Director

Dr. C. Y. Wang

Co-Director

Dr. Stefan Thynell

Associate Director

Dr. Matthew M. Mench

Staff Assistant 

Dawn Fisher
dfisher@engr.psu.edu
Phone: 865-6605

Affiliated Faculty and Their Research Interests 

Dr. André Boehman, Fuel Science Department
Research: Renewable fuels, fuel reformation.

Dr. Kendra Sharp, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Research: microfluidics, two-phase flows, flow diagnostics, Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)

Dr. Chunshan Song, Fuel Science Department
Research: Fuel processing, catalyst development for desulfurization, autothermal reforming processes.

Dr. Jinchao Xu, Mathematics Department
Research: Computational mathematics, advanced solution algorithms, numerical simulation of batteries and fuel cells

Research Engineer and Research Associates

Dr. Chan Lim
Research: Advanced Membrane Electrode Assembly Design and Manufacture

Dr. Hua Meng
Research: Computational Fuel Cell Dynamics and Parallel Computing Using Beowulf Cluster

Dr. Guoqiang Lu
Research: Micro-direct methanol fuel cells for MPG

Graduate Students

Sukkee Um (Ph.D. Candidate)
Dissertation Work: 3-D Fluid Dynamics and Mass Transport in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
Guoqing Wang (Ph.D. Candidate)
Dissertation Work: Direct Numerical Simulation of Porous Electrodes
Yinghui Pan (Ph.D Candidate) 
Dissertation Work: Integrated Modeling and Experimentation for the Exploration of Advanced Batteries and Fuel Cells 
Joe Scott (M.S. Student) 
Work: Scale-up of Direct-Methanol Fuel cell stacks
Ugur Pasaogullari (Ph.D. Candidate)
Thesis work: Two-phase transport in PEM fuel cells;
Bhatia Krishan (Ph.D. Candidate)
Thesis work: Modeling and Experiment of Micro Direct Methanol Fuel Cells
Wenpeng Liu (Ph.D. Candidate)
Thesis work: Modeling of Direct Methanol Fuel Cells
Henry Chance (M.S. Student) 
Research: Experiment of Micro Direct Methanol Fuel Cells 
Jeff Gonder (M.S. Student) 
Thesis Work: Experimental Study of Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Performance 
Yun Wang (Ph.D. Student) 
Thesis Work: Computational Fluid Dynamic Modeling of Hydrogen PEM Fuel Cell Systems 
Hyunchul Ju (Ph.D. Student) 
Thesis Work: Numerical Fuel Cell System Integration  
 

Undergraduate Students 

John Curry, NSF Undergrad in Research Fellow Work: Experimental Study of Direct and Indirect Methanol Fuel cells
Andrew Hetrick, NSF Undergrad in Research Fellow Work: Experimental Study of Direct Methanol Fuel cells
Nick Klenovich, Undergraduate Research Assistant Work: Experimental Study of Reformed Hydrocarbon Fuel cells

Collaborators 

Dr. Wei-Wei Huang and Dave Radman (Energizer) 
Dr. K.S. Chen (Sandia, Multiphase Transport Processes) 
Prof. John Weidner (Univ of South Carolina) 
Dr. R. Jungst (Sandia, Power Sources Dept.) 
Paul Timmerman (JPL) 
Dr. B.Y. Liaw (Hawaii Natural Energy Institute) 
Professor Ping Cheng (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) 
Professor C. Beckermann (Univ of Iowa) 
Henry de Groh (NASA-Lewis Research Center)