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:
8/30/2022: Corbin and Anthony gave talks about their summer internship at Marshall Space Flight Center at the MEEG Graduate Seminar. The title of Corbin’s talk is “NASA Engineering Design: Lunar Rover and Accessory, Optical Technology” and the title of Anthony’s talk is “Visualization and Contactless Magnetic Joint Feasibility Project.”
8/18/2022: Congratulations to Christy on receiving the Doctoral Student Presentation Travel Grant to support her trip to Tulsa, OK!
8/18/2022: Congratulations to Jackson on receiving the Honors College Conference Travel Grant to support his trip to Tulsa, OK!
8/17/2022: Jackson’s paper titled “Introducing LabVIEW and Arduino as Data Acquisition System Alternatives” was accepted by the ASEE Midwest Section Conference 2022. Congratulations!
8/15/2022: Congratulations to Hari on winning the W.R. Thomas Endowed Doctoral Engineering Fellowship!
8/15/2022: Congratulations to Christy on winning the W.R. Thomas Endowed Doctoral Engineering Fellowship!
8/15/2022: Amanda’s paper titled “Microscopic and Video-Based Optics Techniques for Pool Boiling” was accepted by the ASEE Midwest Section Conference 2022. Congratulations!
8/10/2022: Congratulations to Stephen on receiving the Honors College Conference Travel Grant to support his trip to Tulsa, OK!
8/8/2022: Stephen’s paper titled “Enhancing Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Education with CAM and CNC Machining” was accepted by the ASEE Midwest Section Conference 2022. This is a collaborative paper with Josh Goss at CASE. Congratulations!
8/8/2022: Christy’s paper titled “Infusing High-Performance Computing and Machine Learning in Mechanical Engineering Education” was accepted by the ASEE Midwest Section Conference 2022. This is a collaborative paper with Prof. Jeff Pummill at AHPCC. Congratulations!
7/8/2022: Congratulation to Jackson Burnett, Jackson Marsh, and Stephen Pierson on their Honors College Research Grants! These awards will support Jackson B.’s project “Additive Manufacturing of Sustainable Running Shoes,” Jackson M.’s project “Quantitative Prediction of Boiling Heat Flux Utilizing Acoustic Emission Sensing,” and Stephen’s project “Characterizing the Effects of Geometry and Manufacturing Technique on the Cooling Efficiency of Microchannel Heat Sinks.”
6/27/2022: NED3 members Han, Jillian, and Jamaria held a project during the outreach event at Fayetteville Public Library. Many thanks for the support from ENGR Coordinator of Outreach and Recruitment Activities, Kaitlyn Harp, and Ambassadors Avia and Breanna!
6/24/2022: NED3 has organized a one-day event for the Explore Engineering Program to introduce 3D printing, hydraulic lifts, and other research projects to the attendees. The event went very well with the help of Brianna and Uriel. Many thanks for Keaton to design, print, and assemble the hydraulic lifts, Jillian for taking pictures, and Amanda, Christy, Ethan, Jamaria, Jillian, Kaitlyn, and Steve for their excellent presentations!
6/13/2022: Welcome Jamaria Lewis and Jillian Jones to UAF and NED3! Jamaria and Jillian will be doing their summer internships at UAF, supported by the DART Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Program. Their research is focused on leveraging advanced data analytics for biomedical applications
6/10/2022: Congratulations to Christy Dunlap on her Arkansas Space Grant Consortium Student Intensive Training award on “Development of a Deep Learning Framework of High-Fidelity Emulation of Land Information System!”
6/10/2022: Congratulations to Amanda Williams on her Arkansas Space Grant Consortium STEM award!
6/1/2022: Congratulations to Corbin Russ on winning the Arkansas Space Grant Consortium Workforce Development award!
5/22/2022: Congratulations to Amanda Williams, Ethan Weems, and Keaton Pottebaum on their Summer Undergraduate Research Grant awards! The awards will support Amanda’s project “The Influence of Wickability on the Critical Heat Flux of Hydrophilic Materials,” Ethan’s project “Characterization of Novel Air-Coated Heat Sink Designs Through Experimentation,” and Keaton’s project “Evaluating the Practicality, and Benefit of 3D Printing in STEM Education Using Lifts Printed with Various Materials.”
5/18/2022: Congratulations to NED3 on receiving the Chancellor’s GAP fund to study “Integrated Two-Phase Cooling and Non-Intrusive Sensing for Electronics Thermal Management in Data Centers!”
5/14/2022: Congratulations to David Clark on obtaining his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering! See the exciting moment at 1:49:53 of Spring 2022 College of Engineering Commencement.
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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.
















