Dr. N.K. Anand, executive associate dean in the Texas A&M University College of Engineering, was awarded the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ (ASME) James Harry Potter Gold Medal. The formal presentation of the award will take place during the ASME 2020 Power Conference in August.
Anand, who is also associate director of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), a Regents Professor and the James M. and Ada Sutton Forsyth Professor in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, received the award “for outstanding contributions as a teacher of thermodynamics and related topics, and as a researcher who has advanced the state-of-the-art design of alternate refrigerant condensers, cooling strategies for electronic packages and aerosol transport lines.”
“I am honored and humbled by this recognition. I thank my family, teachers, mentors and colleagues for their continued support and inspiration,” Anand said.
Anand's research focuses on the development and application of computational techniques to study turbulent flows and particle transport in nuclear power applications. His research has been recognized through several honors and awards, most recently having received a University Level Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award for Administration from The Association of Former Students at Texas A&M. Other honors include being inducted into the Kansas State University Engineering Hall of Fame, receiving an Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, and being named a Distinguished Alumni and TEES Fellow.
Anand was also named a fellow of ASME, which has 120,000 members and is the oldest professional engineering society in the world. He has served as an associate technical editor of the association’s Journal of Heat Transfer and currently serves as a member of the editorial board of Numerical Heat Transfer.
The James Harry Potter Gold Medal was established in 1980 in honor of James H. Potter. It recognizes eminent achievement or distinguished service in the science of thermodynamics and its application in mechanical engineering.