SUMMARY VITA – James W. Hiestand, Ph.D.

Professor

 

Years on the Faculty:      19 (1972-73, 1985-2003) with appointment to Professor in 2001.

 

Degrees:

B. Aero. E. Aeronautical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1965.

M. Eng. Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, 1966.

Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, 1973.

 

Other Related Experience:

Creative Educational Activities in last five years:

Developed new course combing Excel, Visual Basic Application, and numerical methods, 2002.

Developed MATLAB material for ENME, Mechanical Vibrations (2002)

Developed alternate method of solving Lyapunov equation (paper in preparation)

Developed engineering programming course using C++

On-going work on modeling of room airflow, initially with ANSYS FLOTRAN

Worked with minority high school students, summer (1998)

Conferences and Meetings attended in last five years:

       CFD-ACE workshop, 2003

States Registered: Tennessee (inactive status)

Combustion Engineering, Chattanooga, Tenn. (1973-1985),

Clarkson College, Potsdam, NY (Instructor, 1967-1969).

 

Consulting and Patents:

Associates (heat transfer, energy usage analysis), 

FBT (ANSYS heat transfer modeling);

McKee Bakery (non-Newtonian flow modeling);

TVA (economic analysis of coal usage, baghouse modeling, fluidized bed heat transfer coefficient development, calcination and sulfation modeling)

Combustion Engineering (modification of HTGR computer code; parametric analysis of accident loading, computer modeling of lab test)

Roper Corp.  (ANSYS heat transfer modeling)

Maytag Corp. (ANSYS heat transfer modeling)    

 

Principal Publications of Last Five Years:

“Heat Transfer in a Region with Non-Uniform Boundary Conditions,” with B. Belinskiy, Applicable Analysis, pp. 25-42, Vol. 75, 2000. 

 

Scientific and Professional Society Memberships:

ASME

 

Honors and Awards:

“Exceptional Merit” Faculty Performance Awards in 1999, 2001.

Outstanding Engineering Faculty Award, 1999.

 

Institutional Service in the Last Five Years (committee assignments, etc.):

UTC Faculty Senate 1998-1999, 2000-2003, 2nd Vice President (2002-2003)

UTC Handbook Committee, Chair (1999-2000, 2002-2003)

UTC General Education Committee, Chair (1998, 2000-2002)

UTC Financial Appeals Committee (2002)

Engineering Scholarship Committee, Chair (1998-2003)

Engineering Curriculum Committee (2002-2003)

Advisor and Treasurer, Tau Beta Pi Student Chapter (1998-2003)

Treasurer, UTC Chapter, Sigma Xi (1998-2002).

Chair, UTC Undergraduate Education Committee, (1998-2000)

 

Professional Service in the Last Five Years:

Chattanooga Section ASME, Recording Secretary, Director (1999-2002)

Chattanooga Section ASME President (1998-1999)

 

Professional Development Activities in the Last Five Years:

Learning to use CFD-ACE, commercial CFD software

Self-taught C++, MATLAB, VBA software