Afshin Ghajar

Co-Author and Editor of "Heat and Mass Transfer - Fundamentals and Applications"

February 11, 2020

Dr. Afshin J. Ghajar is Regents and John Brammer Endowed Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University and an Honorary Professor of Xi'an Jiaotong University in Xi'an, China. He received his Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and doctorate all in mechanical engineering from Oklahoma State University. His expertise is in experimental heat transfer/fluid mechanics and development of practical engineering correlations.
He has received several outstanding teaching, research, advising and service awards from the College of Engineering at Oklahoma State University. His latest significant awards are the 75th Anniversary Medal of the ASME Heat Transfer Division, awarded in 2013; the ASME ICNMM 2016 Outstanding Leadership Award; and the 2017 Donald Q. Kern Award. Dr. Ghajar is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Heat Transfer Series editor for CRC Press/Taylor & Francis for which he has edited ten books to date and editor-in-chief of Heat Transfer Engineering, an international journal published 22 times per year by Taylor and Francis. Dr. Ghajar is also the co-author of "Cengel and Ghajar, Heat and Mass Transfer – Fundamentals and Applications" (Sixth Edition) McGraw-Hill, 2020. The Six Edition was published in April 2019.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2020-honorees/afshin-ghajar

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