Richard J. Goldstein, Ph.D.

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Richard Goldstein received his BME degree from Cornell University, and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Physics, and a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He served as 1st lieutenant in the US Army, worked as an engineer for Union Carbide Corporation and Lockheed Corporation, and was an Assistant Professor in the Engineering division at Brown University. Following a year as a NATO fellow at the University of Paris he returned to the University of Minnesota, where he is now Regents and James J. Ryan Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Goldstein is active in research on buoyancy-driven flows, separated flows, jet impingement, and cooling of gas turbine components. He developed optical and other experimental techniques including laser interferometry and laser-Doppler velocimetry for study of fluid mechanics and convection heat/mass transfer. His work on electrochemical and other mass transfer systems have provided precision measurements in a number of forced and natural convection flows. At the University of Minnesota, as ME Department Head from 1977-1997, he directed the development of an outstanding teaching, research, and service oriented mechanical engineering program with excellent faculty, students, and staff. Dr. Goldstein is a member of Pi Tau Sigma, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, the Minnesota Academy of Sciences, the American Physical Society (Fellow), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Honorary Member), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow), the American Society for Engineering Education (Fellow) and other technical societies. He is on the editorial advisory boards of a number of engineering journals. He served as President of ASME International in 1996-1997. He served as Chair of the ASME Heat Transfer Division. He was elected to two terms as Vice President of ASME and Chair of the Basic Engineering Group Operating Board. He served four years as Senior Vice President of ASME, Chair of the Council of Engineering, and served as a Governor of ASME. Dr. Goldstein was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985. He was President of the Assembly for international Heat Transfer Conferences and is currently the President of the international Center for Heat and Mass Transfer. He received honorary doctorates from the Technion, Israel institute of Technology (1994), the Instituto Superior Tecnico of Lisbon Portugal (1996), and the A.V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer institute, Belarus. He was elected a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1999.