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Curriculum Vitae Brent C. Houchens

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Research Interests........................................................................................................................................................ 1 Rank .............................................................................................................................................................................. 1 Education...................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Course Development/Enhancement ........................................................................................................................... 1 Teaching ....................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Undergraduate Involvement in Research .................................................................................................................. 5 Undergraduate Fellowship Advising .......................................................................................................................... 8 Thesis Committees ....................................................................................................................................................... 9 Refereed Journal Publications .................................................................................................................................. 10 Journal Articles in Preparation ................................................................................................................................ 11 Peer Reviewed Publications in Conference Proceedings ........................................................................................ 12 Invited Talks .............................................................................................................................................................. 14 Conference Presentations .......................................................................................................................................... 16 Other Presentations (advised) .................................................................................................................................. 21 Grant Proposals (funded).......................................................................................................................................... 22 Funded Grant Proposals for Student Initiatives and Education ........................................................................... 24 Grant Proposals (under review) ............................................................................................................................... 24 Grant Proposals (submitted) .................................................................................................................................... 25 Other Grants Received .............................................................................................................................................. 26 Awards ........................................................................................................................................................................ 27 Professional Development and Professional Society Membership ........................................................................ 28 Service ......................................................................................................................................................................... 29

Service to Rice University ..................................................................................................................................... 29 Service to Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science ...................................................... 30 Service to External Professional Community ...................................................................................................... 31

Community Outreach ................................................................................................................................................ 34

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BRENT CHARLES HOUCHENS – CURRICULUM VITAE Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science [email protected] Rice University, MS-321 office phone: (713) 348-3546 6100 Main Street cell phone: (832) 622-5651 Houston, TX 77005 www.mems.rice.edu/houchens

Research Interests

Coupling engineering education and outreach. Mentoring undergraduates in research. Solar and wind energy. Computational and analytical modeling for thermal-fluids systems.

Rank

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Department Rice University, July 1, 2005 - present

Education

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering 2005 Dissertation: Multi-scale Model of the Stability of a Laterally Heated Liquid Bridge

under the Influence of an Axial Magnetic Field

M.S. Mechanical Engineering 2001 Thesis: Numerical Study of the Linear Stability of Flows Related to Float-zone

Crystal Growth Processing in Microgravity with and without an Applied Magnetic Field

B.S. Mechanical Engineering 2000 (with honors)

Course Development/Enhancement

Mech 200 (Classical Thermodynamics) Implemented TEST: The Expert System for Thermodynamics (thermofluids.net) from SDSU. Collaborated in Bucknell study in misconceptions in thermodynamics. Arranged for guided tours of new chilled water plant. Mech 407/408 (Capstone Design) Added modules on technology transfer, business planning and Engineering Economics (covered on the FE Exam) to Mech 407 – 408 (Capstone Senior Design). The interdisciplinary nature of the course was enhanced by planning projects that incorporate BIOE’s, ELEC’s and CEVE’s on design teams. In collaboration with Dr. Fathi Ghorbel and Schlumberger, teams also collaborated with French engineering students in Paris, France. The visibility of the department will be increased via a poster presentation session in the spring of 2008. Representatives from industry, academia and government agencies will be invited to attend the poster session.


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Mech 372, 473/573 Assisted in combining Mech 372 (Fluid Mechanics II) and Mech 573 (Advanced Fluid Mechanics I) into a cross-listed course Mech 473/573 (Advanced Fluid Mechanics I) to replace the previously mentioned courses. It is envisioned that Mech 473/573 will be offered in the spring, beginning in spring 2008. This restructuring places Mech 473/573 at the proper level, consistent with other cross-listed courses, and in-line with the requirements of the ABET and SACS accreditation agencies. It also improves the efficiency of the department’s teaching load, while offering both a graduate and undergraduate level course regularly. This course had not been taught at the graduate level for several years prior to 2006. Mech 574 Reinstated Mech 574 (Advanced Fluid Mechanic II) in the Fall of 2008. This critical graduate fluid mechanics course cover topics such as inviscid flow, inviscid and viscous stability theory, transition and isotropic turbulence. Examples including magnetohydrodynamic stirring and damping are introduced from my research. This class had not been taught for more than four years previously.

Teaching

semester course title enrolment number of responses

percent of load

overall effectiveness of instructor score 1-outstanding

to 5-poor

F 2005 Mech 593 Mechanical Eng. Problems 2 2 100 1.00

S 2006 Mech 372 Fluid Mechanics II 29 15 100 1.00

F 2006 Mech 573 Adv. Fluid Mechanics I 20 9 100 1.11

Mech 407 Capstone Design (advised 2 groups) 4 / 5 0 / 2 2 groups 1.50

S 2007

Mech 200 Classical Thermodynamics 44 41 100 1.34

Mech 408 Capstone Design (advised 2 groups) 4 / 5 0‡ / 5 2 groups 1.40

Mech 308 Junior Observers (final course organization) 4 N/A† final org N/A†

Mech 408 Senior Design (final course organization)

43 (includes 3 ELECs

and 2 BIOEs) N/A† final org N/A†

Mech 593 Mechanical Eng. Problems 2 N/A‡ 100 N/A‡

† students rank group advisors only ‡ course survey unavailable to students for courses of less than 3 students prior to 2010


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F 2007

Mech 308 Junior Observer (advised one junior observer) 1 N/A‡ 100 N/A‡

Mech 308 Junior Observers (course organization) 5 N/A† 100 N/A†

Mech 407 Capstone Design (advised 2 groups) 3 / 6 2/3 2 groups 1.00/1.33

Mech 407 Capstone Design (course organization/lectures) 50** N/A† 100 N/A†


S 2008


Mech 308 Junior Observers (course organization) 1 N/A† 100 N/A†

Mech 408 Capstone Design (advised 2 groups) 3 / 6 unknown§ 2 groups unknown§

Mech 408 Capstone Design (course organization/lectures) 50** N/A† 100 N/A†

Mech 593 Mechanical Eng. Problems 2 unknown§ 100/50 unknown§

Mech 612 Independent Study (Magnetohydrodynamics) 1 1 100 1.00

F 2008 Mech 574 Adv. Fluid Mechanics II 7 7 100 1.14


S 2009 Mech 200 Classical Thermodynamics 63 62 100 1.21


F 2009 Mech 593 Mechanical Eng. Problems 5 3 100 1.33

S 2010 Mech 200 Classical Thermodynamics 43 42 100 1.24

† students rank group advisors only ‡ course survey unavailable to students for courses of less than 3 students prior to 2010


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F 2010

Mech 371 Fluid Mechanics 47 43 100 1.47

Mech 407 Capstone Design (advised/co-advised 2 groups) 5/4 5/3 100/50 1.20/1.33

Mech 593 Mechanical Eng. Problems 2 1 100 1.00

Mech 611 Independent Study 2 2 100 1.00

S 2011


Mech 408 Capstone Design (advised/co-advised 2 groups) 5/4 5/4 100/50 1.00/1.00

Mech 490 Mech. Eng. Research Projects 1 1 100 1.00

F 2011 Mech 407 Capstone Design (co-advised 1 group) 5 N/A† consult N/A†

S 2012


Mech 408 Capstone Design (co-advised 1 group) 5 N/A† consult N/A†

Mech 473 Advance Fluid Mechanics I (undergraduate version) 19 19 100 1.21

Mech 490 Mechanical Engineering Research Projects 3 2 100 1.00

Mech 573 Advance Fluid Mechanics I (graduate version) 6 5 100 1.20

F2012

Engi 120 Intro to Engineering Design (technical advisor for 2 groups) 5/5 N/A* consult N/A*

Mech 371 Fluid Mechanics 67 55 100 1.05

Mech 593 Mechanical Eng. Problems 3 3 100 1.67

† students rank group advisors only * students rank overall course organizer


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Undergraduate Involvement in Research

Fall 2012 Jenny Small (visiting senior mech, Kyle Valley (senior mech) topic –2D Ultrasonic Doppler Velocimetry

Summer 2012

Kyle Valley (rising senior mech), Leslie Nguyen (rising junior chem-e), Alejandro Rodela (rising senior mech) topic –Design of Wind Turbines Carried out by Underserved High School Mentees Allison Garza (sophomore mech), Joseph Song (sophomore mech) Mech 490 - Redesign of a Wheelchair for a Patient with Arthrogryposis Spring 2012

Duncan Eddy (junior mech), Nathan Martin (junior mech) topic – Ultrasonic Doppler Velocimetry of Rotating Lid Flow

