The University of Texas-Pan American
 
Manufacturing Engineering

FACULTY

John R. Lloyd

Reserach Professor and Director


UTPA Rapid Response Manufacturing Center
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Mechanical and Astronautical Engineering Naval Postgraduate School

Email: lloydjr@utpa.edu
    Phone: (956) 318-8955    

 

Education

B.S.       Mechanical Engineering            U. Minnesota                     1964  

M.S.      Mechanical Engineering            U. Minnesota                      1966

Ph.D.     Mechanical Engineering            U. Minnesota                             1971

 
Experience

Employment details:

Research Professor, Director, UTPA Rapid Response Manufacturing Center 2008-present

Visiting Professor, 1990, Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2007-present

Areas of research: Nanotechnology, Heat Transfer, Distributed Team Function

Areas of teaching: Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer

Other Related Work Experience

  • June 1966 to September 1967 - Development Engineer, The Procter and Gamble Company, Cincinnati , Ohio.
  • September 1970 to January 1984 - Assistant Professor, September 1970 - September 1974,  Associate Professor, September 1974 - September 1977,  Professor, September 1977 - January 1984 Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
  • Michigan State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2555 Engineering Building, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, October 1983 to 1992 -Professor and Chairperson, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • July 1990 to Present -University Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical   Engineering, Michigan State University, 2555 Engineering Building, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
  • October 1994 to present - Guest Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  • July 1997 to December 2000 - Director, The Institute for Global Engineering Education, College of Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
  • January 2003 – May 2003, Visiting Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley , California
  • January 2007 to Present – Visiting Distinguished Professor, Naval PostgraduateSchool, Mechanical and Astronautical Engineering, 333 Watkins Hall, 700 Dyer Road , Monterey , CA
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  • January 2008 to Present – Research Professor of Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering Department, DirectorRapidResponseManufacturingCenter , The University of Texas Pan American , Edinburg , TX   78539
 
Patents
  • C.J. Radcliffe and J.R. Lloyd, "Feedback Control of Electrorheological Fluid Response," Patent No. 5,493,127, Issued Feb. 20, 1996.
  • J.R. Lloyd, T. Grotjohn, A. Weber, F. Rosenbaum, G. Goodall, “Implantable Micro-Scale Pressure Sensor System for Glaucoma Monitoring and Management,” Patent #6,890,300, Issued 05/10/05.
  • C.J. Radcliffe and J.R. Lloyd, “A Liquid Nitrogen Refrigeration System”, disclosure filed October 11, 2005
  • J.R. Lloyd and C.J. Radcliffe, “Bio-tissue Long Term Storage Container”, disclosure #06-115 filed March 15, 2006
 

 

Publicacions (last six years)

  1. N. Aitcheson, D. Fickes and J.R. Lloyd, (2002), “Fundamental Effects of Boundary Structure on Nano-Scale Conductive Heat Transfer”, ASME IMECE, November 2002
  2. J.B. Hargrove, J.R. Lloyd, and C.J. Radcliffe, “Radiation Heat Transfer in Electrorheological Fluids” 2003, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, December, Vol. 125, No. 6, pp. 1058-1064.
  3. K.A. David and J.R. Lloyd, 2003, “Learning and Communication about Collaboration in Dispersed Teams,” Chapter 20 – The Collaborative Work Systems Fieldbook: Strategies, Tools, and Techniques, ed. M.B. Beyerlein, C. McGhee, G.D. Klein, J.E. Nemiro, L. Broedling, Jossey-Bass/Pfiefer A Wiley imprint, ISBN: 0-7879-6375-5, pp. 349-374.
  4. J.R. Lloyd, 2004,  “Discussion of Thermal Energy Transport Across Material Interfaces: A Molecular Perspective”, ProceedingsEuropeanAcademyof Sciences NANOMAT Conference.
  5. J..R. Lloyd, T.J. Hinds, K.A. David, M.J. Chung, M.A. Gonzalez, D. Timmer, 2004, “INTEnD: A Dispersed Design Team Approach for the Globalization of Engineering Education” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition”, Curriculum Award Paper.
  6. S.Ngai, J.R. Lloyd, A.I. Leontiev, S.P. Malyshenko, 2004, “Creation of Nano-Scaled Surface Structure for the Enhancement of Boiling Heat Transfer”, Proceedings ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE2004-61295, 9pgs.
  7. K.Y. Xu and J.R. Lloyd, 2005, “Pool Boiling of FC-72: A Comparison of two Thin Porous Coatings on Heat Transfer Enhancement”, Proceedings ASME IMECE 2005-81230, 9pgs. (Nominated for Best Paper Award)
  8. K.A. David, J..R. Lloyd, T.J. Hinds, 2005, “Power and Communication: Solving Power Problems for Collaboration in Globally Distributed Engineering design Teams”, ASME IMECE-80060.
  9. W. Kim, M.J. Chung, J.R. Lloyd, 2006, “Automated Outsourcing Partnership Management”, Book Chapter of CSCW 2005, LCNS 3865, pp.184-193, 2006
  10. Y. Zhang, R.J. Enbody, and J.R. Lloyd, Proactive, Content-Aware, Sensitive Data Protection Framework for Enterprises, 2006, Proceedings International Conference on Communication, Network and Information Security, October 9-11, 2006, 7 pgs.
  11. J.R. Lloyd, M.O. Hayes-Michel, C.J. Radcliffe, 2007,  “Internal Organizational Measurement for Control of  Magnetorheological Fluid Properties”, ASME Trans, Jour Fluids Eng, April 2007
  12. T.F. Luo and J.R. Lloyd, 2007, “Ab-initio Molecular Dynamics Study of Nano-scale Thermal Energy Transport”, ASME 2nd Energy Nanotechonolgy International Conference, ENIC 2007-45033, 9 pgs.  
 

Scientific and Professional Society Memberships

 

Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1971-present.  
Honors and Awards

1978 ASME Melville Medal for best paper in the field of Mechanical Engineering.

1986 Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, Society of Automotive Engineers.

1986 Election to Fellow of ASME.    

1990 University Distinguished Professor, MichiganStateUniversity

1995 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award

2000 Doctor of Technical Science Honorus Causa, RussianAcademyof Sciences

2002 Elected to Member, EuropeanAcademyof Sciences

2004 ASME Curriculum Innovation Award, Honorable Mention

2007 AT&T Instructional Technology Award 

 

 

Profesional Service

Advisory Editor, Journal of Heat Transfer Research, 1997-present

International Advisory Board, Thermophysics and Aeromechanics, International Academic Publishing Company, 1999 – present.

Senior Vice-President of Engineering, ASME International, November 1998- 2002.

Governor, ASME International, June 2002-June 2005.

Member, Executive Committee of Int.Center Heat and Mass Transfer , Turkey, 2002- 2006.

Member, planning committee, Minority Serving Institutions Research Partnerships Conf. 2006

Member,Planning group 14th Intl Heat Transfer Conference, Aug 2010, WashingtonDC

Member, ASME Board on Research and Technology Development, Nov. 2006 – present.

Member, Board of Directors, ASME Nanotechnology Institute, November 2006-present

Professional Development Activities in Last Five Years

Short Course: “Success Factors for Engineering Design Projects the Involve Geographically Dispersed Teams”, 2004 International Appliance Technical Conference, Lexington , KY

 

 

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