Service

Florida State University

Faculty Advisor, Colombian Student Association (COLSA), Fall 2005-2006.

Mentor and Member. Engineers Without Borders (EWB) - Student chapter. Peru - Amazonia project 2008. (Faculty Advisor, Dr. T. Abichou).

Faculty Advisor SHPE- Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, 2008-2009.

College of Engineering

Committee Member, Graduate Seminar Committee, 2005-2006.

Fundamentals of Engineering Exam (FE), fluid mechanics review section, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004-2005.

Faculty Advisor, Industry Day Design Competition, 2004.

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Academic Advisor for 12-15 undergraduate students each year.

ABET review, Thermal Fluids Area, 2008-2009.

Area Coordinator, Thermal Fluids, Fall 2006-present.

Faculty Search Committee, Fall 2009.

Committee Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Fall 2006-present

Secretary of the Faculty, Fall 2006-present.

Coordinator, Thermal-Fluids Area Preliminary Examination. 2005

Committee Member, BS-MS Program, 2006.

Graduate Seminar Coordinator. 2003-2006

Math Committee. Ph.D. Qualifying Exam, 2003-present

Thermal-Fluids Committee. Ph.D. Qualifying Exam, 2003-present

Center of Advanced Power Systems

Education Committee, Center for Advanced Power System, 2004

The Profession

Editorial Board Memberships

Editorial board, JP Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2006-2009.

Associate Technical Editor, Thermal Engineering, Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, since 2005.

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for The Open Energy and Fuels Journal, since 2007.

Co-Chairman. Sessions on Magnetic Materials and Electromagnetic Field, 10th International Conference on Optimization and Electronic Equipment, OPTIM, Brasov, Romania, May 2006.

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Thermal Engineering, Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, 2004-2005.

Reviewer for Grant Applications

National Science Foundation (NSF), PFI review panel 2004.
The Georgian National Science Foundation, since 2008.

Reviewer for Refereed Journals

Applied Energy, since 2008
Chemical Engineering Science, since 2008
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, since 2008
Numerical Heat Transfer, since 2008
Nanotechnology, since 2007
Energy, The International Journal, since 2006
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, since 2006
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, since 2005.
Thermal Engineering (RETERM), since 2004
Medical Physics, since 2004
Journal of Porous Media, since 2004
ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, since 2004.
Journal of Applied Physics, since 2004
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, since 2003

Reviewer for refereed Conferences:

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exhibition, 2008.
ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exhibition, 2005.
Brazilian Congress of Mechanical Engineering, COBEM 2005.
2nd International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, Rochester, July 2004.

Service to Professional Associations:

South Africa’s National Research Foundation, since 2008.

The Community

Service to the Community

Volunteer. 2008. Bureau of Archaeological Research, Wakulla Project, National Geographic Society and Smithsonian.

Volunteer, 2006-present. YMCA Scuba Leadership Program.

Volunteer. 2007. St. Francis Wildlife Association.