Dr. Dusan P. Sekulic
Employment / Academic Positions

EMPLOYMENT/ACADEMIC POSITIONS  

2007 – Present Professor, University of Kentucky, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Director of Graduate Studies, MSE Program , College of Engineering. Teaching duties (graduate/undergraduate courses: Advanced Heat Convection ME 626, Engineering Thermodynamics ME 220, Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics ME 620. Elements of Heat Transfer ME 325, MSE Program, College of Engineering: Modeling of Materials Processing in Manufacturing, MFS 699. Advising MS/Ph.D. students (UK ME Department).

2001 - Present Consulting Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

External Associate Adviser at the Harbin Institute of Technology, China (since 2004, materials science modeling aspects of metal joining, lead-free solder related phenomena).

1997 - Present Senior Research Manager; Program Director for R&D in Brazing and Heat Exchanger Design, University of Kentucky Center for Manufacturing,, University of Kentucky, College of Engineering, Lexington, KY;

Directs R&D activities related to fundamentals of metal joining processes (materials behavior in particular) for manufacturing and design of compact heat exchangers. Sustainability of manufacturing processes. Supervises development of several research areas related to: (i) modeling of brazing processes (fundamentals of aluminum brazing for compact heat exchangers – aluminum compact heat exchangers with micro channel extruded tubes and multi-louver fins), (ii) thermal design and manufacturing of compact heat exchangers, (iii) metal foam joining (aluminum, SS and copper), Funding: Governmental agencies (NSF, DOE), industrial partners (Caterpillar, Seniorauto Corporation, DELPHI, Commonwealth Aluminum, Pechiney, KB Alloys Corp., etc.) and UK Center for Manufacturing, and (iii) sustainability of manufacturing processes (KSEF).

2002 - 2006 Adjunct Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Kentucky

Teaching at ME Department and Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering : Transport Phenomena for Materials Engineering MSE 450, External member for Ph.D. and/or M.S. theses committees at DMI, Marquette University. Advising MS students (ME and MFS Programs)

1996-1997 Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. (Heat exchanger design theory. Formation of the brazing R&D program and laboratory. )

1994-1996 Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

Teaching activities related to undergraduate as well as graduate levels courses in the field of thermo-fluids. In particular, MEEN 111, MEEN 106, MEEN 112, MEEN 207, etc., (Thermodynamics, Energy systems modeling, simulation, and analysis, Heat Transfer.) Thermal equipment design R&D (in particular heat exchangers design), and re-development of the energy conversion processes laboratory. Research conducted in the fields of Thermodynamics fundamentals and Heat Transfer. Ph.D. and M.S. theses committee member (Thermodynamics, Energy systems).

1993-1994 Visiting Research Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN A co-principal investigator for a sponsored research project in the field of Thermodynamics (analysis of refrigeration systems). Teaching (Engineering Thermodynamics, 2 nd (senior) level course). Holds simultaneously a tenured academic position (a full Professor) at the University of Novi Sad (Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics) and conducts research in the field of heat transfer (multi-fluid heat exchanger design).

1988-1995 Associate Professor and Professor, College of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (Professor with tenure, 1993, Associate Professor with tenure until 1993) Teaching and research in thermo-fluid fields (Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics). Advising undergraduate and graduate students (Bachelor, Master, and Dr. Sc. Eng. Theses.) PI for a number of RP’s sponsored by National Science Foundation ( Yugoslavia), Department of Energy (USA), KFA Julich ( Germany), and numerous industry sponsors in the fields of heat transfer augmentation, thermal energy efficiency, heat exchanger design, etc. Founder of a heat transfer holographic visualization laboratory at UNS (for studies of low Re number flows and convection heat transfer augmentation phenomena).

1989 Visiting Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (Prof. B. Mikic) Cambridge, MA. Research in the fields of heat transfer augmentation and theory and design of heat exchangers.

1988-1989 Senior Fulbright Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering and materials Science, (Prof. A. Bejan) Duke University, Durham, NC. Research in the fields of Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, in particular irreversible engineering thermodynamics for design.

1977-1988 Assistant Professor and subsequently Docent Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. Teaching and research in the fields of Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Cryogenics and Refrigeration.

1977 Visiting Research Fellow (Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer), Lehrstul A fur Thermodynamics (Prof. Grigull and Prof. Straub), Technical University Munich, Germany. Research in the field of heat and mass transfer, boundary layers formation in a cryogenic domain.

1973-1977 Research Assistant (Refrigeration, Cryogenics, Heat Transfer) and Assistant (a full time research position) Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. Research in cryogenics and refrigeration processes (design).