James Sutherland portrait
  • Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
  • Associate Chair, Chemical Engineering
  • Professor, Chemical Engineering
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Professional Service

  • Combustion & Flame. Role: reviewer. reviewed three manuscripts. 01/2023 - 12/2023
  • Computer Physics Commnunications. Review manuscripts. 02/01/2021 - 08/06/2021
  • Fuel, Combustion & Flame, MethodsX, Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS), Journal of Fluid Mechanics. journal peer reviews. 01/2018 - 12/2018
  • Western States Section of the Combustion Institute. Board member. 05/2015 - present
  • SIAM. Role: Minisymposium organizer. SIAM Parallel processing conference, 2014. “Productivity, Portability, and Scalability through Domain-Specific Languages”. 07/2013 - 02/2014
  • SIAM. Role: Organizer. Organizer of minisymposium: "Validation and Uncertainty Quantification in Highly Complex Systems". 11/2010 - 05/2011
  • Combustion Institute. Role: Meeting Chair & Organizer. Meeting chair: US Joint Sections of the Combustion Institute (~400 national attendees). 04/2010 - 06/2013
  • SIAM. Role: co-organizer. Organizer of minisymposium: "Software Design Patterns for Addressing Complexity in Large Scale Multiphysics Applications". 08/2009 - 03/2010

Honors & Awards

  • Distinguished Paper in the Numerical Combustion Colloquium for the 39th International Symposium on Combustion. Combustion Institute, 01/2023
  • Honorary Board Member. Western States Section of Combustion Institute, 08/2021
  • College of Engineering Outstanding Teacher award. University of Utah College of Engineering, 08/2017
  • Department of Chemical Engineering Outstanding Faculty award. Presented by the senior class to a faculty member annually. University of Utah Department of Chemical Engineering, 04/2017

Internal Service

  • Center for Parallel Computing at Utah. PI, 08/2010 - present. University service.
  • College Council. member, 08/2010 - 10/2013. College service.
  • Institute for Clean & Secure Energy internal publication editor. editor, 11/2009 - 11/2012. University service.
  • Graduate Committee. member, 08/2007 - present. Department service.

Outreach

  • Science fair judge. 04/2010 - 04/2012

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