Angie Bautista-Chavez (junior polysci.), Allison Garza (sophomore mech), Stephanie Herkes (senior mech), Kurt Kienast (senior mech), Nick McClendon (junior mech), Aaron Sharpe (sophomore physics)

topic – Motivations of Volunteer DREAM Mentors Fall 2011

Duncan Eddy (junior mech), Nathan Martin (junior mech) topic – Ultrasonic Doppler Velocimetry of Rotating Lid Flow

Angie Bautista-Chavez (junior polysci.), Allison Garza (sophomore mech), Stephanie Herkes (senior mech), Kurt Kienast (senior mech), Nick McClendon (junior mech), Aaron Sharpe (sophomore physics)

topic – Motivation of Volunteer DREAM Mentors Summer 2011

Duncan Eddy (rising junior mech), Nathan Martin (rising junior mech) topic – Ultrasonic Doppler Velocimetry of Rotating Lid Flow

Angie Bautista-Chavez (rising junior polysci.) topic – Demographics of DREAM Mentees

Spring 2011 Edward Biegert (senior mech), Rachel Jackson (senior mech), Duncan Eddy (sophomore mech) topic – Ultrasonic Doppler Velocimetry of Rotating Lid Flow Andres Goza (senior mech) topic – Modeling Solidification of Ternary Alloy Crystal Growth Fall 2010 Edward Biegert (senior mech), Rachel Jackson (senior mech), Chad Kong (senior mech) topic – Ultrasonic Doppler Velocimetry of Rotating Lid Flow

Michael Hiesel (junior mech), Kurt Kienast (junior mech), Ronak Patel (junior mech) topic –Data Acquisition and Analysis of the ZeRow Solar Decathlon House


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Angie Bautista-Chavez (sophomore polysci.), Andres Goza (senior mech), Kurt Kienast (junior mech), Sam Oke (senior ceve), Chad Kong (senior mech)

topic – Assessment of Mini-Lecture Effectiveness in DREAM Summer 2010 Edward Biegert (rising senior mech) topic – Review of Cell Models for Hydrodynamic Forces on Spherical Objects

Michael Hiesel (rising junior mech), Kurt Kienast (rising junior mech), Ronak Patel (rising junior mech)

topic – Instrumentation, Data Acquisition and Analysis of the ZeRow Solar Decathlon House

Angie Bautista-Chavez (rising sophomore polysci.), Natalia Salies (finishing senior cheme), Rachel Jackson (rising senior mech), Andres Goza (rising senior mech)

topic – Statistical Analysis of the Outcomes of DREAM Dandan Li (rising senior mech), Tremayne Kaseman (rising junior mech), Leslie Miller (rising junior mech), Stephanie Herkes (rising junior mech), co-Advised with Dr. David McStravick topic – Experimental Analysis of Redesigned Wind Turbine Blades Ara Parsekian (rising senior mech) topic – Benchmarking an In-House Spectral Element CFD Code

Spring 2010 Andres Goza (junior mech) topic – Modeling Solidification of Ternary Alloy Crystal Growth Fall 2009

David Garland (senior mech), Andres Goza (junior mech), Rachel Jackson (junior mech), Natalia Salies (senior cheme), Matt Sorenson (junior mech), Chad Kong (junior mech)

topic - Assessment of the DREAM Program’s Effectiveness for Encouraging Under-represented High School Students to Pursue Engineering Studies

Edward Biegart (junior mech), Rachel Jackson (junior mech), Kurt Kienast (sophomore mech) topic - Ultrasonic Doppler Velocimetry in Incompressible Flow Andres Goza (junior mech) topic – Modeling Solidification of Ternary Alloy Crystal Growth Travis Martin (junior computer science) topic - Data Acquisition on the ZeRow Solar Decathlon House Summer 2009 Andres Goza (rising junior), Stephanie Tritchler (May 2009 graduate) topic – Characterization of Ternary Alloy Crystal Growth (completed at Hanscom AFB) Brian Zall (rising junior) topic – Applied Water Treatment for Schools and Clinics in Developing Nations

Jordan Davis (rising senior), Edward Biegert (rising junior) and Kurt Kienast (rising sophomore), co-Advised with Dr. Marcie O’Malley topic – Magnetic Stirring in Crystal Growth


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Spring 2009 Emily Jacob (junior mech) and Brian Zall (sophomore mech) topic – Water Treatment and Education in Developing Nations Stephanie Rice (senior mech) and Daniela Rimer (senior bioe) topic – Assessment of the D.R.E.A.M. Outreach Program

Natalia Salies (junior chem e), Matthew Sorenson (sophomore mech), Rachel Jackson (sophomore mech), David Garland (junior mech) and Andres Goza (sophomore mech)

topic – Advancement of the Effectiveness of the D.R.E.A.M. Program

Fall 2008 Emily Jacob (junior mech), Brian Zall (sophomore mech) and Matthew Sorenson (sophomore mech)

topic – Water Treatment and Education in Developing Nations Stephanie Rice (senior mech) and Daniela Rimer (senior bioe)

topic – Assessment of the D.R.E.A.M. Outreach Program Summer 2008 Emily Jacob (rising junior mech) and Matthew Sorenson (rising sophomore mech) topic – Water Treatment and Education in Developing Nations Spring 2008 Laura Campo (senior mech) and Stephanie Rice (junior mech) topic – Assessment of the D.R.E.A.M. Outreach Program Brandon Chalifoux (senior mech) and Tim Burke (senior physics) topic – Design for Manufacturability Study of the Adaptive WaTER Laboratory Mike Romaniuk (visiting junior mech), co-Advised with Dr. Jamie Padgett Mech 593 – Shape Memory Alloys for Bridge Monitoring Fall 2007 Laura Campo (senior mech) , Brown Undergraduate Research Intern topic – Continuum Modeling of Fouling in Nanofiltration (APS DFD presentation) topic – Engineering Outreach through Mentoring Stephanie Rice (junior mech) topic – Engineering Outreach through Mentoring Candace Marbury (senior mech), co-Advised with Dr. Qilin Li Mech 593 – Experimental Study of Reverse Osmosis Membrane Fouling Summer 2007 Laura Campo (rising senior mech) and Claire Krebs (rising junior mech), AGEP summer interns topic – Numerical Modeling of Fouling in Reverse Osmosis Filtration Spring 2007 Laura Campo (junior mech) and Jack Hale (visiting junior mech) Mech 593 – Topics in Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics Jack Hale (visiting junior mech) Brown Undergraduate Research Intern topic – Molecular Modeling of Reverses Osmosis Membrane Fouling


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(North American Membrane Society Presentation, travel fellowship) Fall 2006 Ali Hamshari (senior mech), Brown Undergraduate Research Intern topic – Comparison of Stream function and Vorticity Numerical Techniques Summer 2006 Ali Hamshari (rising senior mech), Brown Undergraduate Research Intern topic – Computational Magnetohydrodynamics Fall 2005 Ashley Edison and Michael Ramon (senior mechs) Mech 593 – Multiphase Flow

Undergraduate Fellowship Advising (including continued advising of former Rice undergraduates)

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Edward Biegert DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship, 2012 2011

Andres Goza NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Grantee, 2011 CD Broad Fellowship for year-long study at Cambridge, 2011

Rachel Jackson

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Grantee, 2011 Edward Biegert NSF GRFP Honorable Mention, 2011 2010

Matt Pharr NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Grantee, 2010 NDSEG Grantee, 2010 NSF GRFP Honorable Mention, 2009 (as 1st year graduate student) 2009 and prior

Laura Campo NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Grantee, 2008 CD Broad Fellowship for year-long study at Cambridge, 2008 Andover Summer Instructor, 2009 Exeter Summer Instructor, 2008


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Scott Steger NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Grantee, 2009 (as 1st year graduate student) NSF GRFP Honorable Mention, 2008

Varun Rajan SURF NIST Fellowship, 2009

NSF GRFP Honorable Mention, 2009

Christina Stamatakis Wagoner Foreign Study Scholarship Grantee (most prestigious study-abroad award offered by Rice University) 2008

Current Graduate Advisees

Kenneth Davis degree sought: Ph.D. start date: June 2009 expected 2013

Thesis Committees

Advised Ph.D. Yue Huang Ph.D. M.E. (advisor) March 27, 2012 (defense) Paul M. Boyle Ph.D. M.E. (advisor) March 25, 2011 (defense)

