News - Mehdi Mortazavi

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Conference attended, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Mar 2018

Mehdi Mortazavi attended the 3rd Thermal and Fluid Conference (TFEC) organized by American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE). In this conference, he presented "Analysis of Liquid-Gas Two-Phase Flow Pressure Drop Signature in Minichannels"

Journal paper accepted in Energy, Sep 2017

Mahbod Heidari, Mehdi Mortazavi, Alfred Rufer, Design, Modeling, and Experimental Validation of a Novel Finned Reciprocating Compressor for Isothermal Compressed Air Energy Storage Applications

Conference attended, Toronto, Canada, Aug 2017

Mehdi Mortazavi Attended 2017 International Conference on Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer in Toronto, Canada, and presented "Interaction Between Liquid Droplet Growth and Two-Phase Pressure Drop in PEM Fuel Cell Flow Channels". He also chaired the Heat Transfer session on this conference.

KEEN ICE Workshop, Denver, CO, Aug 2017

Mehdi Mortazavi attended KEEN Innovative Curriculum with Entrepreneurial mindset workshop (ICE) in Denver, CO. During this 3.5-day workshop, fundamental pedagogical techniques of EML, ACL, and PBL were discussed and practiced. In this workshop, he also designed and presented an EML module for his ME 304 - Thermodynamics II course.

Mehdi Mortazavi presenting the EML course module he designed during the workshop.

Senior design presentation award, WNE, May 2017

Luke Allison, an undergraduate ME student, received Best Senior Design Presentation Award in College of Engineering Senior Design Expo. Luke joined MTFL in Fall 2016 and collaborated with Kyle Barrett on his senior design project to study enhanced heat transfer by designing perforated fins for the application of residential baseboards. Congratulations Luke!

Luke Allison (left) presenting his senior design project in COE Senior Design Expo

KEEN Integrated e-Learning Module Workshop, Columbus, OH, June 2017

Mehdi Mortazavi attended KEEN Integrated e-Learning Module Workshop developed by University of New Haven. The module he will be developing is Thinking Creatively which will be deployed in his ME 303 - Thermodynamics I class.

KEEN Winter Conference, Jacksonville, FL, January 2017

Mehdi Mortazavi attended KEEN Winter Conference in Jacksonville, FL. Small ACL and EML modules were practiced in different modules during this conference.