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March 22, 2002

UNM PROFESSOR ELECTED FELLOW OF AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Arsalan Razani, Halliburton Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Mexico, has been elected as a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) International recently. ASME International is a nonprofit educational and technical organization serving a worldwide membership of 125,000. Only two percent of ASME members are elected Fellows.

“Being elected as a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering is an honor,” Razani said. “It is a great recognition for the Mechanical Engineering Department at UNM.”

Razani’s academic career spans 33 years. He has published two books and 100 referred articles in the areas of thermal science and engineering, radiation transport, and energy conversion and utilization. He has twice been awarded the School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award.

"The election of Professor Razani as fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers is a tremendous honor and reflects highly on the quality of faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering," said Marc Ingber, chairman and professor Mechanical Engineering Department.

"Professor Razani has had a distinguished career in our department. He has consistently been considered one of our top teachers by our students. He has a wide variety of research interests but perhaps his most passionate research topic is second law analysis which is crucially important today because of dwindling fossil-fuel energy supplies.

"He has conducted research on modeling and optimization of hydride heat pumps, including heat and mass transfer of hydrogen in metal hydride reactors. For five years he collaborated with Sandia National Laboratories on various projects. He has also been involved in research on heat transfer under periodically varying conditions, as well as heat transfer enhancement techniques and electronic cooling. During a year of sabbatical leave at General Atomic Company he participated in the design of Gas-Cooled fast Breeder Reactor (GCFR), nuclear heating calculations of GCFR control rods and blanket elements. He has conducted research on second-law analysis and optimization of thermal systems.

Razani received his master’s and Ph.D. from Purdue University in nuclear engineering. He received his bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering (mechanical engineering option) from Kansas State University.

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