Advised M.S. Zhao (Chad) Kong M.S. M.E. (advisor) August 24, 2011 (defense) Stephanie E. Tritcler M.S. M.E. (advisor) July 28, 2011 (defense) Kenneth E. Davis M.S. M.E. (advisor) April 4, 2011 (defense) Yue Huang M.S. M.E. (advisor) September 9, 2009 (defense) Paul M. Boyle M.S. M.E. (advisor) October 27, 2008 (defense) Advised M.M.E. Juan Castilleja, Jr. M.M.E. (advisor) May 14, 2011 (commencement) Han Li M.M.E. (advisor) May 9, 2009 (commencement) Committees Served On Cheng Peng Ph.D. M.E. (expected 2012)

qualifying exam, April 28, 2011 Sukesh Shenoy Ph.D. M.E. (expected 2013)

qualifying exam, May 4, 2011 Pedro Lopez Ph.D. M.E. (expected 2013)

qualifying exam, April 13, 2011 Justin Kugler M.S. M.E. (2007) Ankur Srivastava M.S. M.E. (2007), qualifying exam, Dec. 1, 2008 Ph.D. M.E. (2010) Alison Harris M.S. Env.E. (2008) Jonathan Lee M.S. M.E. (2009) Matthew Wilkinson M.S. M.E. (2010)


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Ph.D. M.E. (2012) Roque Sanchez M.S. Env.Sci (2010) Sen Wang Ph.D. Env.E. (2012)

Graduate Advisees’ Awards and Fellowships

Kenneth Davis: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship - awarded 2009 Paul M. Boyle: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship - awarded 2007 National Defense Science & Engineering Grad. Fellowship - awarded 2007 Nettie S. Autrey Fellowship - awarded 2008 [$13,500] Yue Huang: Nettie S. Autrey Fellowship - awarded 2011 [$13,500] Stephanie Tritchler: AF Research Laboratory Summer Researcher - awarded 2010

Refereed Journal Publications

in review/revision as of January 2013 Davis, K. E.*, Huang, Y.* & Houchens, B. C. Transitions predicted by three-dimensional time integration compared with linear stability theory for a thermocapillary driven full-zone liquid bridge. submitted to Phys. Fluids (in revision) Biegert, E. K.†, Houchens, B. C. & Kim, A. S. Hydrodynamic drag forces exerted on spherical objects: A review of cell models. submitted to J. Colloid Interface Sci. (in revision)

accepted 1. Kong, Z. C. *, Eddy, D.†, Martin, N. M. † & Houchens, B. C. Experimental results and simulation

of flow instabilities in a rotating lid-driven cylinder. J. Applied Mechanics

2. Boyle, P. M.*, Houchens, B. C. & Kim, A. S. Simulation of colloidal fouling by coupling a dynamically updating velocity profile and electric field interactions with force bias Monte Carlo methods for membrane filtration. J. Colloid Interface Sci.

3. Davis, K. E.*, Huang, Y.* & Houchens, B. C. Three-dimensional simulations of instabilities in a

Marangoni-driven, low Prandtl number liquid bridge with magnetic stabilization to verify linear stability theory. European Physical Journal Special Topics (EPJ ST)

2011 4. Goza, A. J.†, Tritchler, S. E.*, Bliss, D. F. & Houchens, B. C. Thermodynamic modeling of bulk

ternary alloy crystal growth: Comparison of experiments and theory for GaInSb alloys. J. Crystal Growth. 337 (1), 60-64, 2011.

5. Kahouadji, L., Houchens, B. C. & Martin-Witkowski, L. Thermocapillary instabilities in a

laterally heated liquid bridge with end wall rotation. Physics of Fluids, vol 23(10), 2011.


* indicates graduate students from Houchens’ research group † indicates undergraduates from Houchens’ research group (or work completed while students were undergraduates)

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6. Huang, Y.* & Houchens, B. C. 2011 Numerical linear stability analysis of a thermocapillary driven liquid bridge with magnetic stabilization. Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, vol. 6:(7), 2011.

7. Huang, Y.* & Houchens, B. C. Magnetic stabilization, transition and energy analysis in the

Marangoni driven Full-Zone at low Prandtl numbers. European Physical Journal Special Topics (EPJ ST) vol. 192, 47-62, 2011.

2010 8. Houchens, B. C., Becla, P., Tritchler, S. E.*, Goza, A. J.† & Bliss, D. F. Crystal growth of bulk

ternary semiconductors: Comparison of GaInSb growth by horizontal Bridgman and horizontal traveling heater method. J. Crystal Growth. 312 (8), 1090-1094, 2010.

9. Sanchez, R. T.†, Elliott , A. A.†, Sibley, R., Grenader, N. S., Houchens, B. C. & Samuels, D. M.

ZeRow: Design, Energy Performance and Cost Analysis of a Solar Powered Row House. Int. J. Service Learning Engineering 5, No. 2, 67-86, 2010.

10. Houchens, B. C. Service and design as mechanisms to impassion the study of engineering, from

K-12 to higher education. Int. J. Service Learning Engineering 5, No. 1, 25-46, 2010.

2007 11. Beach, K. E.†, Boyle, P. M.†, Corcoran, C. C.†, Hamshari, A. N.†, Tuttle, J. J.†, McStravick, D. M.

& Houchens, B. C. Integrating Research, Undergraduate Education and Engineering Outreach. Int. J. Service Learning Engineering 2, No. 2, 89-101, 2007.

2005 and prior 12. Houchens, B. C. & Walker, J. S. Modeling the floating zone: Instabilities in the half zone and

full zone. J. Thermophysics and Heat Transfer 19, No. 2, 186-198, 2005.

13. Walker, J. S., Martin-Witkowski, L. & Houchens, B. C., Effects of a rotating magnetic field on the thermocapillary instability in the floating-zone process. J. Cryst. Growth 252, 413-423, 2003.

14. Houchens, B. C., Martin-Witkowski, L. & Walker, J. S., Rayleigh-Bénard instability in a

vertical cylinder with a vertical magnetic field. J. Fluid Mech. 469, 189-207, 2002.

Journal Articles in Preparation

Boyle, P. M.*, Kim, A. S. & Houchens, B. C. Colloidal fouling of rough membranes in cross-flow. in preparation for J. Membrane Sci. Heisel, M. J.†, Patel, R.†, Kienast, K. J.† & Houchens, B. C., Energy Analysis of a Solar Powered, Affordable Row House during Occupation. for submission to ASME J. Solar Energy Engineering. Houchens, B. C., Bautista-Chavez , A. M.†, Castilleja, J. A., Jr.*, Jackson, R. W.† & Goza, A. J.† Learning outcomes and perceptions of underrepresented high school mentees targeted through engineering outreach. for submission to The Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education



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Li, H.*, Huang, Y.* & Houchens, B. C. Numerical issues in cylindrical geometries, manifested in the laterally heated liquid bridge with an applied axial magnetic field. for submission to Fluid Mechanics and Materials Processing.

Peer Reviewed Publications in Conference Proceedings

2012 1. Huang, Y.*, Davis, K. E.* & Houchens, B. C. 2012 Flow Control using Alternating Magnetic

Fields during Crystal Growth from a Melt, ASME Paper IMECE2012-88373. Proceedings of the 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Houston, TX.

2. Valley, K. J.†, Nguyen, L. Q.†, Rodela, A.† & Houchens, B. C. 2012 Learning Outcomes from

Design of Wind Turbines carried out by Underserved High School Mentees Participating in DREAM. ASME Paper IMECE2012-88775, Proceedings of the 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Houston, TX.

3. Garza, A. N.†, Song, J. L.†, Gogola, G. R., Saterbak, A., Wettergreen, M. A. & Houchens, B. C.

2012 Mechanical Wheelchair Propulsion System for Patients with Arthrogryposis. ASME Paper IMECE2012-88987, Proceedings of the 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Houston, TX.

4. Houchens, B. C., Castilleja, J. A., Jr.*, Bautista-Chavez, A. M.† 2012 Impact on Former

DREAM Mentors and Mentees. Proceedings of the 2nd P-12 Engineering and Design Education Research Summit, Washington, DC.

5. Bautista-Chavez, A. M.†, Garza, A. N.†, Herkes, S. M.†, Kienast, K. J.†, McClendon, N. W.†,

Sharpe, A. L.† & Houchens, B. C. 2012 Motivations of Volunteer DREAM Mentors. ASEE Paper AC 2012-3355, Proceedings of the 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, TX.

6. Kong, Z. C.*, Eddy, D.†, Martin, N. K.† & Houchens, B. C. 2012 Experimental Results and

Simulation of Flow Instabilities in a Rotating Lid-Driven Cylinder. Proceedings of the 12th Pan-American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM XII), Port of Spain, Trinidad.

