Assistant Professor 
                                                           

Degrees with fields, institutions and dates

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.
• MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003.
• BS, Mechanical Engineering, Clemson, 2001.

Years service on this faculty, including date of original appointment and dates of advancement in rank.

• Assistant Professor, 2007-present

Other related experience-teaching, industrial

• ASEE Air Force Summer Faculty Fellow, AFRL-RZP, WPAFB, OH, Summer 2008.
• Teaching Fellow - University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, Spring 2007.
• Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant - University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 2001-2007.
• Departmental Honors Research - Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 2000-2001.
• Process Engineer Co-Op - Hoechst-Celanese/Celanese Acetate Corp., Narrows, VA, 1997-1998.

Principal publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

• Hamilton, C., Dymek, S., and Sommers, A., 2008, "A Thermal Model of Friction Stir Welding in Aluminum Alloys, " International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, vol. 48 no 10, pp. 1120-1130.
• Sommers, A.D. and Jacobi, A.M., 2006, “Creating Micro-Scale Surface Topology to Achieve Anisotropic Wettability on an Aluminum Surface,” Journal of Micromechanics & Microengineering, vol. 16 no. 8, pp. 1571-1578.
• Sommers, A.D. and Jacobi, A.M., 2006, “An Exact Solution to Steady Heat Conduction in a Two Dimensional Annulus on a One-Dimensional Fin: Application to Frosted Heat Exchangers with Round Tubes,” Journal of Heat Transfer, vol. 128, pp. 397-404.
• Sommers, A.D. and Jacobi, A.M., 2005, “Air-Side Heat Transfer Enhancement of a Refrigerator Evaporator using Vortex Generation,” International Journal of Refrigeration, vol. 28 no.7, pp. 1006-1017.

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

• Sommers, A.D., and Jacobi, A.M., 2008, "Modeling the Retention of Water Droplets on Topographically-Modified, Micro-Grooved Aluminum," ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Jacksonville, FL, August 10-14, Paper No. HT2008-56440.
• Sommers, A.D., and Jacobi, A.M., 2008, "Calculating the Volume of Water Droplets on Topographically-Modified, Micro-Grooved Aluminum Surfaces," 12th International Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Conference, Purdue, IN, July 14-17, Paper No. 2282.
• Park, Y., Liping, L. Sommers, A.D., Jacobi, A.M., 2008, "Two-Phase Flow Boiling of Refrigerant-Based Nanofluid in a Horizontal Tube," 4th International Conference on Cryogenics and Refrigeration-Proceedings of ICCR'2008, Shanghai, China, April 6-9, Paper No 278.
• Sommers, A.D., Jacobi, A.M., 2007, "Using Anisotropic Micro-Scale Topography to Reduce the Retention of Water on Aluminum," 234th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition, Boston, MA, August 19-23.
• Park, Y., Sommers, A.D., Liu, L., Michna, G.J., Joardar, A., and Jacobi, A.M., 2007, “Nanoparticles to Enhance Evaporative Heat Transfer,” 22nd IIR International Congress of Refrigeration, Beijing, China, August 21-26, Paper No. ICR07-B1-709.
• Sommers, A.D. and Jacobi, A.M., 2006, “Critical Droplet on Micro-Structured, Aluminum, Heat transfer Surfaces,” 13th International Heat Transfer Conference, IHTC-13, Sydney, Australia, August 13-18.
• Xia, Y., Sommers, A.D., and Jacobi, A.M., 2006, “A Numerical Model for Condensate Drops and Bridges Retained on the Air-Side Surface of Heat Exchangers,” 11th International Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Conference, Purdue, IN, July 17-20, Paper No. R039.
• Sommers, A.D. and Jacobi, A.M., 2006, “Wetting Phenomena and Water Retention Modeling on Microstructured, Aluminum Surfaces,” 2nd International Conference on Transport Phenomena in Micro and Nanodevices, Barga, Italy, June 11-15, Paper No. IV-3.
• Sommers, A.D. and Jacobi, A.M., 2004, “Air-Side Heat Transfer Augmentation of a Refrigerator Evaporator using Vortex Generation,” 10th International Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Conference, Purdue, IN, July 12-15, Paper No. R034.
• Sommers, A.D. and Jacobi, A.M., 2003, “Vortex Generation as an Air-Side Heat Transfer Enhancement Method for Refrigeration Applications,” 21st IIR International Congress of Refrigeration, Washington, D.C., August 17-22, Paper No. ICCR 0335.

Scientific and Professional societies of which a member

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
• American Chemical Society

Honors and awards.

• 2008-2009 ASHRAE New Investigator Award
• Miami University Committee on Faculty Research Award, 2008-2009
• Mechanical Science and Engineering Teaching Fellowship, University of Illinois, Spring 2007
• Alwin Schaller Endowment Fund Travel Grant, University of Illinois, Spring 2006
• Mechanical Science and Engineering Outstanding Scholar Fellowship, University of Illinois, 2001-2005
• Alumni of Clemson Engineering Scholarship, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 1996-2000

Institutional and Professional Service

Miami University (These are some selected examples)

• Develop the MME Thermal/Fluid lab curriculum, Fall 2007-present
• FE Review Lecturer, Fall 2007
• Member, Committee of the Department, meeting once a week, 2007-present

National

• Reviewer for Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, International Journal of Refrigeration, Langmuir, and Journal of Heat Transfer.

Professional Development Activities

• Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching Workshops, Miami University, Fall 2007
• Gave guest lecture and developed collaborative ties with the Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, Summer 2007.
• Attended the 2003 and 2006 ASHRAE Winter Meetings in Chicago, IL and the 2007 ACS National Meeting in Boston, MA.

Link to Dr. Sommers' web site