| Yunus A. Çengel is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University
of Nevada, Reno. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering
from North Carolina State University in 1984. His research areas are renewable
energy, desalination, energy analysis, heat transfer enhancement, radiation
heat transfer, and energy conservation. He served as the director of the
Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) at the University of Nevada, Reno, from
1996 to 2000. He has led teams of engineering students to numerous manufacturing
facilities in Northern Nevada and California to perform industrial assessments,
and has prepared energy conservation, waste minimization, and
productivity enhancement reports for them.
Dr. Çengel is the coauthor of the widely adopted textbooks Thermodynamics:
An Engineering Approach (2002), now in its fourth edition, and Fundamentals
of Thermal-Fluid Sciences (2001), both published by McGraw-Hill.
He is also the author of the textbook Introduction to Thermodynamics and
Heat Transfer (1997) published by McGraw-Hill. Some of his textbooks have
been translated to Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Turkish, Italian, and
Greek. Dr. Çengel is the recipient of several outstanding teacher awards, and he received
the ASEE Meriam/Wiley Distinguished Author Award for excellence
in authorship in 1992 and again in 2000. Dr. Çengel is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Nevada, and
is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and
the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). |
2003 McGraw-Hill Higher Education