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Edward G. Keshock, Ph. D.

Professor and Honorary Consul for Slovakia, State of Ohio Mechanical Engineering Department

Cleveland State University

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Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Detroit
Attended NASA Nuclear Reactor Training School, Lewis Research Center
Attended John Carroll University, Western Reserve University -- Physics and Mathematics
M. S. Mechanical Engineering, Oklahoma State University
Ph. D. Mechanical Engineering, Oklahoma State University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Sept. 1993 - Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Cleveland State University (CSU), Cleveland, Ohio

August 1990 - 1993 Chairman, Mechanical Engineering Department, Cleveland State University (CSU), Cleveland, Ohio

1977 -1990 Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee

1989 Visiting Distinguished Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics Department, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio

1983 -1985 Visiting Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

1974 - 1975 Visiting Scientist, Nuclear Engineering Department, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China.

1969 -1977 Associate Professor, Mech. Eng. & Mechanics Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.

1958- 1964 Research Engineer, NASA Lewis Research Center, Nuclear Reactor Division, Cleveland, Ohio.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Registered Professional Engineer, State of Tennessee
Fulbright Association member
American Society of Mechanical Engineers member
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

AWARDS/HONORS

•NASA ASEE Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, Glenn Research Center, 1969, 1970, 1972
•Tennessee Tomorrow Professor, University of Tennessee, 1980
•Visiting Scholar, U. S. National Academy of Sciences Visiting Scholar Exchange Program, Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China (CSC PRC), 1987
•Visiting Distinguished Professor, Air Force Institute of Technology, Aeronautics and Astronautics Department, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH, January August, 1990
•Honorary Consul for the Slovak Republic, State of Ohio, appointed May, 1999
•Fulbright Research Scholar, Institute of Thermal Physics & Lavrentiev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia and Institute of Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Jan.-May 2003
•Faculty Service Award, Fenn College of Engineering, Cleveland State University, 2008

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

•Nucleate and film boiling heat transfer; Microgravity and multigravity effects; Spray evaporative cooling
•Burnout and microgravity two phase flow; two phase flow instrumentation
•Gravitational effects upon two-phase flow, convective boiling and condensation processes
•Ice accretion processes; Phase change thermal energy storage systems
•Heat transfer mechanisms and thermophysical properties of porous solids and granular media
•Energy conservation; Energy conversion; Wind energy systems

REPRESENTATIVE INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS AND INVITED LECTURES:

•“Two-Phase Flow and Boiling Heat Transfer In A Microgravity Environment” Institute of Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, October 3, 2002.
•“A Review of the Effects of High Centrifugal and Acceleration Effects Upon Boiling Heat Transfer,” Institute of Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Oct. 7, 2002.
•Lectures on research in two-phase flow, Institute of Thermal Physics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy
of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, Jan.-Feb., 2003.
•Lectures on research in two-phase flow, Lavrentiev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, March, 2003.
•“Model for Evaluation of Fractional and Multi-g Effects Upon Two-Phase Flows,” Tsinghua University, Thermal Physics Laboratory, Beijing, China, June, 2006.

Various International Seminars/Lectures
Warsaw Polytechnic Institute, Poland Krakow Polytechnic Institute, Poland
Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland Czestachowa Pedagogical University, Poland Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey University of Santiago, Chile
University of Zagreb, Croatia Novi Sad Technical University, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia Boris Kidric Nuclear Energy Res. Inst., YugoslaviaTechnical University of Budapest, Hungary Institute for Energetics, Budapest, Hungary Beijing Research Institute, Beijing, China Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, ChinaKorea Institute of Energy and Resources, Daejon, Korea National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Taiwan Mechanical Eng. Dept., University of Singapore, SingaporeTechnical University of Munich, Munich, Germany Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan Shanghai Power Machinery Research Institute, Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Shanghai Institute of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia Chongqing Institute of Technology, Chongqing China TEACHING AND UNIVERSITY

Graduate Courses Taught
Conduction Heat Transfer, Convection Heat Transfer, Phase Change Heat Transfer, Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer, Condensation Theory and Design, Advanced Classical Thermodynamics, Radiation Heat Transfer, Space Power Systems, Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer

Undergraduate Courses Taught
Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Power Engineering, Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics Laboratories, Mechanics of Discrete Particle Systems (Statics), Dynamics, Basic Engineering, Heat Exchanger Theory and Design, Mechanical Engineering Design I and II

Short Courses Taught
Boiling Heat Transfer and Two Phase Flow, Tennessee Industries Week, 1978, 1979 and 1980
Multi Component Condensation and Boiling, National Bureau of Standards, November, 1983 (with Dr. R. A. W. Shock, AERE, Harwell, England, and Dr. David R. Webb, University of Manchester, England) Two Phase Flow and Heat Transfer, University of Santiago, Santiago, Chile, Sept., 1986 Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung Li, Taiwan, Republic of China, March, 1993

Representative Committees and Activities:
Cleveland State University:
Member of Technology Transfer Committee, Advanced Manufacturing Center (Cleveland
Advanced Manufacturing Program),

1991-93 Member of Steering Committee, Advanced Manufacturing Center (Cleveland Advanced Manufacturing Program),
1990-93 Member, Faculty Senate, 2006-2007; Member, Faculty Senate Steering Committee,
2006-2007 Member, Patent Review Committee,
2006-present Director (and architect), Design, Innovation and Entrepreneurial Center, 2008
Initiator and architect of MOU between CSU and Akron General Medical Center
Initiator and architect of MOU between CSU and Chongqing Institute of Technology, Chongqing, China
Initiator and architect of MOUs between CSU and Slovak Technical University, Zilina University and Technical
University of Kosice, Slovakia (in process)

University of Tennessee:
M & AE "Link" Person, University Center for International Education, 1986 1990
M & AE departmental representative, University Committee on International
Education,
1981 - 1983
Forged cooperative agreement between Univ. of Tennessee and Czestachowa Pedagogical University, Czestachowa, Poland, 1979-80. (University colleagues/associates later developed consortium with other universities establishing ties to Eastern European countries (1989-90)).

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