Adrian Bejan (born September 24, 1948 in
GalaţiGalaţi is a city in Moldavia, eastern Romania, the capital city of Galaţi County on the banks of the Danube, very close to Brăila forming with it the Cantemir metropolitan area...
),
BSBSC is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:Science and technology* Bachelor of Science, an academic degree* Base Station Controller, part of a mobile phone network; see: Base Station subsystem...
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MITThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research...
1971),
MS- Education:* Macon State College* Magister Scientiae, a degree that, before the Bologna process, differed slightly from the Master of Science* Math, Science, and Computers program at Winston Churchill High School...
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MITThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research...
1972),
Ph.D.PHD may refer to:* Parisada Hindu Dharma, an Indonesian reform organization* PHD, a track on The Crystal Method album Tweekend* PHD finger, a protein sequence* PHD Mountain Software, an outdoor clothing and equipment company...
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MITThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research...
, 1975) is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
professor of
mechanical engineeringMechanical Engineering is an engineering discipline that was developed from the application of principles from physics and materials science. Mechanical engineering involves the analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of various systems...
and inventor of the
constructal theoryThe constructal theory puts forth the idea that the generation of design in nature is a physics phenomenon that unites all animate and inanimate systems, and that this phenomenon is covered by the Constructal Law stated by Adrian Bejan in 1996:"For a finite-size system to persist in time , its...
of
generation of design in nature. He is J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor of
Mechanical EngineeringMechanical Engineering is an engineering discipline that was developed from the application of principles from physics and materials science. Mechanical engineering involves the analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of various systems...
at
Duke UniversityDuke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892...
.
Dr. Bejan has published 500 peer-referred articles, 24 books, and is one of the top 100 most widely cited engineering scholars in the world.
Adrian Bejan (born September 24, 1948 in
GalaţiGalaţi is a city in Moldavia, eastern Romania, the capital city of Galaţi County on the banks of the Danube, very close to Brăila forming with it the Cantemir metropolitan area...
),
BSBSC is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:Science and technology* Bachelor of Science, an academic degree* Base Station Controller, part of a mobile phone network; see: Base Station subsystem...
(
MITThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research...
1971),
MS- Education:* Macon State College* Magister Scientiae, a degree that, before the Bologna process, differed slightly from the Master of Science* Math, Science, and Computers program at Winston Churchill High School...
(
MITThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research...
1972),
Ph.D.PHD may refer to:* Parisada Hindu Dharma, an Indonesian reform organization* PHD, a track on The Crystal Method album Tweekend* PHD finger, a protein sequence* PHD Mountain Software, an outdoor clothing and equipment company...
(
MITThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research...
, 1975) is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
professor of
mechanical engineeringMechanical Engineering is an engineering discipline that was developed from the application of principles from physics and materials science. Mechanical engineering involves the analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of various systems...
and inventor of the
constructal theoryThe constructal theory puts forth the idea that the generation of design in nature is a physics phenomenon that unites all animate and inanimate systems, and that this phenomenon is covered by the Constructal Law stated by Adrian Bejan in 1996:"For a finite-size system to persist in time , its...
of
generation of design in nature. He is J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor of
Mechanical EngineeringMechanical Engineering is an engineering discipline that was developed from the application of principles from physics and materials science. Mechanical engineering involves the analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of various systems...
at
Duke UniversityDuke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892...
.
Dr. Bejan has published 500 peer-referred articles, 24 books, and is one of the top 100 most widely cited engineering scholars in the world. Adrian Bejan pioneered numerous original methods in science, such as the constructal law of design in nature, entropy generation minimization, scale analysis of convection, heatlines and masslines, transition to turbulence, and designed porous media.
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