2011 7. Kong, Z. C.†, Bautista-Chavez, A. M.†, Kienast, K. J.†, Oke, O. S.†, Goza, A. J.†, Jackson, R. W.†,

Castilleja, J. A., Jr.* & Houchens, B. C. 2011 Implementation of mini-lectures in DREAM: Rigor in an informal, design-based high school mentoring project. ASEE Paper AC 2011- 2312, Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, Canada.

8. McKay, M. ed., 2011 Best practices in K-12 and university partnerships panel winners, ASEE K-

12 and Pre-College Engineering Division. ASEE Paper 2011-167, Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, Canada.

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9. Houchens, B. C., Bautista-Chavez, A. M.†, Castilleja, J. A., Jr.*, Jackson, R. W.† & Goza, A. J.† 2010 Learning outcomes and perceptions of underrepresented high school mentees targeted through engineering outreach. P-12 Engineering and Design Education Research Summit, Seaside, OR.

10. Goza, A. J.†, Garland, D. C.† & Houchens, B. C. 2010 Physics and mathematics learning

outcomes of underserved and underrepresented DREAM mentees at three urban high schools. ASEE Paper AC 2010-296, Proceedings of the 2010 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Louisville, KY.

11. Castilleja, J. A., Jr.*, Jackson, R. W.†, Salies, N. G.† & Houchens, B. C. 2010 Motivating

minority high school students for futures in engineering through D.R.E.A.M. (Designing with Rice Engineers – Achievement through Mentorship). ASEE Paper AC 2010-1134, Proceedings of the 2010 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Louisville, KY.

12. McStravick, D. M., Houchens, B. C., Garland, D. C.† & Davis, K. E.* 2010 Investigation of an

Eppler 423 style wind turbine blade. ASME Paper ES2010-90113, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, Phoenix, AZ.

13. Huang, Y.*, Davis, K. E.*, Li, H.* & Houchens, B. C. 2010 Magnetic control of instabilities in a

thermocapillary driven liquid bridge. Proceedings of the 11th Pan-American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM XI), Foz do Iguaçu, PR, Brazil.

2009 14. Campo, L. M.†, Rice, S. A.†, Rimer, D. B.† & Houchens, B. C. 2009 Mentoring to impassion

the study of engineering in underrepresented high school students via a design mechanism. ASEE Paper AC 2009-659, Proceedings of the 2009 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Austin, TX.

2008 15. Huang, Y.* & Houchens, B. C. 2008 Comparison of the 4th order stream function and 2nd

order vorticity representations for modeling float-zone crystal growth with a constant magnetic field. ASME Paper IMECE2008-66716, Proceedings of the 2008 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. Boston, MA.

16. Boyle, P. M.* & Houchens, B. C. 2008 Hands-on water purification experiments using the

Adaptive WaTER Laboratory for undergraduate education and K-12 outreach. ASME Paper FEDSM 2008-55108, Proceedings of the 2008 ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting. Jacksonville, FL.

17. Li, H.* & Houchens, B. C. 2008 Numerical issues associated with the full-zone model of the

optically heated floating-zone used in semiconductor processing. ASME Paper FEDSM 2008-55169, Proceedings of the 2008 ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting. Jacksonville, FL.



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18. Boyle, P. M.* & Houchens, B. C. 2008 Adaptive WaTER Laboratory for K-12 outreach on sustainable water use. ASEE Paper AC 2008-449, Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Pittsburg, PA. (selected for ASEE Environmental Division Early Career Paper Award)

2007 19. Hale, J. S.†, Harris, A., Li, Q. & Houchens, B. C. 2007 The fluid mechanics of membrane

filtration. ASME paper IMECE 2007-43656, Proceedings of the 2007 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. Seattle, WA.

2006 20. Houchens, B. C. 2006 Stability of thermoelectromagnetic convection. ASME paper IMECE

2006-14082, Proceedings of the 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. Chicago, IL.

2005 and prior 21. Houchens, B. C. & Walker, J. S. 2005 Deformation of a thermocapillary driven liquid bridge.

ASME paper IMECE2005-80068, Proceedings of the 2005 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. Orlando, FL.

22. Houchens, B. C. & Walker, J. S. 2004 Multi-scale linear stability analysis. ICCES paper 170,

Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering and Sciences. Madeira, Portugal, 1040-1045.

23. Houchens, B. C. & Walker, J. S. 2004 Instabilities in a laterally heated full-zone with a large

aspect ratio. AIAA paper 2004-961, Proceedings of the 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit. Reno, NV.

24. Houchens, B. C. & Walker, J. S. 2003 Comparison of the half-zone and laterally heated full-

zone instability mechanisms. AIAA paper 2003-1313, Proceedings of the 41st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit. Reno, NV.

25. Houchens, B. C. & Walker, J. S. 2001 Magnetic damping of the thermocapillary instability

during floating-zone crystal growth in space. AIAA paper 2001-5053, Proceedings of the Conference and Exhibit on International Space Station Utilization. Cape Canaveral, FL.

Invited Talks

1. “Instabilities in a Thermocapillary Driven Liquid Bridge: Comparison of Linear Stability Theory and 3D Simulations” Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Fluids, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, May 2012.

2. “Research, Publishing and Presenting - A Model for Involving Undergraduates in Externally

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3. “DREAM-Achievement through Mentorship: Building Leaders among Rice Students through Service to Underrepresented K-12 Mentees” 2011 Rice Homecoming and Reunion, November 2011.

4. “ DREAM-Achievement through Mentorship” Department of Education, Office of English

Language Acquisition, Public & Private Partnership Best Practices in Establishing an Outreach Program for Majority English Learners, July 2011. (presented by Tony Castilleja†)

5. “Lessons Learned from a Pre- Engineering Outreach Program in Underserved Urban High

Schools” ASEE, Vancouver, Canada, June 2011. (presented by Tim Johnson, Science Department Chair at Stephen F. Austin High School)

6. “Adaptive WaTER Laboratory for Service Learning, Outreach and Education on Sustainable

Water Purification and Consumption” University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, November 2009.

7. RSVP (Rice Student Volunteer Program) Education Panel, Rice University, Houston, TX,

February 5, 2009

8. “How to Communicate Effectively with Your Advisor” Office of International Students and Scholars (OISS), Rice University, Houston, TX, October 16, 2008

9. “Education for Sustainable Water Use” Bioengineering Department BIOE/CIVI 409, Rice

University, Houston, TX, April 14, 2008.

10. “Numerical, Asymptotic and Hybrid Methods for Modeling Fluid Flows” Computational and Applied Mathematics Department, Rice University, Houston, TX, September 24, 2007.

11. “Liquid Metal Magnetohydrodynamics” ASM International – The Materials Information Society,

Rice University, Houston, TX, April 2, 2007.

12. “Deformation of a thermocapillary driven liquid bridge” Symposium on Gas-Liquid and Phase-Change Flows at Macro- and Micro-scales, 2005 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, November 8, 2005.

13. “Combining numerical and analytical techniques for flow simulation” Symposium on Challenges

and Advances in Flow Simulation and Modeling, 2005 Mechanical Engineering Congress (MECJ) of the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineering, Chofu, Japan, September 21, 2005.

14. “Multi-scale linear stability analysis” Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech

University, Lubbock, TX, May 16, 2005.

15. “Applications of multi-scale thermal-fluids techniques” Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, May 2, 2005.



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16. “Thermodynamic limits” undergraduate lecture in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, May 2, 2005.

17. “Multi-scale linear stability analysis” Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Department, Rice University, Houston, TX, April 12, 2005.

18. “Multi-scale linear stability analysis” Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, February 14, 2005.

19. “Multi-scale linear stability analysis of floating-zone crystal growth” Mechanical and Chemical

Engineering Department, Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur (LIMSI), Université de Paris-Sud (Paris VI University), 91403 Orsay, France, July 12, 2004.

