 1, 2022
Zahra Noori, a PhD student of Professor Jamal Yagoobi, has been awarded an internship by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to work at Mondelez International from January 1 to April 30, 2022. Zahra will be working with the R&D teams in East Hanover, NJ during her internship. Zahra is earning her PhD in Mechanical and […]
Students Meet, Fall in Love, Marry
By Victoria Birk Hill January 12, 2022
We wanted to share this special story. Four years ago, one of our graduate students, Zahra Noori, started working in Prof. Jamal Yagoobi’s research group. There she met Nathaniel O’Connor. Both are PhD students in Mechanical and Materials Engineering at WPI. Over the years, their friendship blossomed into something more. The happy couple married in […]
Technical Papers Presented at IMECE 2021
By Victoria Birk Hill November 22, 2021
Two of Professor Jamal Yagoobi’s technical papers were presented at this year’s International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE). The first paper, Experimental Study of Heat Transfer Characteristics of Drying Process with Dielectrophoresis Mechanism, focuses on an energy efficient method to enhance the drying rate of porous materials. More details about the paper and […]
NSF Phase II Funding Allows CARD to Focus on Energy Reduction
By Victoria Birk Hill October 15, 2021
The National Science Foundation has approved Phase II funding for the Center for Advanced Research in Drying (CARD) where MHT director, Jamal Yagoobi, serves as Director. This funding allows CARD to build upon five years of successful drying innovations in order to help reduce the considerable energy consumption by manufacturers across varying industries. According to […]
WPI Receives Combined $4 Million Award from Department of Energy and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
By Victoria Birk Hill September 15, 2020
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has received a $4 million award from the Department of Energy and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to support innovative advanced manufacturing research and development with a special focus on energy efficiency in industrial drying. This research is part of WPI’s work as the lead institution on the Center for Advanced Research […]
MHT Researchers Provide Invaluable Data to International Space Station
By Victoria Birk Hill January 5, 2020
In Fall 2019, two WPI Ph.D. students from the Multi-Scale Heat Transfer Laboratory, Nathaniel O’Connor and Alexander Castaneda, along with collaborators from Goddard Space Flight Center performed EHD experiments on several parabolic flights. These experiments provided valuable microgravity data to the team, paving the way for sending the Electrically-Driven Liquid Film Flow Boiling experiment to […]
Drying of Moist Porous Materials with Innovative Impinging Jet Nozzles
By mfarzad November 29, 2019
Impinging jets have many applications, including the heating or drying of food, paper, printer’s ink, tissue, textiles, chemicals, film, and the cooling of electrical equipment, turbine, and combustor components. They are also used in glass, metal, and plastics processing. The advantages of impinging jet systems include the ability to control local heat transport rates by […]
Innovative New Cooling System Facilitates Space Travel
By Victoria Birk Hill April 15, 2019
An innovative new method to cool spacecraft on long missions, technology that may one day play a crucial role in NASA’s quest to send astronauts to Mars and other deep-space destinations, has proven successful in a long-term experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The research is paving the way for an orbital test of […]