Dr. Ali Ogut is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Environmental Energy Technologies, Inc., a Rochester, NY company and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park. His expertise is in thermo-fluids, energy conservation, environmental engineering, and computational flow analysis. Dr. Ogut is the principal researcher on energy efficiency and environment in the ME Department. He has considerable funded-project experience. At the present time, he is the PI of two New York State Energy Research and Development Authority projects. He is the developer and patent holder of a novel diesel engine particulate trap and UV water disinfection systems funded by NYSERDA. Dr. Ogut was also the PI of a project from NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio (1990-1996). He spent two summers (1989 and 1990) as a NASA Fellow at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio with the Space Propulsion Technology Branch. He is an active member of ASME Fluids Engineering Division (FED). He currently serves as the senior member of FED and served as the Division Chair and the Conference Chair of the 2003 FED Summer Meeting, held jointly with the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is also a member of ASEE, SAE and AIChE professional organizations. |