Srinath Ekkad
Virginia Tech College of Engineering
Srinath Ekkad, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Commonwealth Center for Aerospace Propulsion Systems at Virginia Tech, will deliver two invited keynotes at international conferences in China and Korea in October 2012.
Ekkad will visit Beijing to give a keynote on “Challenges in Gas Turbine Heat Transfer” at the 8th International Symposium on Heat Transfer (ISHT-8). Afterwards, he will travel to Jeju, Korea to give another invited talk at the 5th International Symposium on Fluid Machinery and Fluids Engineering (ISFMFE 2012) and will deliver a keynote on “Advanced Turbine Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer Studies at Virginia Tech.”
Ekkad is well-known for his contributions in the area of heat transfer with emphasis on gas turbine systems. He also works in energy devices and cooling of electronic systems. Ekkad joined the mechanical engineering faculty in 2007 after nine years at Louisiana State University and two years as a senior project engineer in the Turbines Department at Rolls-Royce Allison Engine Co. in Indianapolis.
Ekkad has published over 170 peer-reviewed papers and is a co-author of a seminal book, “Gas Turbine Heat Transfer & Cooling Technology,” published in 2001 by Taylor & Francis, LLC. Ekkad was also the inaugural recipient of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator in Heat Transfer award in 2004.
Ekkad completed his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 1995 and his M.S. from Arizona State University in 1991, both degrees in the area of turbine cooling and heat transfer. He previously earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in India in 1989.