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FACULTY ASSOCIATED WITH THE SOLAR ENGINEERING PROGRAM
Dr. Jack Apflebaum, Industrial Technology, Professor Emeritus (solar in developing countries, biomass digesters)
Dr. Michael H. Best, Manufacturing and MIS, Professor Emeritus (manufacturing and energy)
Dr. John J. Duffy, Director (as of May 1996), Mechanical Engineering Department (solar electric vehicles, thermal testing of buildings, passive solar systems, PV systems, solar rural systems)
Dr. Dan Golomb, Environmental Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (energy and environment)
Dr. Supriya Lahiri, Economics Department (energy and economics of developing countries)
Dr. Sam Mil'shtein, Electrical Engineering Department (PV cells, high school education programs)
Dr. Robert Parkin, Mechanical Engineering Department (hybrid electric vehicles, manufacturing)
Alan Rux, Electrical Engineering Department (solar race cars, solar radios, controllers)
Dr. Ziyad Salameh, Electrical Engineering (wind, power electronics, electric cars)
Dr. James R. Sheff, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Department (wind and geothermal energy)
Dr. John R. White, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering (modeling and analysis of dynamic systems)
GRADUATE STUDENTS (recent)
Walter Lee (MS in process)
George Nitschke (solar ponds, D. Eng. candidate)
Nto Diarra (stochastic systems approach to solar design, D. Eng. in process).
Herbert Sinnock (thermal collector shape optimization, MS spring 2000; D.Eng. candidate)
Peter Dubro (MS in process)
Nelly Vladimirsky (MS in process)
Dismas Makori (MS in process)
Salinee Tavaranan (MS in process)
Peter Aurora (MS in process)
Juan Pablo Trelles (MS in process)
Ittipon Tungarayasub (MS in process)
Christopher Lin (MS in process)
Sandeep Baidwan (MS in process)
Kushagra Nandan (MS in process)
Elena Franzen (Fulbright scholar here for one year from Germany)
Somchai Jiajitsawat (D. Eng. candidate)
Ujjwal Bhattacharjee (D. Eng. candidate)
Nto Diarra (D. Eng. candidate)
Nuchida Suwapaet (D. Eng. candidate)
George Nitschke (D. Eng. candidate)
Vinay Kamur (DEng in process)
ALUMNI
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Daniel Shapiro (solar electrolyzer/fuel cell system)
Adarsh Das (MS)
Vinay Kumar (MS)
Numpol Sathonpattanakij (MS)
Chien-Hsi Chien (phase-change heating system for electric vehicles with zero tailpipe emissions, D. Eng., fall 1997)
Harish Hande (rural solar electrification in India, MS 1997; D. Eng., fall 1999)
Michael Reinhardt (optimal design methods for multiple solar technologies, D. Eng., spring 2000)
Alison Arkin (solar electrolizer mathematical model; MS 2000)
Kirsten Holmen-Cabanas (electrochemical etching of PV cells; MS spring, 2000)
Craig Munger (measurements and analysis of thermal-PV collectors MS)
Dennis Villanueva (PV workshop development for rural Peru, MS 2000)
Sirikul Prasitpianchai (solar cooling, MS, spring 1999)
Terry Lee (reliability of PV systems with autocorrelated inputs cross-correlated with output requirements, MS thesis, mechanical engineering, spring 1999)
Luis Alegria (data acquisition system for remote PV systems; MS )
Stephanie Menegus (solar house design for Habitat for Humanity; energy conservation graduate certificate, fall 1999)
Steve Fernandez (battery additive effect on cycle life, MS fall 2001)
Isabel Merker (Fulbright Fellow from Germany; solar heating system for electric buses)
Raul Raudales, Principal of Mesoamerican Development Institute (solar crop drying, solar water purification)
Guy Sliker (electric vehicle suitability for a variety of applications, project for MS in energy engineering, fall 1995) (solar research at NYPA)
Joel Therrien (solar electrolizer; MS, August, 1997)
Glen Deming(Un-utilizability design tool predictions compard to measured thermal performance of passive residences)
Ed Walsh (cost-benefit analysis of passive solar features based on measured thermal performance)
Melhem Ash (phase-change solar collectors)
Fouad Younan (solar absorption cooling)
Harsh Puri (comparison of predicted and measured thermal performance indices with hourly thermal network models)
Jonathan Lynch (effect on utility load distributions of passive solar buildings)
Charles Nadel (design of two active solar heating systems)
Rohan Coelho (development of a microcomputer-based design tool with graphic input for concurrent thermal and visual analysis including natural convection heat transfer effects)
Joe Wiehagen (battery testing) (National Assoc. Builders Research Center)
Jackson Mont-Louis
David Saunders (low-cost experimental method of estimating the thermal efficiency of small buildings)
Steve Ludwig (infiltration in multi-family housing)
J. Chowdiah (comparison of simulated and measured hourly thermal performance in six passive solar residences)
Tom Regan (selective surfaces)
David Bloom (loss-of-load probability prediction for stand-alone PV systems with random loads)
Stuart Frye (optimal control of stand-alone PV systems) (deceased 1999)
Todd Robinson (multiple regression model of the thermal performance of a solar house)
Quimin Hu (design of a high solar fraction house)
Kevin Bourque (system identification of building thermal parameters)
Priyantha Wijesooriya (stand-alone PV system sizing based on both solar and reliability uncertainties) (SELCO-Sri Lanka)
Yohannes Gebrgeoris (amorphous silicon photovoltaic system analysis and design for Ethiopia)
Brett Gouveia (uncertainty analysis of an empirical method for building thermal efficiency estimation)
Jose Fonseca (novel tidal energy generating plant)
Milton Danilo Diaz (passive solar house for Ecuador)
Isabel Merker (design of a solar thermal collector system for an electric bus)
Tim McGuire (GaAs photovoltaics for terrestrial applications)
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