Ying Sun (mechanical engineer)

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Ying Sun is a Chinese-American mechanical engineer whose research interests include interface and colloid science, thermal fluids, and multiphase flow. [1] She is Herman Schneider Professor of Mechanical Engineering and head of the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. [2]

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Education and career

Sun graduated from Tsinghua University in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in thermal engineering. She went to the University of Iowa for graduate study in mechanical engineering, earning a master's degree in 2001 and completing her Ph.D. in 2006. [3]

She began her academic career as an assistant professor at Binghamton University; [2] Zhiting Tian, a master's student at Binghamton at that time, has named her as a mentor. [4] She moved to Drexel University in 2009, where she became Hess Family Endowed Chair Professor. [2] In 2019 she began a term as a program director at the National Science Foundation, in the Thermal Transport Processes Program. [2] [5] She moved to her current position at the University of Cincinnati in 2022. [2]

Recognition

Sun was elected as an ASME Fellow in 2020. [1] [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 MEM's Ying Sun Named ASME Fellow, Drexel University College of Engineering, September 10, 2020, retrieved 2023-09-01
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Rao, Anya (June 6, 2022), "UC names new head of mechanical and materials engineering department", UC News, University of Cincinnati, retrieved 2023-09-01
  3. "Expert Profile: Ying Sun", Research directory, University of Cincinnati, retrieved 2023-09-01
  4. Kocher, Chris (November 25, 2019), "Alumni Spotlight: Zhiting Tian, MS '09", BingUNews, Binghamton University, retrieved 2023-08-31
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