Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
Tel: (510) 642-7177
Fax: (510) 642-6163
email: vcarey@me.berkeley.edu
1976-1978
Project Engineer, Solar Energy Systems Development, Harrison Division of General Motors
1978-1980
Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering Department, SUNY at Buffalo
1980-1982
Senior Project Engineer, A/C Systems Development, Harrison Division of General Motors
1982-1985
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of California at Berkeley
1984-present
Associate Faculty, Applied Science Division. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
1985-1990
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of California at Berkeley
1990-present
Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of California at Berkeley
June-August 1995
Summer Faculty Fellow, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
1995-1997
Visiting Researcher, Distributed Computing Group, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
2007-2008
Energy and Environment Theme Leader - UC Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS).
2000 - inducted as a Fellow in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
2000 - recipient of the 1999 Best Paper Award from the Heat Transfer Division of ASME for the paper
"Thermal Bubble Formation on Polysilicon Micro Resistors" (co-authored with L. Lin and A. P. Pisano).
2001 - recipient of the 2001 Clifford C. Furnas Memorial Award from the University at Buffalo for
exceptional accomplishments by a graduate of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences or the
disciplines of natural sciences in the College of Arts and Science.
2004 - recipient of the James Harry Potter Gold Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for “sustained research and teaching in thermodynamics, in particular the innovative application of analysis tools derived from statistical thermodynamics or the thermodynamics of nonequilibrium systems, and the authorship of widely used textbooks on multiphase systems and statistical thermodynamics”.
2007 - recipient of the Heat Transfer Memorial Award in the Science category from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for “seminal and sustained contributions to thermal sciences, particularly near interface microscale phenomena, and transport in liquid-vapor systems”.
2007 - recipient of theASME Journal of Electronics Packaging Best Paper Award for 2006 for the paper "The exergy Cost of Informatin Proessing - A Comparison of Computer-Based Technologies and Biological Systems," by V.P. Carey and A. Shah.
Recent Professional Activities
Member of the ASME K-6 Committee on Heat Transfer in Energy Systems, 1984-1999, Chair of K-6, 1992-1995.
Member of the ASME K-8 Committee on Heat Transfer Fundamentals, 1996- present.
Member of the Executive Committee of the ASME Heat Transfer Division (2005-2011), currently serving as Secretary.
Vice Chair of the Society of Automotive Engineers Committee on Vehicular Heat Exchangers and Heat Transfer Systems, 1992-1994.
Served on review panels for proposals submitted to NASA's program on Heat Transfer and Multiphase Flow in Microgravity, May, 1992, May, 1994. Chaired the NASA review panel for proposals for this area in 1999.
Served on the Organizing Committee and as a Session Organizer for the UEF International Conference on Convective Flow Boiling, Banff, Canada, April, 1995.
Served as a member of the US Scientific Committee for the 11th International Heat Transfer Conference held in Seoul, Korea in 1998.
Served as Co-Chair for the Engineering Foundation Conference on Heat Transfer and Transport Phenomena in Microsystems held in Banff, Canada, October, 2000.
Reviewer for: Journal of Heat Transfer, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, SAE Transactions, AIChE Journal, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Computational Physics, International Journal of Transport Phenomena
Editor for the Journal of Experimental Heat Transfer , 1990-1995.
Editor for the International Journal of Transport Phenomena, 1996-present, currently Editor in Chief.
Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, 2000-2002.
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, 1995-present.
Editor for Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, 2000-present.
Private consultant for General Motors, Westinghouse, Kaiser Engineers, Modine Manufacturing Company,
Behr Automobiltechnik, Redwood Microsystems, Nanomuscle Incorporated, Vapore Incorporated, and
Procter & Gamble.
Taught short course entitled "Two-Phase Flow with Boiling and Condensation" for SAE, March, 1995, 1997, 1999.
Member of the Organizing Committee for the 6th ASME-JSME Thermal Engineering Joint Conference held on Hawaii Island, Hawaii, 2003.
Technical Program Chair for the 2003 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Member of the NASA Scientific Working Group on Rankine Cycle Power Systems for Space Applications, January - April, 2004.
Member of the ASME Heat Transfer Division Executive Committee 2005-2010.
Graduate Student Research Advising
Served as thesis or project adviser for 56 MS students and 24 PhD students. (as of 2007).
Publications
Professor Carey is the author or co-author of over 150 technical publications. Two of his publications are advanced textbooks that have become widely used in graduate level engineering courses: Liquid-Vapor Phase Change Phenomena (Taylor and Francis, 1992; second edition - 2007) and Statistical Thermodynamics and Microscale Thermophysics (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999).
Patents
Professor Carey holds three patents: two in solar energy system components and one in phase change thermal energy storage:
US Patent No. 4191172, Thermostatic Mixer Valve for Solar Hot Water Systems, R.L. Walch, Jr., V.P. Carey and M. Thomas, inventors.
US Patent No. 4,249,597, Plate type heat exchanger, V.P. Carey, inventor.
US Patent No. 5,385,078, Conducting Phase Change Material Armature for an Electromagnetic Launcher System, V.P. Carey and M.T. Do, inventors.
Software
Author of a compact, fast, psychrometric property software package for Palm hand-held PDA devices. The package, which is now sold under the name PsychroPDA, provides accurate psychrometric properties for use in thermodynamic analysis of air-conditioning systems and meteorological processes. The PsychroPDA software has been marketed by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers at its web site (http://www.ashrae.org/).
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