Conference Presentations (** indicates cross-references with invited talks, presenter other than Houchens underlined)

2012 1. “Analysis of float-zone crystal growth instabilities through linear stability analysis and 3D

spectral element simulations” APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 65th Annual Meeting, November 2012, San Diego, CA. (co-authored by Kenneth E. Davis* and Yue Huang*)

2. “Large-scale spectral element simulations of general fluid flow and heat transfer problems”

ASME IMECE Winter Annual Meeting, November 2012, Houston, TX. (presented by Kenneth E. Davis*, co-authored by Yue Huang*)

3. “Learning outcomes from design of wind turbines carried out by underserved high school

mentees participating in DREAM” ASME IMECE Winter Annual Meeting, November 2012 Houston, TX. (co-authored by Alex Rodela†, presented by Leslie Q. Nguyen† and Kyle J. Valley†)

4. “Mechanical wheelchair propulsion system for patients with arthrogryposis” ASME IMECE

Winter Annual Meeting, November 2012 Houston, TX. (co-authored by Gloria Gogola, Ann Saterbak and Matthew Wettergreen, presented by Allison N. Garza† and Joseph L. Song†)

5. “Flow control using alternating magnetic fields during crystal growth from a melt” ASME

IMECE Winter Annual Meeting, November 2012, Houston, TX. (co-authored by Kenneth E. Davis*, presented by Yue Huang*)

6. “Laminar flow and perturbation measurements using ultrasonic Doppler velocimetry” ASME

IMECE Winter Annual Meeting, November 2012, Houston, TX. (co-authored by Duncan Eddy†, presented by Nathan K. Martin†))

7. “Energy analysis of the solar powered ZeRow House during occupation ” ASME IMECE

Winter Annual Meeting, November 2012, Houston, TX. (co-authored by Kurt J. Kienast†, presented by Michael J. Heisel†)



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8. “Motivations of volunteer DREAM mentors” ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2012, San Antonio, TX. (co-authored by Bautista-Chavez, A. M.†, Garza, A. N.†, Herkes, S. M.†, Kienast, K. J.†, McClendon, N. W.†, Sharpe, A. L.†)

9. “Impact on former DREAM mentors and mentees” 2nd P-12 Engineering and Design Education

Research Summit, April 2012, Washington, DC (co-authored by Castilleja, J. A., Jr.*, Bautista-Chavez, A. M.†)

10. “Experimental results and simulation of flow instabilities in a rotating lid-driven cylinder” 12th

Pan-American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM XII), January 2012, Port of Spain, Trinidad. (co-authored by Kong, Z. C.*, Eddy, D.†, Martin, N. K.†)

2011 11. “Research, publishing and presenting -A model for involving undergraduates in externally

evaluated research” 2011 National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Education workshop, November 2011, Irvine, CA.**

12. “Ultrasonic Doppler velocimetry measurement and spectral element simulation of flow in

cylindrical domains typical of bulk crystal growth processes” ASME IMECE Winter Annual Meeting, November 2011, Denver, CO (co-authored by Kenneth E. Davis*, Z. Chad Kong*, Yue Huang*, Andres J. Goza†, presented by Kenneth Davis*)

13. “Implementation of mini-lectures in DREAM: Rigor in an informal, design-based high school

mentoring project.” ASEE 2011 Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2011, Vancouver, Canada. (presented by Tony Castilleja*)

14. “Best practices in K-12 and university partnerships panel winners” 2011 Annual Conference &

Exposition, June 2011, Vancouver, Canada. (presented by Tim Johnson, Science Chair at Stephen F. Austin High School) **

2010 15. “Comparison of linear stability and 3-D time integration for predicting instabilities in a

thermocapillary driven liquid bridge with magnetic stabilization” APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 63rd Annual Meeting, November 2010, Long Beach, CA. (presented by Kenneth E. Davis*, co-authored by Yue Huang*)

16. “Tracking rigid spherical particles in incompressible flows via dissipative hydrodynamics” APS

Division of Fluid Dynamics 63rd Annual Meeting, November 2010, Long Beach, CA. (co-authored by Kenneth E. Davis*, Albert S. Kim and Yong Shi)

17. “Particle trajectory solution via one-way coupling to generalized laminar flows” 2010

International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, ASME IMECE Winter Annual Meeting, November 2010, Vancouver, Canada. (co-authored by Kenneth E. Davis* and Albert S. Kim)



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18. “Modeling membrane filtration for water recovery” 2010 NASA Thermal & Fluids Analysis Workshop, August 2010, Houston, TX. (presented by Paul Boyle*, co-authored by Albert S. Kim)

19. “Potential of the spectral element method in flow simulations of aerospace systems” 2010 NASA

Thermal & Fluids Analysis Workshop, August 2010, Houston, TX. (presented by Kenneth Davis*)

20. “Learning outcomes and perceptions of underrepresented high school mentees targeted through

engineering outreach” P12 Engineering and Design Education Research Summit, August 2010, Seaside, OR.

21. “Marangoni driven full-zone: Magnetic stabilization, transition and energy analysis at low Prandtl

number” 5th International Conference on Interfacial Fluid Dynamics and Processes in Physio-Chemical Systems, International Marangoni Association (IMA-V), June 2010, Florence, Italy. (presented by Yue Huang*)

22. “Physics and mathematics learning outcomes of underserved and underrepresented DREAM

mentees at three urban high schools” ASEE 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2010, Louisville, KY. (presented by Natalia G. Salies†)

23. “Motivating minority high school students for futures in engineering through D.R.E.A.M.

(Designing with Rice Engineers – Achievement through Mentorship)” ASEE 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2010, Louisville, KY. (presented by Juan Castilleja*)

2009 24. “Learning outcomes of high school DREAM mentees” 2009 Sigma Xi Annual Meeting &

International Research Conference, Nov. 2009, The Woodlands, TX. (poster presented by Goza, A. J.†, Jackson, R. W.† and Sorenson, M. P.†, co-authored by Garland, D. C.†, Kong, Z. C.†, Salies, N. G.†, Castilleja, J. A., Jr.* & Houchens, B. C.)

25. “DREAM: Attracting underrepresented high school students to engineering through mentoring

and design” 2009 Sigma Xi Annual Meeting & International Research Conference, Nov. 2009, The Woodlands, TX. (poster presented by Garland, D. C.†, Kong, Z. C.† and Salies, N. G.†, co-authored by Goza, A. J.†, Jackson, R. W.†, Sorenson, M. P.†, Castilleja, J. A.* & Houchens, B. C.)

26. “Energy performance of the Rice University Solar Decathlon Ze-Row house” 2009 Sigma Xi

Annual Meeting & International Research Conference, Nov. 2009, The Woodlands, TX. (poster presented by Sanchez, R. T.† and Martin, T. B.†, co-authored by Dewane, D. P., Elliot, A. E.†, Sibley, R. M., Grenader, N. S., Houchens, B. C., & Samuels, D. M.)

27. “Crystal growth of bulk ternary semiconductors” 17th American Conference on Crystal Growth

and Epitaxy, August 2009, Lake Geneva, WI. (presented by David Bliss, co-authored by Becla, P., Goza, A. J.†, Tritchler, S. E.* & Houchens, B. C.)



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28. “Charged particle deposition onto a semi-permeable wall during crossflow filtration” ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Conference, August 2009, Vail, CO. (presented by Paul Boyle*)

29. “Magnetic control of instabilities in a thermocapillary driven liquid bridge” Fifth M.I.T.

Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics: Advances in CFD, June 2009, Cambridge, MA.

30. “Mentoring to impassion the study of engineering in underrepresented high school students via a

design mechanism” ASEE 2009 Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2009, Austin, TX.

31. “Bulk ternary alloy semiconductor crystal growth with electromagnetic stirring” AFOSR Joint Electronics Program Review, May 2009, Arlington, VA. (poster)

32. “Enrichment of collaborative engineering design projects using HP Tablets for undergraduate

education, outreach and service” 2009 HP Technology for Teaching Worldwide Higher Education Conference, facilitated by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), February 2009, La Jolla, CA. (poster)

2008 33. “Coupling discrete and continuum mechanics in low concentration, particle-laden flows” APS

Division of Fluid Dynamics 61st Annual Meeting, November 2008, San Antonio, TX.

34. “High resolution numerical models of optically heated float-zone crystal growth with applied magnetic fields” APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 61st Annual Meeting, November 2008, San Antonio, TX. (presented by Yue Huang*)

35. “Comparison of three base flow representations for modeling the optically heated floating-zone

with the full-zone” APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 61st Annual Meeting, November 2008, San Antonio, TX. (presented by Han Li*)

36. “Comparison of the 4th order stream function and 2nd order vorticity representations for modeling

float-zone crystal growth with a constant magnetic field” ASME IMECE Winter Annual Meeting, November 2008, Boston, MA. (presented by Yue Huang*)

37. “A comparison of various numerical formulations for Marangoni driven flow in cylindrical liquid

bridges” 4th International Conference on Interfacial Fluid Dynamics and Processes in Physio-Chemical Systems, International Marangoni Association (IMA-IV), October 2008, Tokyo, Japan

38. “Numerical issues associated with the full-zone model of the optically heated floating-zone used

in semiconductor processing” ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Conference, August 2008, Jacksonville, FL. (presented by Han Li*)



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39. “Hands-on water purification experiments using the Adaptive WaTER Laboratory for undergraduate education and K-12 outreach” ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Conference, August 2008, Jacksonville, FL.

