The Grainger College of Engineering

Sinha receives CAREER Award

3/4/2010

Sanjiv Sinha, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, has been awarded a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Sanjiv Sinha, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, has been awarded a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

 

In his research, Sinha investigates electro-thermal transport in nanostructures. His CAREER Award-winning project, titled “Anharmonic Dynamics of Thermal Transport in Nanotransistors and Across Hard-Soft Interfaces,” will investigate two aspects of thermal transport phenomena--anharmonicity (in soft matter) and coherence (in hard matter). Sinha envisions that by better understanding these two phenomena, it will be possible to develop tools for using them in a broad range of applications from transistor scaling to nanomedicine.

 

 

Sanjiv Sinha
Sanjiv Sinha

Sinha also plans to use the award to bring modern thermal science instruction to students, both at the K-12 level and at the university level. His research group will develop teaching kits (on Peltier cooling) for K-12 teachers and hold summer camps to introduce energy conversion concepts to high school students. At the university level, he will provide research-inspired problems for the undergraduate heat transfer course and develop a new graduate-level course on nano-transport.

 

Sinha received a PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford University  and worked in the Systems Technology Lab at Intel and at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the Illinois faculty in 2008. He leads a university team that recently was awarded one of the first Department of Energy ARPA-E grants (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy) to develop a novel waste heat capture system.
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Contact: Sanjiv Sinha, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, 217/244-1891.

Writer: Linda Conway, technical journal coordinator, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, 217/244-0379.

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This story was published March 4, 2010.