William P. King, a Kritzer Faculty Scholar and associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, has received the 2009 Bergles-Roshenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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William P. King, a Kritzer Faculty Scholar and associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, has received the 2009 Bergles-Roshenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
William P. King
William P. King
The annual award, presented to the top researcher in heat transfer under the age of 36, was given “for substantial contributions to the field of mechanical engineering through the development of nanometer-scale thermal processing and thermal measurement techniques, and the new physical insights made possible by these techniques.”
King received his BS degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Dayton, and his MS and PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. During 1999-2001, he spent 16 months in the Micro/NanoMechanics Group of the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. From 2002-2006, King served on the faculty at Georgia Tech.
At Illinois, his group works on nanoscale thermal and mechanical measurements, engineering of nanomechanical devices, nanomanufacturing, and nanometrology.
King is the winner of the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, the PECASE award from the Department of Energy, and the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research. He was named Young Manufacturing Engineer by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. In 2006, Technology Review magazine named him to the "TR35"--one of the people under the age of 35 whose innovations are likely to change the world.
His innovations have earned two R&D 100 Awards (2007 and 2008) and a Micro/Nano 25 Award. King is co-founder of two companies and he is a Fellow on the Defense Sciences Research Council. _______________
Contact: William King, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, 217/244-3864.
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