Efstathios E. (Stathis) Michaelides, Ph.D., P.E.
Educational Background: |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:A. Permanent positions2007- present, Professor and Chair, Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio. 2006-2007 Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, University of North Texas. 2002-2007, Director, Southcentral Research Center (SCRC) of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC). 1992-2003, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, School of Engineering, Tulane University. 1990-1992, Professor and Head, Mechanical Engineering, Tulane University. 1990-2006 Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Tulane University. 1985-1990, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Delaware. November 1985- January 1987, Acting Chairman, Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Delaware. 1980-1985, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Univ. of Delaware. 1977 - 1980 Research Assistant, Brown University. 1978 - 1980 Supplementary Teaching Assistant, Brown University.
B. Short-term and sabbatical appointments:July-August 2002, Visiting Professor at the Ecole Superior de Physique et Chimie Industrieles, Paris, France. September-December 1997, Visiting Professor, Aristoteleion University, Thessaloniki, Greece. July-August 1997, Visiting Professor, Université Claude Bernard de Lyon, France. July-August 1995, Chercheur du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France. June-July 1994, Chercheur du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France. September 1989 - January 1990, Visiting Professor at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de los Ingenieros Industriales, Madrid, Spain.. September 1989 - January 1990, Visiting Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics, Complutenses University, Madrid, Spain. September 1989 - December 1989, Director – “Semester Program Abroad, Madrid”, University of Delaware. July-August 1989, Chercheur Associé du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France. January 1987 - July 1987, Chercheur Associé du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France. Summers 1975, 1976 Esso Petroleum Co., (Exxon) Thessaloniki, Greece.
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES (Journals):Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Irreversible Thermodynamics, 1997-present. Member of the Honorary Editorial Board, Archives of Thermodynamics, 1997-present. Associate Editor, International Journal of Exergy, 2005-present. Associate Editor, Far East Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2004-present. Guest editor, Powder Technology-An International Journal, two special issues on selected papers from the 4th International Conference of Multiphase Flows, volume 125, issues 2-3 pp. 103-317. Guest editor (with N. Thomas and Y. Matsumoto) Experimental Fluid and Thermal Science, special issue on selected papers from the 4th International Conference of Multiphase Flows, volume 26, pp. 593-869. Guest editor, Intern. Journal of Multiphase Flow, papers from the 4th International Conference of Multiphase Flows published in two special issues, vol. 28 pp. 1823-2016. Associate Technical Editor, ASME, Journal of Fluids Engineering (1988-94). Associate Editor, International Journal of Energy Systems (1985-93).
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:Past Chair, American Society of Mechanical Engineers-Fluids Engineering Division, 2006-2007. Freeman Scholar Awards Committee, ASME, 2007-2013. Chair, American Society of Mechanical Engineers-Fluids Engineering Division, April 2005-November 2006. Member of the Executive Committee, American Society of Mechanical Engineers-Fluids Engineering Division, 2002-2007. Vice-Chair (elected) of the International Organizing Committee of the 5th International Conference of Multiphase Flows, Yokohama, Japan-2004. Chair of the International Organizing Committee and General Conference Chair, 4th International Conference of Multiphase Flows-2001. Corresponding Member of the International Information Center for Multiphase Flow (one of four USA members), 1999-present. Elected to the Board of Governors for the International Conference of Multiphase Flow in June 1998 (1988-2004 as one of four delegates from North and South America) Newcomb Fellow, Tulane University 1998-2006. Founder and Director, Program of International Student Exchanges with University Claude Bernard of Lyon, 1994-present. Vice Chairman (1994-96) and Chairman (1996-98) of the ASME Multiphase Flow Technical Committee. Member of ASME-FED Honors Committee (1999-2002). Member of Louisiana Committee on Rapid Modes of Transportation, 1999-2001. Co-Chairman, 32nd Society of Engineering Science Technical Meeting, November 1995. Chairman, 1992, ASEE Southern Region, annual meeting. Vice-President (1991-92) and President (1992-93), ASEE, Southern Region. Registered Professional Engineering (LA) since 1991. One Patent, U.S. # 5,030,390 Chair or member of organizing committee of sixteen ASME Symposia and one A.I.Ch.E. Symposium in the area of Multiphase Flow. Of these, the Symposium on Gas-Particle Flows has been organized biennially since 1986 and attracts more than 200 attendees. Participated in several NSF, DOE and DOD proposal review panels.
LANGUAGES:Fluent English and Greek, conversational and reading knowledge of French and Spanish, reading knowledge of German, Italian and ancient Greek. RESEARCH INTERESTS:Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Multiphase Flow, Particulate Flow, Thermodynamics of Advanced Devices, Energy Systems, Energy Conversion and Conservation, HVAC, Sediment Flow, Separation Processes, Nuclear Waste Materials Handling.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Heat Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE, founding advisor of the UNT students chapter) Greek Technical Chamber, Oxford Union Society, Louisiana Society of Professional Engineers, Sigma Xi, Gamma Sigma Sigma.
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