International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 52 (2009) 5283–5284

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In Celebration

Professor Yogesh Jaluria on his 60th birthday

Professor Yogesh Jaluria celebrates his 60th birthday this year.
He is a well-respected contributor to the heat transfer community,
not only because of his technical expertise but also because of hiswillingness to serve the community in a variety of functions, to aid
colleagues and students whenever asked, and to be a mentor tocountless individuals. He has successfully balanced career andfamily, all the while maintaining a pleasant, cheerful demeanor
and being a gentleman in his interactions with one and all.
Yogesh Jaluria is currently Board of Governors Professor andChairman of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and recentlyserved as Interim Dean of the School of Engineering. He received
his B.S. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India,
in 1970, standing ﬁrst in the graduating class. He obtained his M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1972 and 1974, respectively. He worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Princeton, during 1974 to 1976 and at the Indian Instituteof Technology, Kanpur, India, during 1976 to 1980, before joining
Rutgers University in September 1980. While on the faculty at IIT
Kanpur he introduced new elective heat transfer courses dealing
with contemporary applications such as materials processing, solar
energy utilization, environmental transport processes, and electronics cooling. He also established research activities on these
topics, and strongly encouraged the participation of undergraduate
students as research assistants. For many, this early exposure tohands on experiments and numerical modeling related to exciting
topics in heat transfer motivated graduate education and lifelong
careers in the ﬁeld.

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Professor Jaluria has carried out research in several diverse
areas, particularly natural and mixed convection heat transfer,enclosure ﬁres, thermal processing of materials including glass,metals, polymers and food, environmental transport processes, design of thermal systems, computational heat transfer and energy
systems. His work in the USA has been extensively supported byfederal agencies, such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, by the State of New Jersey and by industry.
In India, he was supported by the Council of Scientiﬁc and Industrial Research, the Department of Science and Technology, Steel
Authority of India and by industry. He has also interacted with several industries and research centers in these research areas.
Although Professor Jaluria has done extensive research in numerical/computational heat transfer, the hallmark of his research philosophy has been the emphasis on the physics of the problem
and not getting carried away by the numerical aspects.
Professor Jaluria is the author of over 400 technical publications, including over 170 in archival journals and 16 chapters inbooks. He has two patents in materials processing and some of
his computer software has been copyrighted. He is the author ofa graduate level textbook Natural Convection Heat and Mass Transfer(Pergamon Press, 1980) which has been translated in many languages, and an undergraduate textbook Computer Methods for Engineering (Prentice-Hall, 1988; Taylor and Francis, 1996). He is theﬁrst author of a graduate level textbook entitled Computational
Heat Transfer (Hemisphere, 1986) and its greatly expanded and updated second edition (Taylor & Francis, 2003). He is also a coauthor of a graduate textbook entitled Buoyancy-Induced Flowsand Transport (Taylor and Francis, 1988). He is the author of another textbook Design and Optimization of Thermal Systems(McGraw Hill, 1998), as well as its Second Edition (CRC Press,2008) with MATLAB applications. All these books have received
outstanding reviews, and the two books on natural convection
have been translated into Russian. Professor Jaluria is also a co-editor of twelve conference proceedings, one book and two special issues of archival journals.
Professor Jaluria’s honors and awards include the 2007 DonaldQ. Kern Award from the American Society of Chemical Engineers(AIChE) for outstanding work in heat transfer or energy conversion,the 2007 Heat Transfer Division Classic Paper Award from theAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the 2003 Richard Henry Thurston Lecture Award from ASME, the 2002 Max Jakob
Memorial Award from AIChE and ASME for distinguished work inheat transfer, the 2000 Freeman Scholar Award for the application
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ASME, the 1999 Worcester Reed Warner Medal for outstanding
contribution to the permanent literature of engineering fromASME, the 1995 Heat Transfer Memorial Award for Science for signiﬁcant research contributions to the science of heat transfer fromASME, the 1994 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, the 1979 Young Scientist Medal from theIndian National Science Academy, and a Certiﬁcate of Recognition
from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He wasthe Hawkins Memorial Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University in 2006. He has been invited as a Distinguished Lecturer to NATO Advanced Study Institutes, as Research Leader to an
NSF workshop, as speaker to a Department of Energy sponsoredworkshop on solar ponds, as panelist to national conferences, as invited, keynote or plenary speaker to over 20 international conferences, and as seminar speaker to many universities and researchestablishments. In addition to his numerous research achievements, Professor Jaluria is extremely mindful of his role as an educator. Through his guidance of 25 Doctoral and 30 Master’s theses
and the research of 13 Post-Doctoral Fellows, he continually places
his student’s welfare ahead of the research. This hallmark has left
deep and long-lasting positive impressions on his students in areas
beyond scientiﬁc research, particularly when it comes to knowing
how to choose among conﬂicting priorities.
Professor Jaluria is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, an Associate Fellow of the American Institute ofAeronautics and Astronautics, and a Member of the Combustion
Institute and of the American Physical Society. He has been active
as Committee Chairman, Program Chairman and Conference Chairman, within ASME. He served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Heat Transfer Division from 1998 to 2004, serving as
Chair of the Division during 2002 to 2003. He is currently the Editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer. He has also served as anEditor for Computational Mechanics, an international journal published by Springer International, and as an Associate Editor for
the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer. He is currently a member ofthe Editorial Advisory Boards for Numerical Heat Transfer, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, and International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. He has served on the Editorial
Boards of several other journals, book series and internationalconferences.
The scholarly citations highlighted above reﬂect Professor Jaluria’s scholastic accomplishments in research and his untiring andunselﬁsh service to the world-wide thermal sciences and engineering community. His all-encompassing prestigious awards received
clearly point to a giant unparalleled in our community. At a relatively young age of 60, his stellar accomplishments further illustrate that it is possible to reach such a high plateau of esteem, as
a new benchmark, for the future bright and young members of
our community to aspire upon. He is also well known in our community to be a person of great integrity and foresight. He is a natural leader in the pursuit of new technological and organizational

