Research Expertise

•	Heat Transfer Enhancement
•	Film Cooling
•	Experimental Heat Transfer
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Education

•	Ph.D.	:	Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2006
•	M.S.	:	Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2003
•	B.S.	:	Engineering with Professional Concentration in Mechanical Engineering, Arkansas State University, 2001
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Courses Taught  (since 2006)

•	AME 413a/b	:	Mechanical Engineering Design [supervised projects]
•	AME 432	:	Heat Transfer
•	AME 532	:	Convective Transport Phenomena
•	ENGR 498a/b	:	Cross-Disciplinary Design [supervised projects]
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Employment

•	8/06-date	:	Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Arizona: Assistant Professor
•	5/07-8/07	:	Honeywell International, Engines, Systems and Services, Phoenix, Arizona: Consultant, Advanced Technology
•	5/03-8/03	:	Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford, Connecticut: UTSR Industrial Fellow [University Turbine Systems Research (DOE-UTSR) program]
•	1998-2001	:	ALCOA, Inc., Bauxite, Arkansas: Mechanical Engineering Intern (summers)
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Honors and Awards

•	Outstanding Faculty Member, voted by graduating class: December 2006, May 2007
•	Warren M. Rohsenow Prize for Best Presentation Award, ASME K-14 Committee on Gas Turbine Heat Transfer (for paper entitled "Assessment of Steady State PSP, TSP, and IR Measurement Techniques for Flat Plate Film Cooling" at 2005 Summer Heat Transfer Conference), June 6, 2006
•	Hervey-Kozik Graduate Fellow, 2003-04
•	Texas A&M University Mechanical Engineering Fellow, 2001-02
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Professional Societies

•	ASME	:	American Society of Mechanical Engineers
•	ASME	:	ASME K-14 Gas Turbine Heat Transfer Committee
•	AIAA	:	American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
•	ASEE	:	American Society for Engineering Education
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Publications  (since 2006)

•	Wright, L. M., Blake, S., Rhee, D. H., and Han, J. C., Effect of Upstream Wake with Vortex on Turbine Blade Platform Film Cooling and Simulated Stator-Rotor Purge Flow, ASME J. Turbomachinery [accepted].
•	Wright, L. M., Blake, S., and Han, J. C., Effectiveness Distributions on Turbine Blade Cascade Platforms through Simulated Stator-Rotor Seals, AIAA J. Thermophys. Heat Trans. [accepted].
•	Wright, L. M., Blake, S., and Han, J. C., Film Cooling Effectiveness Distributions on a Turbine Blade Cascade Platform with Stator-Rotor Purge and Discrete Film Holes Flows, ASME J. Turbomachinery [accepted].
•	Liu, Y. H., Wright, L. M., Fu, W. L., and Han, J. C., Rib Spacing Effect on Heat Transfer and Pressure Loss in a Rotating Two-Pass Rectangular Channel (AR=1:2) with 45-Degree Angled Ribs, AIAA J. Thermophys. Heat Trans. [accepted].
•	Wright, L. M., Gao, Z., Yang, H., and Han, J. C., Film Cooling Effectiveness Distribution on a Gas Turbine Blade Platform with Inclined Slot Leakage and Discrete Film Hole Flows, ASME J. Heat Transf. [in press].
•	Wright, L. M., Liu, Y. H., Han, J. C., and Chopra, S., Heat Transfer in Trailing Edge, Wedge-Shaped Cooling Channels under High Rotation Numbers, Paper GT2007-27093, Proceedings of the 2007 Turbo Expo-Power for Land, Sea & Air, Montreal, Canada, May 14-17, 2007 [CD].
•	Wright, L. M., Blake, S., Rhee, D. H., and Han, J. C., Effect of Upstream Wake with Vortex on Turbine Blade Platform Film Cooling and Simulated Stator-Rotor Purge Flow, Paper GT2007-27092, Proceedings of the 2007 Turbo Expo-Power for Land, Sea & Air, Montreal, Canada, May 14-17, 2007 [CD].
•	Han, J. C. and Wright, L. M., Enhanced Internal Cooling of Turbine Blades and Vanes, The Gas Turbine Handbook, DOE/NETL-2006/1230, 2006.
•	Wright, L. M., Blake, S., and Han, J. C., Film Cooling Effectiveness Distributions on a Turbine Blade Cascade Platform with Stator-Rotor Purge and Discrete Film Hole Flow, Paper IMECE 2006-15092, Proceedings of the 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, November 5-10, 2006 [CD].
•	Wright, L. M., Blake, S., and Han, J. C., Effectiveness Distributions on Turbine Blade Cascade Platforms through Simulated Stator-Rotor Seals, Paper AIAA-2006-3402, Proceedings of the 9th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, San Francisco, California, June 5-8, 2006 [CD].
•	Wright, L. M., Gao, Z., Yang, H., and Han, J. C., Film Cooling Effectiveness Distribution on a Gas Turbine Blade Platform with Inclined Slot Leakage and Discrete Film Hole Flows, Paper GT 2006-90375, Proceedings of the 2006 Turbo Expo-Power for Land, Sea & Air, Barcelona, Spain, May 8-11, 2006 [CD].
•	Liu, Y. H., Wright, L. M., Fu, W. L., and Han, J. C., Rib Spacing Effect on Heat Transfer and Pressure Loss in a Rotating Two-Pass Rectangular Channel (AR=1:2) with 45-Degree Angled Ribs, Paper GT 2006-90368, Proceedings of the 2006 Turbo Expo-Power for Land, Sea & Air, Barcelona, Spain, May 8-11, 2006 [CD].
•	Gao, Z., Yang, H., Wright, L. M., and Han, J. C., Conjugate Prediction of Leading Edge Film Cooling and Heat Transfer, Paper ISROMAC 11-2006-45, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Transport Phenomena and Dynamics of Rotating Machinery (ISROMAC-11), Honolulu, Hawaii, February 25-March 2, 2006 [CD].
•	Fu, W .L., Wright, L. M., and Han, J. C., Heat Transfer in Two-Pass Rotating Rectangular Channels (AR = 2:1) with Discrete Ribs, AIAA J. of Thermophys. Heat Transfer 20:569-582, 2006.
•	Fu, W. L., Wright, L. M., and Han, J. C., Rotational Buoyancy Effects on Heat Transfer in Five Different Aspect-Ratio Rectangular Channels with Smooth Walls and 45-Degree Ribbed Walls, ASME J. Heat Transf. 128:1130-1141, 2006.
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