The Department of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics is pleased to welcome incoming Assistant Professor Xuanjie Wang.
Dr. Wang’s research interests include energy conservation, transport, and storage technologies. His lab will create new materials, devices, and environmentally sustainable systems to address the growing demand for energy and water. His research uses principles and tools in heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, micro/nanotechnology, and computational modeling.
Dr. Wang joins a thriving interdisciplinary energy research community at Lehigh that includes the Energy Research Center, the Atlantic Marine Energy Center, and fusion research.
MEM Department Chair Arindam Banerjee describes Wang’s research plans as a perfect complement to the ongoing work of other faculty in the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science. “Dr. Wang brings his expertise in energy systems with a focus on energy storage, which fills a critical need in the Rossin College. He will be a valuable asset to several research teams at Lehigh’s Institute for Cyber Physical Infrastructure and Energy and in MEM. In addition, Xuanjie plans to teach courses in advanced thermodynamics and related topics that will add to our graduate and undergraduate curriculum.”
Before joining Lehigh, Dr. Wang was a postdoctoral associate in the Device Research Lab (DRL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he worked on radiative heat transfer for energy applications. He earned his master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His dissertation focused on using nano-engineered surfaces to control optical properties for solar-thermal management.