ideas, by tirelessly working with many for the advancement of ourworld-wide community in thermal sciences and engineering. His
generosity to give time to others to advance new ideas and resolve
controversial issues has won him many friends, both here andabroad. He treats many of us as his friends, and all of us on a multitude of occasions have received his personal support and help.
Personally, Professor Jaluria has a tremendous fascination forhistory, philosophy, religion and culture, particularly ancient civilizations. He has spent hours poring over books and articles andis often seen immersed in discussions with friends and scholars
on all kinds of topics in these areas. He also has great passion fortraveling, a love he inherited from his parents who took the family
to the far edges of India before he graduated high school. As a professor, he has had the pleasure of seeing the world and learning
about different cultures ﬁrst hand, with India, USA, Italy and France
being his top choices for travel. Professor Jaluria and his wife,
Anuradha, enjoy spending time with their children Pratik, Aseem,Ankur, Leslie (Pratik’s wife), and their grandson, Vyan.
On behalf of his former students, colleagues, and friends fromaround the world, including the editors of this journal, we wish
him a very happy 60th birthday and thank him for his technicalcontributions, visionary leadership, outstanding service, and forbeing a friend to many. Professor Jaluria is a great asset to our community, and we wish him the very best on his 60th birthday andcontinued unselﬁsh leadership for years to come. Good health,happiness and prosperity to Professor Yogesh Jaluria and hisfamily!
Yildiz Bayazitoglu
Van P. Carey
Wilson K. S. Chiu
Srinivas Garimella
Mahesh Gupta
Michael K. Jensen
Yogendra Joshi
Mukund V. Karwe
Steven H.-K. Lee
W. J. Minkowycz
Jayathi Y. Murthy
G. P. ‘‘Bud” Peterson
Vishwanath Prasad
Kwang-Tzu Yang*

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