By Beth Miller
Ramesh K. Agarwal, PhD, the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2014 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Excellence in Engineering Education (Triple E) Award.
Agarwal received the award because of his long-standing participation and support of SAE’s engineering education initiatives. The award recognizes outstanding contributions made to activities related to the SAE Education Board. He will receive the award at the 2014 SAE World Congress in April in Detroit.
Philip Bayly, PhD, the Lilyan and E. Lisle Hughes Professor and chair of Mechanical Engineering, says this is the latest in a string of prestigious awards for Agarwal.
“We’re really fortunate that Ramesh, an internationally-recognized expert in computational fluid mechanics, is also such a dedicated and effective teacher,” says Phil Bayly, PhD, department chair and the Lilyan and E. Lisle Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering. “It’s nice to see him receive this well-deserved recognition.”
Agarwal has been on the Washington University Engineering faculty since 2001, bringing with him two decades of industry experience at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories (now Boeing Co.), NASA Ames Research Center and National Institute for Aviation Research. His research focuses on flow control, bio-fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics and electromagnetics. He also focuses on nanotechnology, carbon capture and sequestration and renewable energy systems.
He has received numerous honors and awards for his research contributions including the 2013 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International Leadership Citation; American Society of Mechanical Engineers Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award; Royal Aeronautical Society Gold Award; American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Aerodynamics Award; James B. Eads Award of Academy of Science of St. Louis; American Society for Engineering Education/AIAA John Leland Atwood Award; SAE Clarence Kelly Johnson Award; SAE Franklin W. Kolk Award and the AIAA Lindbergh Award, among others.
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