Sowmya Raghu

I am currently a first-year Ph.D. Student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina. I have been awarded Grace Jordan McFadden Professor Program Fellowship by the Graduate School at UofSC. Before joining Ph.D., I worked as an adjunct faculty and research associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina. I completed my Master's in Aerospace Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University with minor in Computational Engineering. I have completed my Bachelor's in Aeronautical Engineering from Anna University, India. I have previously worked in Hindustan Aeronautical Limited in Bangalore as a Graduate Trainee in the Engine division. I have always been fascinated by gas turbine engines and been working in the field of heat transfer and turbo-machinery for the last four years. I have ventured into micro-channel and simulated nuclear fuel rod studies since February 2018 at the University of South Carolina. I have received several awards and accolades for my outstanding research and community outreach during my B.E and MS.

I am venturing into the upcoming and promising arena of incorporation of Artificial Intelligent systems in Heat transfer Enhancement studies with a motive of providing a safer environment for experimenters working in a hazardous environment and save valuable experimenter's time by using monitoring systems for the experiment.

I aspire to be a Professor moving forward in the field of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. I would like to create STEM outreach for young girl students and provide job opportunities for Women in Engineering.

Azzam S. Salman

I received my BSc and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Mosul University, Iraq in 2006 and 2009 respectively. I joined Enhanced Heat transfer Lab as a Ph.D. student at the University of South Carolina in the summer of 2014, after getting a scholarship from the Iraqi government. My main research focuses on spray cooling heat transfer enhancement experimentally. Also, working on spray cooling modeling and simulation by using STAR CCM⁺ to study the heat transfer process on the surfaces in detail. My future work will be using artificial intelligence to run and control heat transfer experiments with high heat flux. These experiments require a long time to reach the steady-state conditions, and sitting beside the experimental set up for a long time has a potential risk. I think using artificial intelligence will be a promising technique for saving time, and reducing the potential risk of heat transfer experiments.

Jamil Khan

Professor Dr. Jamil Khan is the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has been working in the field of heat transfer and fluid flow with phase change systems since the 1990's. He has been involved in enhanced heat transfer research for heat dissipation from electronic devices using both passive and active micro-channel cooling at single phase and with boiling.
Dr. Khan has established the Enhanced Heat Transfer Lab in the University of South Carolina's Department of Mechanical Engineering. Computational and experimental analysis of coupled electro-thermal processes related to high temperature fuel cells; experimental, modeling and computational studies of natural convection heat transfer and fluid-flow, and related to thermal hydraulics for nuclear reactor rod bundles are the main research arenas of the Lab group comprising of graduate and undergraduate students. Dr. Khan has published more than 145 papers and has won numerous awards for Research and Teaching.