TIANLI FENG portrait
  • Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Professional Service

  • Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Conference. Role: Session Chair. Chair sessions. 04/16/2023 - present
  • Materials Research Letters (Impact Factor of 8.5). Role: Advisor . Advisor of Article Collection: Micro and Nanoscale Thermal Transport in Materials. 02/01/2023 - 12/31/2023
  • The 47th International Conference and expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC2023). Role: Session Chair . Chair sessions. 01/23/2023 - present
  • ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) conference. Role: Organizer and Session Chair . Organize and chair sessions. 11/01/2022 - present
  • ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference (SHTC) 2022. Role: Organizer. Organize the conference . 07/11/2022 - present
  • ASME HTD K-9 Nanoscale Thermal Transport. Role: Committee. Meetings, organize sessions, section chairs, review papers, assign reviewers to papers. 11/01/2021 - present
  • ES Energy & Environment. Role: Early-Career Editorial board member. Meetings and handling papers. 10/01/2021 - present
  • Energy and Environment Focus, American Scientific Publisher. Role: Editorial board member. Editorial board member. 09/01/2021 - present

Honors & Awards

  • CAREER AWARD. NSF, 02/01/2024
  • 2023 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), 06/01/2023
  • 2023 Brillouin Medal. International Phononics Society (IPS), 06/01/2023

Internal Service

  • Award Committee. member, 07/01/2023 - 06/30/2024. Department service.
  • The senior students mentored by Dr. Rao, Dr. Shiri, and Dr. Feng won the 2023 IEEE/EPS ASME K16 Student Heat Sink Design Challenge! Congratulations, Xander Lehnardt, Chandler Elliott, Preston Bodily, Taylor Cox, and Zachary Julien! This is a part of the capstone course. Mentor, 09/01/2022 - 06/01/2023. Department service.
  • Seminar committee. member, 07/01/2022 - 06/30/2023. Department service.

Outreach

  • Showed high school students our lab and our research in the Hi-GEAR (Girls Engineering Abilities Realized) summer camp. 06/01/2023 - present
  • Gave three lectures (each 80 mins) to high school students on the topic of “Control The Heat” in the Decker Lake Youth Center, West Valley City, Utah. 02/09/2023 - present
  • Gave three talks (each 50 mins) on Engineering Day to the high school students in Utah to help them understand what research in engineering looks like. The students were well engaged. 11/02/2022 - present
  • Give talks at BYU to help recruit students. 11/01/2021 - 11/01/2021
  • Engineering Day! Prof. Feng gave two lecture talks to the high school students in Utah to help them understand what the research in engineering looks like. 11/01/2021 - 11/01/2021
  • K-12 Education! Prof. Feng gave a lecture on the topic of “Control The Heat” to the high school students at the Millcreek Youth Center, Ogden, Utah. 10/01/2021 - 10/01/2021

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