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Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
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Welcome to the website of Dr. Andrew Sommers, a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
This website was launched in December 2007 and is a true work in progress so please contact me if you have trouble viewing the site. Its primary purpose is to introduce my areas of research interest, examine the relevance of thermal sciences to everyday life, and hopefully attract some students! If you are interested in joining my research group as an undergraduate (or graduate) research assistant, please feel free to contact me by email. When you do, please attach a copy of your resume. | 
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My main research interests include energy systems, surface wettability, and enhanced air-side heat transfer in air-conditioning and refrigeration applications. Currently, I am studying the single-phase, convective heat transfer behavior of nanofluids as well as investigating functionalized surfaces for improved condensate management on aluminum fin stock.
Researchers in my group work at the interface
of heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and surface chemistry. In doing so, they gain valuable skills in
each of these areas as well as a better understanding of data acquisition (DAQ), experimental uncertainty, and thermometry. Although prior experience is helpful, it is not necessary- only a willingness to learn and to work. Depending on the project, you may also be asked to perform basic wet chemistry and surface characterization tests to varying
degrees. There are presently opportunities for one undergraduate student and one graduate student in my lab. Please check out the research page for more
information.
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| A Somewhat Recent Picture of Research Group (07/15/10) |
| From left: Rong Yu (Grad); Jia Ying (Grad); Tim Hanson (UGrad); Justin Gossard (Grad) |
| Missing: Tyler Brest (Grad); Justin DeCamp (UGrad); Laura Bendula (UGrad); Adam Fagin (UGrad) |
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News:
- (2011-11-28) Justin defends his M.S. thesis after presenting his research at the ASME IMECE2011 conference in Denver, CO
- (2011-06-28) Rong passes her M.S. thesis defense and prepares to depart for the University of Illinois to pursue her Ph.D.
- (2010-08-10) Served as session chair and presented a paper at the International Heat Transfer Conference (IHTC-14) in Washington, D.C.
- (2010-07-21) Jia successfully defends her M.S. thesis and is bound for Columbia University.
- (2009-08-24) Started a project with WPAFB involving the computational modeling of a thermal management system (Funding: DOD/UES).
- (2009-03-27) Awarded funding from the California Energy Commission through their Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) program.
- (2009-02-25) Selected to be a Faculty Fellow in the 2009 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP) at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
- (2008-08-01) Served as a 2008 Undergraduate Summer Scholars (USS) Program mentor for a student doing research on single-phase nanofluids.
- (2008-07-14) Presented my research at the 12th Int'l Refrig. & Air Conditioning Conf. at Purdue. Please see
Publications section for a complete list of published papers.
- (2008-03-19) Selected for the 2008 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program at AFRL/RZP Wright-Patterson AFB
- (2008-02-06) Recipient of the 2008-2009 ASHRAE New Investigator Award.
- (2007-11-30) The rame/-hart contact angle goniometer and other miscellaneous lab equipment arrived.
- (2007-06-19) Spent nearly two weeks at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, CHINA where I gave a seminar presentation and developed collaborative ties with the Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics located there.
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