Alfred University mechanical engineering students present work at Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, in Washington, DC.

Alfred University engineering student Andrew Cisco presents group paper "Experimental Investigation of Nano-Enhanced-PCM-Based Heat Sinks for Passive Thermal Management of Small Satellites" at the TFEC conference in Washington DC.

A senior design team of Mechanical Engineering students, led and advised by Dr. Mehdi Kabir, Alfred University assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Inamori School of Engineering, made an oral presentation of their research work at the Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (TFEC), held recently at George Washington University, in Washington, DC.

The conference was hosted by the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE) March 9-12, where a capstone team of four Alfred University students, including Andrew Cisco (main presenter), Dominic Mckinney, Billy Moore, and Izaiah Smith, presented research titled "Experimental Investigation of Nano-Enhanced-PCM-Based Heat Sinks for Passive Thermal Management of Small Satellites".

The team had also been awarded funding support earlier by the NASA NY Space Grant Consortium.