Assistant Professor Brandon W. Olson

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering - 2003
University of Utah

B. S., Mechanical Engineering - 1999
Utah State University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Measurement of Material Thermal Properties
• Inverse Thermal Problems
• Microscale Thermal-Fluid Systems

HONORS AND AWARDS (selected)

• Good Teaching Award, University of Oklahoma, 2007
• Tom J. Love Outstanding Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Pi Tau Sigma, University of Oklahoma, 2006
• Junior Faculty Research Award, University of Oklahoma, 2005
• Faculty Senate Development Award, University of Oklahoma, 2005
• Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (NSF fellowship for research and teaching), 2000 - 2003
• Teaching Assistant of the Year; Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Utah, 1999 - 2000

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT

• Heat Transfer
• Design of Thermal-Fluid Systems
• Design Practicum
• Advanced Thermodynamics
• Dynamics and Dynamics II
  (Weber State University, Ogden, UT)
• Thermodynamics I (University of Utah)

GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT

• Principles of Heat Transfer
• Advanced Thermodynamics

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Graham, S., Olson, B., Wong, C., Piekos, E., McConnel, A., Goodson, K., "The effects of processing conditions on the thermal conductivity of polycrystalline silicon films", Proceedings of IMECE 2003 International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, Nov. 16-21, 2003.
• Olson, B.W., Chen, K., "Microstructure defect detection using thermal response", Design, Test, Integration and Packaging of MEMS/MOEMS, Cannes, France, May 2002.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• American Society of Mechanical Engineering
• American Society of Engineering Education