40. “Adaptive WaTER Laboratory for K-12 outreach on sustainable water use” ASEE 2008 Annual

Conference & Exposition, June 2008, Pittsburg, PA. (presented by Paul M. Boyle* and BCH)

41. “Sustainable Water Purification in Developing Countries with Educational Modules using the Adaptive WaTER Lab” EPA P3 People, Prosperity and the Planet, April 2008, Washington, DC. (presented by Laura Campo†, Felix Campos†, Tiye Felix†, Josh Langsfeld†, Christina Stamatakis†, Scott Steger† and BCH, received honorable mention)

2007 42. “Modeling viscosity variations in membrane fouling” APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 60th

Annual Meeting, November 2007, Salt Lake City, UT. (presented by Laura M. Campo†)

43. “The fluid mechanics of membrane filtration” 2007 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, ASME Winter Annual Meeting, November 2007, Seattle, WA.

44. “Nanofiltration of complex fluids containing colloid materials and dissolved macromolecules: the

combined fouling effect” American Chemical Society, 81st Colloid & Surface Science Symposium, June 2007, Newark, DE. (presented by Prof. Qilin Li)

45. “Mathematical modeling of combined fouling in crossflow filtration processes” North American

Membrane Society Annual Meeting, May 2007, Orlando, FL. (presented by Jack S. Hale†)

2006 46. “The role of thermoelectromagnetic convection in semiconductor crystal growth” APS Division

of Fluid Dynamics 59th Annual Meeting, November 2006, Tampa, FL.

47. “Leading order surface deformations of Marangoni driven liquid bridges” 3rd International Conference on Interfacial Fluid Dynamics and Processes in Physio-Chemical Systems, International Marangoni Association (IMA-3), November 2006, Gainsville, FL.

48. “Stability of thermoelectromagnetic convection” Forum on Fundamental Issues and Perspectives

in Fluid Mechanics, 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, ASME Winter Annual Meeting, November 2006, Chicago, IL.

2005 and prior 49. “Free-surface deformation of a liquid bridge” APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 58th Annual

Meeting, November 2005, Chicago, IL.

50. “Deformation of a thermocapillary driven liquid bridge” Symposium on Gas-Liquid and Phase-Change Flows at Macro- and Micro-scales, 2005 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, ASME Winter Annual Meeting, November 2005, Orlando, FL. **



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51. “Combining numerical and analytical techniques for flow simulation” Symposium on Challenges and Advances in Flow Simulation and Modeling, 2005 Mechanical Engineering Congress (MECJ) of the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineering, September 2005, Chofu, Japan. **

52. “Multi-scale linear stability analysis: the asymptotic solution” APS Division of Fluid Dynamics

57th Annual Meeting, November 2004, Seattle, WA.

53. “Multi-scale linear stability analysis” International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering and Sciences (ICCES), July 2004, Madeira, Portugal.

54. “Multi-scale linear stability analysis of Marangoni driven flows” 2nd International Conference on

Interfacial Fluid Dynamics and Processes in Physio-Chemical Systems, International Marangoni Association (IMA-2), July 2004, Brussels, Belgium.

55. “Instabilities in a laterally heated full-zone with a large aspect ratio” 42nd AIAA Aerospace

Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 2004, Reno, NV.

56. “Magnetic damping of instabilities in thermocapillary driven flows of low Prandtl number fluids” APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 56th Annual Meeting, November 2003, East Rutherford, NJ.

57. “Comparison of the half-zone and laterally heated full-zone instability mechanisms” 41st AIAA

Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 2003, Reno, NV.

58. “Magnetic damping of flow instabilities during floating-zone crystal growth in space” NASA Materials Science Conference, June 2002, Huntsville, AL. (poster)

59. “Magnetic damping of the thermocapillary instability during floating-zone crystal growth in

space” Conference and Exhibit on International Space Station Utilization, Oct. 2001, Cape Canaveral, FL.

Other Presentations (advised)

“Analysis of the solar hot water system in the ZeRow House” 2010 AGEP Summer Research Program, Houston, TX. (presented by Kurt Kienast†, co-authored by Ronak Patel† and Michael Heisel†) “ZeRow House” 2009 Solar Decathlon, October 2009, Washington, D.C. (presented by approximately 20 Rice engineering† and architecture students)

“Characterization of Ga1-xInxSb” 2009 Hanscom Air Force Base, Sensors Directorate, AF Summer Researcher Program, Bedford, MA. (presented by Stephanie E. Tritchler* and Andres J. Goza†)

“Spectral collocation solution of cross-flow membrane filtration” 2007 AGEP Summer Research Program, Houston, TX. (presented by Laura Campo† and Claire Krebs†)

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Grant Proposals (funded) total of external research funds awarded to BCH: $436,141 other institutional/external funding awarded to BCH:$244,884

“DREAM: Achievement through Mentorship” Boeing Global Corporate Citizenship PI submitted: September 7, 2011 awarded: September 30, 2011 [$12,000] “DREAM Day 2011” ASME Diversity Action Grant (co-authored with Stephanie Herkes†) PI submitted/awarded: 2010 [$3000] “Wind Turbine Blade Optimization” Vestas Inc. capstone design grant co-PI submitted/awarded: August 2010 [$5000] “Portable, Off-Grid Habitat” NASA PI submitted/awarded: August 2010 [$6000] “DREAM: Impassioning the Study of Engineering and Science in Underrepresented High School Students” Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Inc. (2nd competitive renewal) PI submitted/awarded: 2010 [$15,000] “DREAM Day 2010” ASME Diversity Action Grant (co-authored with Chad Kong†) PI submitted/awarded: 2009 [$2000] “DREAM: STEM Diversity through Mentorship” Sigma Xi, Rice-TMC Chapter. PI submitted: May 8, 2009 awarded: May 11, 2009 [$1500]

“DREAM: Impassioning the Study of Engineering and Science in Underrepresented High School Students” Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Inc. (competitive renewal) PI submitted/awarded: 2009 [$15,000] 2009 Air Force Summer Researcher Program (summer funding for Stephanie Tritchler* and Andres Goza†) [$40,000] “Thermodynamics of Ternary Alloy Crystal Growth” 2009 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program. AFRL, Hanscom Air Force Base, MA. PI submitted: December 1, 2008 awarded: March 9, 2009 [$19,600] “Growth of Alloy Semiconductors with Tailored Magnetic Field Control” AFOSR, STTR, Phase II. partnership with CapeSym, Inc. co-PI (co-PI with Dr. Shari Motakef) submitted: March 26, 2008 awarded: November 1, 2008 [$749,786 total before $122,249 option 1 and $110,459 option 2]



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[$249,641 to BCH] “DREAM: Impassioning the Study of Engineering and Science in Underrepresented High School Students” Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Inc. PI submitted: July 8, 2008 awarded: September 1, 2008 [$20,000] “Enrichment of Collaborative Engineering Design Projects Using HP Tablets for Undergraduate Education, Outreach and Service” HP Technology for Teaching Grant Initiative. PI (co-PI’s: Dr. Mark Embree, Dr. David McStravick, Dr. Marcia O’Malley, Richard Johnson) submitted: February 15, 2008 awarded: April 30, 2008 [$77,000 + MS software – valued at $6720] “Zero Energy Rowhouse - 2009 Rice Solar Decathlon” Rice Faculty Initiative Fund. co-PI (co-PI with David Dewane, Roque Sanchez†, Prof. Danny Samuels, Prof, Nonya Grenader) submitted April 1, 2008 awarded: June 1, 2008 [$30,000] “Magnetic Control Through Damping and Stirring in Bulk Crystal Growth” 2008 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program. AFRL, Hanscom Air Force Base, MA. PI submitted: December 3, 2007 awarded: February 26, 2008 [$13,400] Cain Project support for “Water” capstone design team to travel to Washington D.C. to present at the 2008 EPA P3 Expo. PI requested: February 7, 2008 awarded: February 25, 2008 [$2700] “Ze-Row, Zero Energy Rowhouse” 2009 U.S. DOE Solar Decathlon. co-PI (co-PI with Dr. Pedro Alvarez, David Dewane, Roque Sanchez†, Prof. Danny Samuels, Prof, Nonya Grenader) submitted: December 7, 2007 awarded: January 24, 2008 [$100,000] “Growth of Alloy Semiconductors with Traveling Magnetic Fields” AFOSR, STTR, Phase I. partnership with CapeSym, Inc. co-PI (co-PI with Dr. Shari Motakef, Dr. John Wallace) submitted: December 20, 2007 awarded: January 2008 [$30,000] “Development of Intermediate Prototypes and a Design for Manufacturability Study of the Adaptive WaTER Laboratory” Beyond Traditional Borders. PI submitted: December 18, 2007 awarded: January 1, 2008 [$5634]

