Joel Chapman
Associate Professor of Engineering
Department(s)
EngineeringCredentials
BS in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University (2008)
MS in Engineering Management from Old Dominion University (2014)
MS in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology (2021)
PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology (2022)
About Joel Chapman
Joel Chapman is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He received a Bachelor of Science from North Carolina State University in 2008, a Masters of Engineering Management from Old Dominion University in 2014, a Masters of Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2021, and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2022. He served as a Naval Nuclear Propulsion Officer on active duty from 2008-2016 as the Combat Information Center Officer on Mine Countermeasures Crew “Leader,” as the Reactor Mechanical Division Officer on the USS ENTERPRISE, and as an instructor of Reactor Dynamics and Core Characteristics at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command.
He currently serves as a Lieutenant Commander within the Engineering Duty Officer Community. Within the civilian professional realm, his areas of expertise are in the field of Thermal and Fluid Sciences, with a focus on thermal management of electronics. His research work focuses on evaporative cooling enhancement provided by nanoelectrosprayed aerosol jet impingement, and he has provided experimental support to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for the assessment of pulsating heat pipe technology. He has also performed design and prototyping work to develop novel Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM) systems for tissue analysis.
He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has been married to his wife Elizabeth since 2011, and they have two children.
"As an educator, my primary goal is to prepare students so that they can contribute to the advancement of the STEM fields, not only after they graduate but also while they are still under my instruction. Professional development and participation in relevant work begins right now. My role then is not only to facilitate academics, but also to help students find relevant internships and, to begin assessing future employment opportunities, and to mentor students as they step into their careers."
Awards
Magna Cum Laude at NC State University
Two Navy Achievement Medals
Navy Commendation Medal
Meritorious Unit Commendation Medal
Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary and Service Medals
National Defense Service Medal
Awarded NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship and GA Tech President’s Fellowship in 2016
“Best Graduate Student Poster” at ITHERM 2017 and “Best Paper” at ITHERM 2018
John Mathers Nobel Scholar in 2018
ASME’s K-16 Graduate Student Paper of the Year Award 2020
Signature Experiences
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Heat Transfer Division and Electronic/Photonic Packaging Division.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Education Society and Electronics Packaging Society.
Recent Scholarly Work & Publications
J.D. Chapman, P.A. Kottke, and A.G. Fedorov, Towards Using Nanoelectrospray for Evaporative Heat Transfer Enhancement, ITherm 2017 Proceedings, 13-22 (2017), 10.1109/ITHERM.2017.7991851
J. D. Chapman, P. A. Kottke and A. G. Fedorov, "Nanoelectrosprayed Liquid Jets for Evaporative Heat Transfer Enhancement," 2018 17th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), San Diego, CA, 2018, pp. 602-608.doi: 10.1109/ITHERM.2018.8419522
Joel D. Chapman, Peter A. Kottke, Andrei G. Fedorov, Enhanced thin film evaporation via impinging electrospray liquid jets with entrained air streaming, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 131, 2019, Pages 85-95, ISSN 0017-9310, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2018.11.049
Joel D. Chapman, Heat and Mass Transfer Enhancement By Entrained Gas Jets in Electrospray Aerosol Plumes, [Unpublished doctoral dissertation], 2022, Georgia Institute of Technology.