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The 2004 Max Jakob Award was presented to
Vijay K. Dhir
at the
Heat Transfer Honors & Awards Luncheon
during the
2005 Heat Transfer / Fluids Engineering Conference
in San Francisco, California
on
July 17-22, 2005
Vijay
K. Dhir, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
was named Dean of UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering
and Applied Science in March 2003.
Born in India, Dhir received his
Bachelor of Science degree from Punjab Engineering College
in Chandigarh, India, in 1965 and his Master of Technology
degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur,
India, in 1968. He came to the United States in 1969 to continue
his university studies in mechanical engineering, receiving
his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1972. Dhir joined
the faculty at UCLA in 1974.
In the late 1960s he worked for
a short period in industry as an engineer, and for the past
30 years he has been a consultant for numerous organizations,
including GE Corp., Rockwell International, the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, and the Los Alamos and Brookhaven National Labs.
Dhir served as vice chair of the
UCLA Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from
1988 to 1991, and was chair of that department from 1994 to
2000. From July 2001 to February 2002, he served as the school's
associate dean for academic and faculty issues and as Interim
Dean from February 2002 to March 2003.
He
has worked to make UCLA's Engineering School a hub for interdisciplinary
research. In the last two years, the
School has won five competitive research centers from the
federal government and private industry that will bring more
than $100 million dollars to Southern California in the next
five years to spur research and development on emerging technologies.
Dhir
is the recipient of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(ASME) Heat Transfer Memorial Award in the Science category
and the Donald Q. Kern award from the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers. He is a fellow of ASME and the American
Nuclear Society. He was inducted into the University of Kentucky’s
College of Engineering Hall of Distinction in 2004. He also
received the IIT/Kanpur West Coast Alumni Leadership Award
for 2003.
Dhir
has been the senior technical editor for the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers’ Journal of Heat Transfer since 2000.
Prior to being named senior technical editor, he also served
as the Journal’s associate editor. He is also a former assistant
editor of Applied Mechanics Review. He is on the advisory
boards of several other journals.
Dhir also leads the boiling heat transfer lab, which
has conducted pioneering work in fundamental and applied sciences
involving boiling, an efficient process of heat removal. Currently
the lab is involved in the study of flow boiling, micro-gravity
boiling, nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics. Since 1999 a
team of researchers led by Dhir has been taking part in a
NASA research program to examine the effects of boiling in
space. More recently, Dhir partnered with UCLA electrical
engineering professor Elliott Brown on an innovative method
of removing high heat fluxes from power amplifier chips.
Thirty PhD students and forty MS students have graduated under
Dhir’s supervision. He is author or co-author of more than
250 papers published in archival journals and proceedings
of conferences.
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