Kennedy Receives ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) awarded Professor Lawrence Kennedy the Heat Transfer Memorial Award at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) in Boston. The ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, established in 1959, recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of heat transfer through teaching, research, practice and design, or a combination of such activities.
Kennedy is dean emeritus and professor of mechanical engineering emeritus at the University of Chicago, (UIC), having served as dean and professor since 1994. He is currently professor of mechanical engineering at The Ohio State University.
His primary accomplishments in heat transfer have been in fundamental and applied research in combustion and chemical reacting flows. Kennedy is widely recognized for his research on filtration combustion, catalytic combustion and non-equilibrium plasma. He has made seminal contributions in these areas and in the area of combustion synthesis of carbon nano-structures.
Kennedy is the author/co-author of over 200 technical publications and holds two patents. In addition he is the co-author of the advanced graduate text titled Plasma Physics and Engineering. He has served as editor in chief of the International Journal of Experimental Thermal and Fluid Sciences since 1995 and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Engineering Physics and Thermophysics.
