Greg Walker, associate professor of mechanical engineering, has been selected to be a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for “exceptional engineering achievements and contributions to the engineering profession.” Walker is one of approximately 3,000 fellows chosen from among more than 130,000 ASME members.
Associate Professor Greg Walker
Cited by the ASME, Walker’s significant contributions include the creation of new lines of scientific inquiry that has changed the way many researchers think about energy conversion materials. His pioneering work in thermal rectification initiated a new direction in phonon engineering that has implications to cooling advanced microelectronic devices.
Walker is an expert on fabricating, characterizing, and using thermographic phosphors to evaluate thermal performance in damaging environments such as combustion chambers and turbine blades.