Dr. Yi-Chien Wu is presently on the senior engineering staff at JPL. Dr. Wu¹s primary areas of academic interest are fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, and applied mathematics. He earned his BS Degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University, MS Degree in Mechanical Engineering from N. C. State University at Raleigh, and his Ph D in Engineering from UCLA. Dr. Wu has been with JPL since 1969. His main areas of work at JPL have been the thermal control of spacecraft and science instruments, and heat transfer and energy conversion related research and development work, as well as advanced mission design activities. He played major roles such as cognizant thermal engineer, technical lead and task manager in many of JPL projects and missions. Notable among them are the Viking mission of the 1970s, the solar thermal energy project of the 1970s, the Mars Pathfinder mission of 1997, interplanetary and astronomical missions and EOS instruments at various times. Prior to JPL, Dr. Wu taught and did research in a variety of subjects at several institutions, including N. C. State University, UCLA, Loyola University of Los Angeles, California State University at Los Angeles, and Conductron Corporation. Dr. Wu is a member of the honor societies of Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Xi, and of the professional societies of AIAA, ASHRAE, and ASME.
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