ME professor earns prestigious award for heat transfer research
Published: Sep 25, 2023 9:00 AM
By Diane Pham
Mehmet Arik, associate professor of mechanical engineering, recently received the 2022 Hartnett-Irvine Award from the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT).
Arik was presented the award at the recent International Heat Transfer Conference in Cape Town, South Africa for his research presented in a paper titled “Effect of Subcooling and Pressure over Nucleate Pool Boiling on Micro Drilled Surfaces.” The paper was co-authored with Mete Budakli and Tolga Emir, both from Özyegin University.
“This is a great feeling, and I am proud of my team including graduate and undergraduate students as well as post-docs in my lab. This also energizes us to tackle harder problems and work together with the broader science community to execute groundbreaking research,” Arik said.
The Hartnett-Irvine Award is given annually to the best conference paper on the topic of heat and mass transfer. It was established to honor the lives and memory of ICHMNT founders James P. Hartnett and Thomas F. Irvine and aims to recognize outstanding leaders in the fields of energy resources and heat and mass transfer research.
“This award establishes the quality and contributions of our research to the heat transfer community. It is accepted as the Olympics of heat transfer research,” Arik said.
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Mehmet Arik (right) at the International Heat Transfer Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.
