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:
10/3/2021: Congratulations to NED3 on receiving an Honors College Faculty Equipment and Technology Grant! This grant will support the purchase of a 5-axis CNC mill for manufacturing advanced heat exchangers. (See UARK News).
9/20/2021: Congratulations to NED3 on receiving a Chancellor’s Fund for Innovation and Collaboration to support our collaborative research with Coridan Group (CHBC) and Zhao Group (ELEG)!
9/8/2021: Congratulations to NED3 on receiving a DART Seed Grant!
5/7/2021: Congratulations to Joseph Dees on winning the Garret Jeter Veteran of the Year Award!
3/1/2021: Han Hu gave a talk on “Prediction of Boiling Heat Flux with Convolutional Neural Networks & Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory” at the Baylor University BEARS Graduate Seminar.
1/7/2021: Congratulations to NED3 on receiving a Provost’s Collaborative Research Grant! NED3 will collaborate with Prof. Ryan Tian’s lab to develop COVID-19 sensors.
12/17/2020: Congratulations to NED3 on receiving an Engineering Research and Innovation Seed Funding (ERISF) award “Early Detection and Prevention of Boiling Crisis by Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory-Based Sequential Classification” in collaboration with Prof. Justin Zhan from Computer Science to develop machine learning models for boiling crisis detection.
12/15/2020: Congratulations to NED3 on receiving an XSEDE Research Allocation!
1/29/2020: Congratulations to NED3 on receiving an XSEDE Startup Allocation!
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10/30/2019: Congratulations to NED3 on receiving a research award from Safe Foods, Inc! NED3 will collaborator with Prof. Bob Betitle’s lab from Chemical Engineering to develop a lab-scale disinfection system using UV LEDs.
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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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Hari and Christy at ASME SHTC-ES 2022 Conference in Philadelphia.
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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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David Clark and Han Hu at the Spring 2022 College of Engineering Commencement .
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Connor Miller and Han Hu at the Spring 2022 College of Engineering Commencement .
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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.
I-Corps
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.
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Connor Heo and Han Hu at Connor’s commencement in Fall 2021.
Capstone Project team and their dip coater
CP team members (from left to right): Man Vu, Skyler Featherstone (Team Leader), Matthew Smith, and Christy Dunlap with their low-cost programmable dip coater in Spring 2021.
