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Siavash H. Sohrab is an Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from the University of California at San Diego, obtained in 1981, and has a strong academic background with an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from San Jose State University and a B.S. from the University of California at Davis. His research focuses on statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics, hydrodynamic models, and their implications in various fields such as cosmology and electrodynamics. Apart from his research, he has received recognition for his work, including a Paper Award from the Central States Section Meeting of the Combustion Institute in 1998. He has served as an editor for several academic journals, emphasizing his dedication to professional service within the academic community. His teaching philosophy stresses the importance of deep intuitive understanding and connections between empirical experiences and abstract concepts in physics, particularly in his courses on combustion, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and statistical mechanics. He has published multiple significant papers, including work on invariant Boltzmann statistical mechanics and its implications in various physical theories, contributing to ongoing discussions in the fields of thermodynamics and quantum theories.
Northwestern University • Evanston, IL
Teaching and research in mechanical engineering with focus on combustion, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics.
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