Six MEEG honors students working with the NED3 lab defended their honors theses in Spring 2025.
Reunion of CTRC at 2025 Gordon Research Conference: Micro and Nanoscale Phase Change Phenomena.
Dr. Hari Pandey (Ph.D., first Ph.D. student of NED3), Joshua Mora Sanchez (BSME, Summa Cum Laude), and Josef Frankhouse (BSME, Summa Cum Laude) at the Fall Commencement.
Han Hu’s visit to the Advanced Manufacturing Center (picture with Dr. Rick Barker and Bruce Thomas) and Aerospace Center (picture with Vince Gemmiti) at the University of Arkansas – Pulaski Technological College (UA-PTC).
Han Hu with PI Jennifer Fowler at the 2025 Arkansas NSF EPSCoR DART Annual Meeting in Little Rock.
Hari Pandey and his committee members after his Ph.D. defense.
NED3 lab members facilitating ESA.
Han Hu at the 2024 ITherm ITherm Conference.

Hari Pandey presenting his paper on two-phase immersion cooling at ITherm 2024 in Denver, CO.
Stephen Pierson at the Cardinal & White Celebration.

NED3 Group Picture – Spring 2024.
Hari Pandey and Dylan Wallen, collaborator from U Cincinnati ran acoustic sensing tests of flow condensation at NASA Glenn Research Center.
DatadDroid at 24th Arkansas Governor’s Cup Award Luncheon.

Spring 2024 Class of MEEG 2403-002 Thermodynamics with Han Hu.
Battlebot demo by Robotics Interdisciplinary Organization of Teams (RIOT) during the UofA campus visit of George Jr. High School and Lakeside Jr. High School.
UofA Campus visit of Chris Rogers, Project Manager, John Eustace, Project Engineer, and Yinan Li, Systems Engineer from ZIN Technologies – Powered by Voyager Space.

Jackson Marsh at the 2024 Arkansas STEM Posters at the Capitol event in Little Rock, AR.

Han Hu at the 2023 GRid-connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems (GRAPES) Conference in Fayetteville, AR.

Han Hu at the 2023 IEEE-USA Innovation, Workforce, and Research Conference (IWRC). (From left to right) Jerri Jenise James from UAPB, Weston Waldo from UT Austin, Han Hu, and Bridgett Williams Pinkins from UAPB.

Stephen Pierson gives the final presentation during the UofA STEAM Training in Entrepreneurial Practices (STEP) I-Corps Closing Workshop at Brewer Family Entrepreneurship Hub.
NED3 Students at 2023 ASME Summer Heat Transfer and Energy Sustainability Conferences in Washington DC. First photo (from left to right): Hari Pandey, Ethan Weems, Christy Dunlap, Jackson Marsh, and Amanda Williams.



First photo (from left to right): Hari Pandey, Ethan Weems, Corbin Russ, and Anthony Tello at the 2023 Arkansas Space Grant Symposium in Morrilton, AR. Second photo: Amanda Williams at the symposium.

