University of Missouri

Yuwen Zhang, FAAAS, FASME

Curators' Distinguished Professor

Huber and Helen Croft Chair in Engineering

E3408 Lafferre Hall

Columbia, MO 65211

Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri, 2009 –
Chairman, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri, 2013 – 2017
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri, 2003 – 2009
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, New Mexico State University, 2001 – 2003
Senior Engineer, Thermoflow, Inc., 2000 – 2000
Research Scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, 1999 – 2000

Fellow, American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE), 2024 –
Huber and Helen Croft Chair in Engineering, University of Missouri, 2021 –
Curators' Distinguished Professor, University of Missouri, 2020 –
Coulter Award, University of Missouri Coulter Translational Partnership Program, 2018
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), 2015 –
Certificate of Appreciation (for Service as K-15 Committee Chair, ASME Heat Transfer Division, 2014
James C. Dowell Professor, University of Missouri, 2012 – 2018
Certificate of Distinguished Service, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 2011
Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity, University of Missouri, 2010
Missouri Honors Senior Faculty Research Award, College of Engineering, University of Missouri, 2010
Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 2008 –
Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007 –
Faculty Fellow, College of Engineering, University of Missouri, 2007 – 2012
Computational Research Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, New Mexico State University, 2003
Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research (ONR), 2002
Senior Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 1999 – 2008