“Solar Powered Water Filtration in Mexico and Africa” BP. PI



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(co-PI’s: Laura Campo†, Felix Campos†, Tiye Felix†, Josh Langsfeld†, Christina Stamatakis†, Scott Steger†) submitted: October 14, 2007 awarded: November 20, 2007 [two solar arrays for senior design] “Water Treatment and Education in Villahermosa, Mexico” U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, P3: People, Prosperity and the Planet. PI (co-PI’s: Kelsey Beach†, Paul Boyle†, Clint Corcoran†, Ali Hamshari†, Jim Tuttle†) submitted: December 21, 2006 awarded: January 3, 2008 [$10,000] “Mentoring at Stephen F. Austin High School” Sigma Xi, Rice-TMC Chapter. PI submitted: October 3, 2007 awarded: October 4, 2007 [$1000]

“Micro- and Nano- Patterned Surfaces for Control of Biofouling” Energy & Environmental Systems Institute (EESI), Rice University. co-PI (co-PI with Dr. Qilin Li, Dr. Jun Lou) submitted: May 28, 2007 awarded: July 5, 2007 [$5000] “D.R.E.A.M. Program” BP via George R. Brown School of Engineering. PI submitted: July 16, 2007 awarded: September 20, 2007 [$3250]

“Developing an ASME Forum and Symposium on Fundamental Fluid Mechanics” Paul R. Paslay Excellence Fund, MEMS PI submitted: December 15, 2005 awarded: March 28, 2006 [$1500] “Instrumentation of Obstetrics Forceps” Paul R. Paslay Excellence Fund, MEMS co-PI (co-PI with Dr. David McStravick) submitted: December 15, 2005 awarded: March 28, 2006 [$4000]

Funded Grant Proposals for Student Initiatives and Education

Travel grant for Sigma-Xi program development training, summer 2008. Zhao “Chad” Kong† [$600] Varun Rajan’s† summer SURF NIST [$7500]

Grant Proposals (under review)

NSF ITEST 2012 DREAM: Mentoring in Traditional and Non-Traditional Settings for Impassioning the Study of Engineering in Underrepresented Students and Their Families PI [$977,478]



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Shell U.S. DREAM: Achievement through Mentorship PI [$30,000]

Grant Proposals (submitted)

DOD: ONR DREAM: Mentoring in Traditional and Non-Traditional Settings for Impassioning the Study of Engineering in Underrepresented, Underserved 7th - 12th Grade Students and Their Families, submitted December 2010 NSF CAREER: Experiments and Simulations for Composition and Microstructure Control of Ternary Alloy Crystal Growth with Magnetic Melt Stirring, submitted 2011

NSF ITEST Strategies: Assessment of the DREAM Mentoring Program for Impassioning the Study of Engineering in Underrepresented, 7th - 12th Grade Mentees and Their Families submitted 2011 “DREAM: Mentoring in Traditional and Non-Traditional Settings for Impassioning the Study of Engineering in Underrepresented Students” NSF ITEST, submitted February 15, 2010 “Bio-inspired Hierarchical Surfaces with Tailored Mechanical Properties for Environmentally Benign Control of Biofouling in Naval Applications” ONR Whitepaper, submitted to Sea Warfare and Weapons area “Environmental Quality: Environmentally Benign Marine Antifouling Coatings – Code 332” (co-PI’s: J. Lou, Q. Li, V. Khabashesku) submitted: January 2009 “Bulk Ternary Alloy Crystal Growth: Control of Composition and Microstructure with Tailored Magnetic Stirring of the Melt” DARPA , submitted: February 5, 2010 “Thermodynamics of Ternary Alloy Crystal Growth” 2009 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program. AFRL, Hanscom Air Force Base, MA., submitted: November 30, 2009 “BRIGE: Impacting Research and Outreach through Engineering Solutions to the World Water Crisis” NSF Directorate for Engineering, EEC, submitted February 2008. “Sustainable Solutions to the World Water Crisis through Design and Education” EPA P3, People, Prosperity and the Planet, Phase II, submitted March 2008 “Sustainable Water Use in Biodiesel Production” start-up grant to the Shell Center for Sustainability, submitted October 2007. (co-PI: Q. Li) “Bio-inspired Hierarchically Patterned Surfaces for Control of Biofouling in Naval Applications” MURI ONR, submitted August 2007. (co-PIs: J. Lou, Q. Li, V. Khabashesku) “Mitigation of Combined Fouling during Nanofiltration of Complex Fluids” NSF Directorate for Engineering, CBET, Fluid Dynamics and Hydraulics, CAREER proposal, submitted July 2007. “Increasing Enrollment of Women in Engineering, Mathematics and Science Degree Programs through Early High School Mentoring” ADVANCE Mini-Grant, submitted February 15, 2007.


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“Effect of Ionic Solutions on the Conformation of Colloids and Macromolecules” The Welch Foundation, submitted January 2007. “Mixing in Microfluidic Chemical Reactors by Thermoelectromagnetic Convection” The Welch Foundation, January 27, 2006.

“Stability of Thermoelectromagnetic Convection (TEMC) in Materials Processing” NSF Directorate for Engineering, Division of Chemical and Transport Systems, September 15, 2005.

Other Grants Received

NSF grant for travel to the 2012 International Marangoni Association conference in Haifa, Israel [$1500] 2011-2012 Brown Teaching Grant “Thermal-Fluids Demo Cart to Engage Students in Lectures” [$3200] NSF grant for travel (Houchens and Yue Huang) to the 2010 International Marangoni Association conference in Florence, Italy [$2000] Support from HP to attend International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) 2009 HP

Technology for Teaching Worldwide Higher Education Conference [~$2500] DREAM support from Mel and Susie Glasscock [$2000] Fall 2008

NSF grant for travel to the 2008 International Marangoni Association conference in Tokyo, Japan [$1000]

Paul M. Boyle - Paul Paslay Fellow 2007-2008 AGEP Summer Internship, Summer 2007, supporting Laura Campo (rising senior mech) and Claire

Krebs (rising junior mech) North American Membrane Society Travel Grant, supporting Jack Hale (junior mech) to present at

2007 annual meeting Schlumberger support for Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Rice-Austin College Expo, held March 23, 2007 [$1750]

Brown Undergraduate Research Internship, Spring 2007, supporting Jack Hale (junior mech)

Brown Undergraduate Research Internship, Fall 2006, supporting Ali Hamshari (senior mech)

Brown Undergraduate Research Internship, Summer 2006, supporting Ali Hamshari (senior mech)

Paul R. Paslay Excellence Fund, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Department, Rice University, “Developing an ASME Forum and Symposium on Fundamental Fluid Mechanics”


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Paul R. Paslay Excellence Fund, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Department, Rice University, “Instrumentation of Obstetrics Forceps”

University of Florida grant for 95% waiver of registration and board to the 2006 International Marangoni Association (IMA-3) conference in Gainsville, FL

travel and lodging expenses from Dr. Jordan Konisky, Rice University Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies, to visit NSF and ONR in October 2005

Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineering grant for travel and expenses to present an invited talk at the 2005 Mechanical Engineering Congress of the JSME in Chofu, Japan

NASA grant (via Gordon Conference Chair’s Fund) for waiver of registration and lodging fees and travel expenses to the 2005 Gordon conference on Engineering Sciences for Space Exploration in Les Diablerets, Switzerland

NSF grant for travel to the 2004 International Marangoni Association conference in Brussels, Belgium

APS Division of Fluid Dynamics grant for waiver of registration fee and travel expenses to the 2004 DFD meeting in Seattle, WA

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) allocations for 10,000 service units each on the Origin2000 Array (#CTS020008N) and IBM p690 (#DMS030003N), 2002 and 2003 respectively; 8,000 service units on the IBM p690 (#CTS050005), 2004, UIUC

Schaller travel grants, 2001 and 2003, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, UIUC

