Younggil Park

Associate Professor
Younggil Park

Phone 863-874-8606

Location Main Campus

Office BARC-1175

Directory Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Younggil Park is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at IM体育官网 Polytechnic University. Before joining IM体育官网 Poly, he was an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas-Pan American.

Park has published 15 research papers in peer-reviewed journals in thermal-fluid sciences and engineering education. From 2016 to 2018, he was a co-PI of South Texas Industrial Assessment Center, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. From 2015 to 2017, he organized and directed K-12 engineering summer camps supported by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and University Transportation Center for Railway Safety.

  • Excellence award in faculty mentoring, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 2017
  • Supervisor of the year nomination, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 2016
  • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007
  • M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
  • B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 1999
  • Heat exchangers
  • Nanofluid heat transfer
  • Convective heat and mass transfer
  • Liquid spreading on surfaces
  • Low energy use thermal systems
  • Park, Y., 2018, 鈥溾�� Applied Thermal Engineering 131, 311-319.
  • Belmares, M., Park, Y., 2014, 鈥�,鈥� 14th International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference at Purdue, West Lafayette, IN.
  • Wang, Q., Han, X., Sommers, A. D., Park, Y., T鈥橨oen, C., and Jacobi, A. M., 2012, 鈥�,鈥� International Journal of Refrigeration 35(1) 7-26.
  • Han, X., Wang, Q., Park, Y., T鈥橨oen, C., Sommers, A. D., and Jacobi, A. M., 2012, 鈥�,鈥� Heat Transfer Engineering 33(12) 991-1009.
  • Dai, Z., Nawaz, K., Park, Y. G., Chen, Q., and Jacobi, A. M., 2012, 鈥�,鈥� Heat Transfer Engineering 33(1) 21-30.
  • Liu, L., Kim, E. S., Park, Y., and Jacobi, A. M., 2012, 鈥�,鈥� Heat Transfer Engineering 33(1) 31-41.
  • Park, Y., Liu, L., and Jacobi, A. M., 2010, 鈥�,鈥� Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 34(6) 720-724.
  • Henderson, K., Park, Y., Liu, L., and Jacobi, A. M., 2010, 鈥�,鈥� International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 53(5-6) 944-951.
  • Park, Y. and Jacobi, A. M., 2009, 鈥�,鈥� Journal of Heat Transfer 131(6) 061801.
  • Park, Y. and Jacobi, A. M., 2009, 鈥�,鈥� Journal of Heat Transfer 131(2) 021801.

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