News:
5/1/2025
5/1/2025: Congratulations to Jackson Burnett on defending his honors thesis!
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4/28/2025: Congratulations to Chinmaya Joshi (MEEG Outstanding Senior, First-Ranked Senior Scholar), Daniel Curl (First-Ranked Senior Scholar), and Stephen Pierson (NSF GRFP Honorable Mention) for being recognized at the College of Engineering Student Honors and Awards Reception!
4/28/2025
4/28/2025: Congratulations to Harrison Greene and Chinmaya Joshi on defending their honors theses!
4/24/2025 honors defense
4/24/2025: Congratulations to Grant Resler and Jackson Minnick on defending their honors theses!
4/24/2025
4/24/2025: Our lab is part of an Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) Impact Grant led by Prof. Yue Zhao (link).
4/21/2025
4/21/2025: Congratulations to (AAS Undergraduate Research Award, ASEE poster Award), (ASGC WFD Award, ASEE poster award), (AAS Undergraduate Research Award), (AAS Undergraduate Research Award), (NSF GRFP Honorable Mention), and (ASGC STEM Award), who were recognized in the 2025 State and National Awards Reception!
4/12/2025
4/12/2025: Congratulations to Jake Le on receiving an Honors College Research Grant to study the impact of human occupancy on building energy consumption.
4/11/2025
4/11/2025: Christy Dunlap and Clancy Milam presented their work at the 2025 Arkansas Space Grant Symposium.
4/10/2025
4/10/2025: Colin Sim presented our collaborative work with Prof. Alan Mantooth’s lab on acoustic detection of partial discharge at the 2025 NASA EPSCoR Conference.
4/5/2025
4/5/2025: Mohammad Ishraq Hossain, Daniel Curl, Cade Marcinkovich, and Chinmaya Joshi presented their work at the 2025 Arkansas Academy of Science Annual Conference!
4/1/2025
4/1/2025: Han Hu is awarded the Twenty-First Century Professorship in Engineering (link).
12/19/2024
12/19/2024: UA-PTC has been awarded a $2.5 million grant to establish an Aerospace Center of Excellence (ACE) with industrial and academic partners. Our lab is part of this alliance (link).
12/14/2024
12/14/2024: Congratulations to Hari Pandey (my first Ph.D. student), Joshua Mora Sanchez (BSME, summa cum laude), and Josef Frankhouse (BSME, summa cum laude) on their graduation!
12/13/2024
12/13/2024: Congratulations to Daniel Curl and Abigail Henson on receiving their Honors College Research Grants!
12/2/2024
12/2/2024: Congratulations to Joshua Mora Sanchez on defending his honors thesis!
11/21/2024
11/21/2024: Congratulations to NED3 on receiving an NSF grant to develop immersion-cooled electric motors for transportation decarbonization (link).
10/25/2024
10/25/2024: Congratulations to Chinmaya Joshi, Joshua Mora Sanchez, and Cade Marcinkovich on receiving their Arkansas Academy of Science (AAS) Undergraduate Student Grants!
10/4 – NASA RID
10/4/2024: Congratulations to NED3 on receiving a NASA EPSCoR RID grant on experimental and machine learning studies of boiling heat transfer!
10/4
10/4/2024: Congratulations to Braden Stevens, Christy Dunlap, and Hari Pandey on receiving the Reginald R. ‘Barney’ & Jameson A. Baxter Graduate Fellowship!
10/2
10/2/2024: Congratulations on NED3 on receiving an Honors College Faculty Equipment and Technology Grant to acquire a high-frequency acoustic emission sensing system!
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NED3 Group Photo – Fall 2022: (front row, left to right) Najee, Keaton, Samson, Anthony, Christy, Noshin, Amanda; (back row, from left to right) Han, Jackson, Ethan, Corbin, Grant, Hari.
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Stephen Pierson with his flow boiling test facility (left) and Ethan Weems and Grant Resler with their air cooling test facility (right).
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ASEE Midwest Section Best Student Paper Awards 2022 Annual Conference showing (from left to right) Han Hu, Hari Pandey, Amanda Williams, and Stephen Pierson.
First place student award photo
Dr. Rohit Dua, Conference Program & Paper Awards Chair presenting the award to Stephen Pierson. (link)
ASEE Tulsa 2022 Group Photo
NED3 members attending 2022 ASEE Midwest Section Conference in Tulsa, OK (from left to right): Amanda Williams, Christy Dunlap, Stephen Pierson, and Jackson Marsh.
Pool boiling facility with multimodal sensing in Hu Lab at UAF
Han Hu, Hari Pandey, Noshin Nawar, Ethan Weems, and Jackson Marsh with their pool boiling test facility with multimodal sensing.
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NED3 Group Photo – Summer 2022 (from left to right): Amanda Williams, Jamaria Lewis, Jillian Jones, Stephen Pierson, Kaitlyn Vihn, Christy Dunlap, Hari Pandey, Ethan Weems, Jackson Marsh, and Han Hu.
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NED3 members at Discover Engineering with Christy (1st from left) is showcasing her AI App for classifying shapes, and other lab members preparing for their talks.
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DNA Sequencing Project Team including Prof. Steve Tung, Jeremy Meyer, Molly FitzGibbons (REU), Jillian Jones (DART SURE), Christy Dunlap, and Jamaria Lewis (DART SURE).
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Christy Dunlap gave a poster presentation on “Image and Sound Based Machine Learning Models for Boiling Regime Classification” at the 2022 DART & Arkansas NSF EPSCoR Annual Conference in Little Rock, AR.
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Capstone Project team members (from left to right): David Clark, Mason Ashmore, Waylon Cargile, Justin Wu, and Tanner Hartman with their flow boiling test facility at the Spring 2022 CP Expo.
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Arkansas Space Grant Consortium Student Intensive Training Award Recipients (from right to left) Jackson Marsh, Stephen Pierson, Timothy Loftness, Landon Lemmons, and Matthew Buchanan and mentor Han Hu at 2022 State and National Award Ceremony.
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Arkansas Space Grant Consortium Workforce Development Award Recipient Anthony Tello and mentor Han Hu at 2022 State and National Award Ceremony.
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Arkansas Research Thermal (ART) I-Corps Team: (from left to right) Industrial Mentor Catherine Corley from Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center, Entrepreneurial Lead Hari Pandey, and Technical Lead Han Hu.
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Jeff Pummill, Director of Strategic Initiatives & User Services at AHPCC and Han Hu collaborate on AI-powered electronic cooling.
















