Dr. Arden Moore: Research Is Education

Dr. Arden Moore, assistant professor of mechanical and nanosystems engineering, has earned a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award.

For the CAREER project, Dr. Moore will develop an innovative approach to pool boiling experimentation that he hopes will provide a better understanding of the underlying physical processes. Due to the importance of physical processes in modern technology, this research could have a global impact, including lower emissions at power plants and ultra-high efficiency at data centers.

In coordination with Dr. Moore’s Multiscale Energy Transport and Materials Laboratory, this CAREER project will also support learning and outreach initiatives for K-12 and undergraduate students. These initiatives will provide educators with insight into how students best learn about the thermal sciences, improving student success and increasing participation in science, technology, engineering and math disciplines.

Initiatives will include hands-on activities that build on the “thermal intuition” that students gain through everyday interactions with heat. Through these initiatives, students will compare thermal transport in heat pipes to transport in solid copper rods, work with infrared thermometry and thermal imaging, make experimental confirmation and observing ideal gas behavior and observe and measure convective thermal transport from heat sinks and finned surfaces.