Jamal Yagoobi is a George I. Alden Professor at the

Worcester Polytechnic Institute The Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is a Private university, private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1865, WPI was one of the United States' first engineering and technology universities and now h ...

(WPI), Worcester, Massachusetts. He was named

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

(IEEE) in 2014 ''for contributions to electrohydrodynamics''. Yagoobi obtained BS in mechanical engineering in 1978. He attended

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...

, graduating with MS and Ph.D. in the same field in 1981 and 1984 respectively.

Career and Research

At WPI, Yagoobi teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses, focusing on heat transfer, fluid mechanics, liquid/vapor phase change, thermodynamics, and design of thermal systems. He has active research on enhancing heat transfer and phase change that has been supported by the NSF, NASA, AFOSR, SBA, ASHRAE and other companies.

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* 1950s births Living people Iranian mechanical engineers Sharif University of Technology alumni Grainger College of Engineering alumni Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty Fellows of the IEEE Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{Iran-engineer-stub