NEW YORK, Aug. 7, 2008 -- Joseph C. Klewicki, Ph.D., a resident of Durham, N.H., and professor of mechanical engineering and dean of the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of New Hampshire, was honored by ASME. He was recognized for the paper titled “Reynolds Number Dependence and Scaling of the Turbulent Boundary Layer.” He received the ASME Freeman Scholar Award.
Established in 1926 and given biennially, the award is bestowed upon a person with wide experience in fluids engineering. The recipient is expected to review a coherent topic in his or her specialty, including a comprehensive statement of the state of the art, and suggest future research needs. The award was presented to Dr. Klewicki during the Fluids Engineering Summer Conference which was held in Vail, Colo., Aug. 2-5, 2009.
In his current position since August 2005, Klewicki also served as chair of the board of trustees of the New Hampshire Academy for Science and Design, New Hampshire’s first high-tech charter middle/high school, during 2006 and 2007.
Previously, Klewicki served in the mechanical engineering department at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, for 15 years. During the last four years at Utah he was department chair.
Klewicki’s areas of expertise are in vorticity dynamics; complex, unsteady and turbulent flow dynamics; mixing processes; atmospheric surface layer phenomena; and the experimental and analytical methods associated with the effective study of these flows.
Over the course of his career Klewicki has graduated 11 Ph.D. and 21 master’s students and, with these students, has published over 55 peer-reviewed journal articles.
An ASME Fellow, Klewicki served as student section advisor at the University of Utah from 1995 to 1999. He was advisor to Fluids Engineering Division student paper competition winners (1995, 1996, 2002) and finalists (1997, 2001, 2002, 2004). He received Michigan State University’s (MSU) ASME Outstanding Graduate Student Award in 1989.
His honors include a Distinguished Alumnus Award (2005) from MSU’s mechanical engineering department, a University of Utah College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award (2003), and recognition as the University of Utah’s Mechanical Engineering Professor of the Year (2000, 2001 and 2003).
Klewicki received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at MSU, East Lansing, in 1983. He went on the earned a master’s degree in mechanical engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1985 and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at MSU in 1989.
Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME is a not-for-profit professional organization promoting the art, science and practice of mechanical and multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences. ASME develops codes and standards that enhance public safety, and provides lifelong learning and technical exchange opportunities benefiting the global engineering and technology community.
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