Graduate College conference travel grants, 2001 and 2003, UIUC

Awards

2012 ASEE Outstanding New Mechanical Engineering Educator Award (inaugural award for “potential, effort and persistence to make sustained and exceptional contributions to mechanical engineering education” from the ASEE mechanical engineering division) 2012 ASME South Texas Section Claude L. Wilson Educator of the Year Award (for “contributions to developing engineers for the benefit of society”) 2012 Student Association Mentor Recognition Award (awarded to one faculty or staff member for service to Rice, mentorship to students, dedication, contribution to student development) 2012 Salgo Teaching Award (Rice’s oldest award, awarded to one professor each year across the university based on a vote of junior and senior students) 2011 National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Education Invitee


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2011 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching (awarded to six - nine faculty members each year across Rice based on votes of alumni who graduated two and five years prior) 2011 C.M. and Demaris Hudspeth Award for DREAM sponsorship (awarded to one faculty member and one staff member each year for notable contribution to the success of a student organization in which sponsor shows an extra dedication and commitment to the organization outside the 9-5 work schedule, contributes to the success and enjoyment of the organization and genuinely interacts with group members) 2011 Best Practices in K-12 and University Partnerships panel winner, ASEE K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division. ASEE Paper 2011-167 2009 Salgo Teaching Award (Rice’s oldest award, awarded to one professor each year across the university based on a vote of junior and senior students) Nominee for the Office of Academic Advising, Excellence in Advising Award, 2009, 2012. Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize finalist, spring 2009 (one of seven finalists across Rice, and the only finalist from engineering) 2009 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program. AFRL, Hanscom Air Force Base, MA. 2008 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program. AFRL, Hanscom Air Force Base, MA. ASEE Environmental Division Early Career Paper Award, 2008 Honorable Mention at the 2008 EPA P3 Expo

Mavis Memorial Award to support students seeking academic careers, 2003-04, UIUC

Professional Development and Professional Society Membership

Working to P.E. licensure

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME

American Physical Society, APS

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, AIAA

American Academy of Mechanics, AAM

American Society for Engineering Education, ASEE Sigma Xi, Rice-Texas Medical Center Chapter Membership Chair, 2006 - 2009


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Service

Service to Rice University

ITAC Ed. (Committee on Technology and Education), 2009 - present

Engineering Divisional Advisor, 2008 - present participated in the 2008 Fluids Education Workshop, sponsored by APS and NSF, November 22,

2008, San Antonio, TX volunteered for the Admitted Student Contact Program, February 26, 2008, contacted 6 top engineering applicants participated in “Promoting an Undergraduate Research Culture”, Kerry K. Karukstis, 2007-2008 President, Council on Undergraduate Research Professor of Chemistry, Harvey Mudd College GEAR Up Day judge in conjunction with SHPE, November 9, 2007 NSHMBA’s “Living On versus Living Off Campus” 100+ underrepresented high school students contacted 5 admitted Owl Scholars by phone, spring 2007 resident associate, Wiess College, August 2006 – present contacted 3 admitted Owl Scholars by phone/email, spring 2006 faculty associate, Wiess College, August 2005 – present

Service to George R. Brown School of Engineering

Founder and Director, DREAM – Achievement through Mentorship, fall 2007 – present faculty member, proposal to establish the Rice 360°: Institute for Global Health Technologies Engineering Curriculum Committee (standing), fall 2007 – summer 2008, 2009 - present lead the effort to create the Engineering Advising Catalog (aka “Blue Book”) faculty representative, Majors Day Fair, February 27, 2008 mock interviewer, ADVANCE seminar talks, October 16, 2007 faculty representative, Engineering Orientation, August 20, 2007 (O-Week) faculty advisor, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, June 2007 - present


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presentations on water filtration, solar and wind power to Klein District Middle School Students, SWE and AIChE, Saturday, April 21, 2007 panelist, Owl Weekend Engineering Panel and Lab Tours, April 16, 2007 attended AGEP Faculty Workshop, April 4, 2007 design competition judge and panelist, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Rice-Austin College Expo (RACE), March 23, 2007 faculty representative, Majors Day Fair, February 21, 2007 presenter, Sally Ride Festival, October 28, 2006 attended ADVANCE reception, October 24, 2006 Graduate Studies Strategic Planning Committee, fall 2006 Mentoring at Austin High School (HISD), fall 2006 – present including science fair support and tutoring – developed into the D.R.E.A.M. Program Information Technology Strategic Planning Committee, summer 2006 – present member, Computer and Information Technology Institute, fall 2005 – present

Service to Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Mechanical Engineering Major Advisor, August 2006 – present Awards Committee, August 2006 – June 2007. August 2008 - present Mechanical Engineering representative at Academic Lunches, O-Week 2007 Mechanical Engineering representative at Academic Fair, O-Week 2007 assisted in response to 2006 ABET Review, April 2007 presenter, ASME South Texas Section 2007 Honors and Awards Evening, April 19, 2007 ASME Faculty Advisor, September 2006 – present Mechanical Engineering representative at Academic Lunches, O-Week 2006 Mechanical Engineering representative at Academic Fair, O-Week 2006 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, August 2006 – present


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Computational Committee, August 2005 – August 2007 Graduate Committee, August 2005 – August 2007

Service to External Professional Community

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition

2012 ASEE, San Antonio, TX (June)

K-12 and Pre-College Division Committee

Session Chair

2011 ASEE, Vancouver, Canada (June)


Session Chair

2010 ASEE, Louisville, KY (June)


Session Chair and co-Chair

2009 ASEE, Austin, TX (June)


Environmental Engineering Committee

Session Chair (substitute, unlisted) 2008 ASEE, Pittsburg, PA (June)


Environmental Engineering Committee

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE)

2012 IMECE, Houston, TX (November)

Topic Co-Organizer: 12th Symposium on Fundamental Issues and Perspectives in Fluid Mechanics

Session Chair 2011 IMECE, Denver, CO (November)



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2010 IMECE, Vancouver, Canada (November)


Computational Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee (CFDTC)

Fluid Mechanics Technical Committee (FMTC)

Session Chair and co-Chair 2009 IMECE, Lake Buena Vista, FL (November)

Topic Co-Organizer: 6th Symposium on Fundamental Issues and Perspectives in Fluid Mechanics 2008 IMECE, Boston, MA (November)

Topic Co-Organizer: 3rd Forum on Fundamental Issues and Perspectives in Fluid Mechanics



Session Chair and co-Chair 2007 IMECE, Seattle, WA (November)

Topic Co-Organizer: 2nd Forum on Fundamental Issues and Perspectives in Fluid Mechanics (unlisted)



Session Chair and co-Chair 2006 IMECE, Chicago, IL (November)



Session Chair and co-Chair 2005 IMECE, Orlando, FL (November)



ASME Fluids Engineering Division (FED) Conference

2008 FED, Jacksonville, FL (August)



Session Chair and co-Chair


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2007 FED, San Diego, CA (July)



Session Chair and co-Chair 2006 FED, Miami, FL (July)



APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) Annual Meeting

2012 65th APS DFD, San Diego, CA (November)

Session Chair 2008 61st APS DFD, San Antonio, TX (November)

Session Chair 2005 58th APS DFD, Chicago, IL (November)

Session Chair

Technical Program Committee (sorted abstracts and recommending session chairs; committee convened in Urbana, IL on August 17 and 18, 2005)

DoD

served on the review panel for the 2008 SMART (Science, Mathematics, And Research for Transformation) Defense Scholarship for Service Program

NASA

NASA MUST Mentor, 2008 – 2010.

NSF

NSF review panelist, April 2012 NSF review panelist, April 2009 NSF review panelist, June 2007 NSF review panelist, January 2007 NSF review panelist, May 2006


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Other

Board of Directors for the Rice – TMC Sigma Xi chapter, 2006-2011 (membership chair 2006-2009)

reviewer for: International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow Journal of Heat Transfer Journal of Fluids Engineering International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer ASME IMECE conference manuscripts

served as membership officer for the Microgravity and Space Processing Technical Committee at the 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 2004, Reno, NV

graduate student advisor to the grievance committee, academic years 2002-03 and 2003-04, UIUC

Community Outreach

developed the DREAM-Achievement through Mentorship program, August 2007 - present developed a mentoring program between Rice students and underprivileged high school students at

Stephen F. Austin High School (HISD) to promote mathematics, science and engineering education. In the 2006-2007 academic year, mentors volunteered over 100 hours at Austin High School.

volunteered with AIAA at the Elves and More bike build, December 2005, Houston, TX

demonstrated the modes and importance of heat transfer to 7th grade science classes at Edison Middle School, Champaign, IL

assisted a science team from Central High School, Champaign, IL in understanding elastic phenomena and designing a tether system to stop free-falling weights

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