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Nineteen students will receive a total of $173,000 through ASHRAE’s grants-in-aid program, which is designed to encourage students to continue their education in preparation for service in the HVAC&R industry.
The grants are awarded to full-time graduate students of HVAC&R-related disciplines.
Grant recipient Lauren Ronsse, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, is studying whether people with hearing impairments respond similarly as people with no impairments to seven mechanical system background noise conditions.
Other recipients of ASHRAE grants-in-aid and their projects are:
• Jasmin Raymond, Universite Laval, Sainte-Foy, QC, Canada, Geothermal Energy Extraction From Mine Waste Dumps;
• Soolyeon Cho, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, Development of an Easy-to-Use Simulation Tool for Designing High Performance Office Buildings in Hot and Humid Climates;
• Scott Hackel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Optimization of Hybrid Geothermal Heat Pump System;
• Federico Noris, University of Texas at Austin, Investigation of Biological and Non-Biological Contaminants on the HVAC Filter Dust;
• Jeremy Dreiling, Kansas State University, Indoor Air Quality in Health Care Facilities Focusing on Air Cleaning Methods and Technology;
• Yang Bin, National University of Singapore, Ceiling Mounted Personalized Ventilation Air Terminal Devices;
• Mohamed Alshehhi, University of Maryland, Electrostatic Gas-Liquid Separation – Application to Advanced On-line/On-Demand Separation Techniques;
• Benjamin Welle, University of California, Berkeley, Mixed-Mode Ventilation: A Blueprint for Design;
• Paulo Cesar Tabares Velasco, Pennsylvania State University, A New Energy Model to Meet the Sustainable Challenge by Enabling ASHRAE Engineers to Calculate Potential Energy Savings Due to Green Roofs;
• Donghyun Rim, University of Texas at Austin, Evaluation of Air-Change Effectiveness as an Indicator of Exposure to Indoor Particulate Matters;
• Bereket Asgedom Nigusse, Oklahoma State University, Fenestration Heat Gain Calculation for the Radiant Time Series Method;
• Prakash Rapolu, University of Cincinnati, Microchannel Flow Boiling of Carbon Dioxide Near Critical and Subcritical Pressures;
• Josephine Lau, Pennsylvania State University, Performance Modeling and Evaluation of In-Duct Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation Systems with Variable Operating Conditions;
• Ian Bell, Purdue University, Liquid Flooded Ericsson Cooler with Optimized Compressor and Expander. Bell also received the 2006–07 Grant-In-Aid Life Member Club grant, given to the highest-rated applicant;
• Ebrahim Al-Hajri, University of Maryland, College Park, Performance Characterization of Selected Refrigerants in Flat Plate Micro-Scale Condenser: Applications to Expanded Use of Micro-Channel Condensers;
• Zhao Zhang, Purdue University, Modeling of Airflow and Contaminant Transport in Commercial Aircraft Cabin;
• Donghyun Seo, University of Colorado at Boulder, Application of Solar Radiation/Illuminance Models to Advanced Daylighting and Solar Heat Gain Control Strategies; and
• Robert Slowinski, University of Colorado at Boulder, Fundamentals of Breathing Walls and Their Potential to Reduce Building Energy Consumption and Improve Indoor Air Quality.
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