Trung Van Nguyen
Professor
4153 Learned Hall
1530 W 15th St
Lawrence, KS 66045
Phone: (785) 864-3938
Fax: (785) 864-4967
E-mail: cptvn@ku.edu
Education
- BS, North Carolina State University, 1981
- MS, Texas A&M University, 1985
- PhD, Texas A&M University, 1988
Work Experience
- Program Director, Energy for Sustainability Program, CBET Division, Engineering Directorate, National Science Foundation, 2007-2009.
- Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1992-1994
- Associate Director, Center for Electrochemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1990-1991
- Senior Process and Product Development Engineer, Duracell, 1989-1990
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Lab, 1988-1989
- Summer Research Intern, GM Research Center, 1985 and 1986
- Process Engineer, DuPont, 1982
Career Most Influential People
- Professor Ralph E. White (MS and PhD Advisor)
- Dr. Hiram Gu (formerly at General Motors Research Lab)
- Dr. Nicholas Vanderborgh (formerly at Los Alamos National Lab)
Recent Honors and Awards
- Fellow of The Electrochemical Society
- Leading Light Award, University of Kansas, April 2012
Research Interests
Fuel cells and batteries and mathematical modeling of electrochemical systems
Current Research Focus:
- Interfacial phenomena at the electrode/membrane and membrane/membrane interfaces,
- Theoretical and experimental studies of two-phase transport in porous electrodes and flow channels of proton exchange membrane fuel cells,
- Heat, gas and water management in proton exchange membrane fuel cells,
- Optimization of the micro-structures the catalyst layers used in PEM fuel cells for two phase flow,
- Development of electrode and membrane assemblies for PEM fuel cells for specific applications,
- Development of large scale electrical energy storage systems for wind and solar ($2.3M from NSF and $1.724M from ARPA-A).
Recent Graduate Students Accomplishments
Wensheng He, PhD
Awarded the H.H. Dow Memorial Student Achievement Award for outstanding graduate research by the IEEE Division of the Electrochemical Society, May 2002; Frank Bowdish Outstanding PhD Research Award from the Chemical & Petroleum Department of the University of Kansas, May 2004; and the Marnie and Bill Argersinger Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation from the University of Kansas, May 2004.
Dilip Natarajan, PhD
Awarded Frank Bowdish Outstanding PhD Research Award from the Chemical & Petroleum Department of the University of Kansas, May 2005; and the Marnie and Bill Argersinger Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation from the University of Kansas, May 2005
Guangyu Lin, PhD
Awarded the Frank Bowdish Outstanding PhD Research Award from the Chemical & Petroleum Department of the University of Kansas, May 2006
Xuhai Wang, PhD
Awarded the Frank Bowdish Outstanding PhD Research Award from the Chemical & Petroleum Department of the University of Kansas, May 2010
Current Research Students
- Venkata Yarlagadda, PhD
- Regis Dowd, PhD
- Zetao (Kyle) Tan, PhD - Visiting student from Bejing Jiao-Tong University, China
- Dr. Jahangir Masud
- Jack Walter, Undergraduate
- Trevor Prater, Undergraduate
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