Principle Investigator

Professor MinJun Kim Ph.D (Curtis Hall #158 Office)

- Department of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics

- School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health System

 

Contact Information:

3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Tel) 215-895-2295 Fax) 215-895-1478

Email) mkim@coe.drexel.edu

 

A. PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Rowland Institute at Harvard, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

Ph.D., Division of Engineering, Fluid, Thermal, Chemical Processes (FTCP), Brown University, Providence, RI, U.S.A.

M.S.M.E., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, U.S.A.

B.S., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

 

B. Honors & Awards

HFSP Young Investigator Award, Human Frontier Science Program Office (2009 - 2012)

Drexel University Faculty Career Development Award, Drexel University (2008 - 2009)

NSF Fellowship, NSF Summer Institute on Nanomechanics, Nanomaterials and Micro/Nanomanufacturing (2008)

Stein Fellowship, Louis and Bessie Stein Family Foundation (2008 - 2009)

NSF Faculty Early CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2008 - 2013)

Best of Program Award, James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation (2007)

Simon Ostrach Fellowship, Brown University (2004 - 2005)

 

Chair, Microfluidics Symposium 2009: Fluid Engineering in Micro- and Nanosystems at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE), Lake Buena Vista, FL, U.S.A. (2009)

International Organizing Committee, The 2009 International Symposium on Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Jeju, Korea (2009)

International Organizing Committee & Keynote Speaker, The 2009 International Symposium on Nature-Inspired Technology, Jeju, Korea (2009)

Organizer, Single Molecule Biophysics World Networking Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. (2009)

Editorial Advisory Board Member, Journal of Bionic Engineering (2009 - present)

Editorial Advisory Board Member, Recent Patent on Nanotechnology (2008 - present)

Co-organizer, Microfluidics Symposium 2008: Fluid Engineering in Micro- and Nanosystems at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE), Boston, MA, U.S.A. (2008)

Keynote organizer, Microfluidics Symposium 2007: Fluid Engineering in Micro- and Nanosystems at the 2007 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE), Seattle, WA, U.S.A. (2007)

 

C. WORKING EXPERIENCES

Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. Aug. 2006 - present.

- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics

- Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems

Boston University, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering & Dept. of Physics, Boston, MA. Apr. 2006 - Jul. 2006.

- Visiting Research Scientist

Harvard University, Rowland Institute at Harvard, Cambridge, MA. Jul. 2005 - Jul. 2006.

- Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Brown University, Division of Engineering, RI. Apr. 2005 - Jul. 2005.

- Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Samsung Electronic Corp, Semiconductor Division, Suwon, Korea. Jan. 1997 - Aug. 1999.

- R&D Engineer

 

D. RESEARCH INTERESTS

Micro and Nano-scale Fluid Mechanics

Biological Transports Phenomena

Optical Diagnostics for Biological Flows and Microfluidics

Micro and Nano-scale Actuators and Sensors

Biomaterials for Adaptive Nanoelectronics

Feedback Controlled Drug Delievery Systems

 

E. TEACHING COURSES

MEM380/800 Microscale Diagnostic Techniques (FY2008-2009 Winter)

MEM380/800 Nanoscale Manufacturing & Metrology (FY 2007-2008 Winter)

MEM 310 Thermodynamic Analysis I (FY 2006-2009)

 

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