News
2019
| Dec 2019: | Ben Brownlee joins Teledyne Scientific Company. Congratulations! |
| Nov 2019: | The Flux Lab has a strong showing at IMECE 2019 in Salt Lake City with Ben Brownlee, Aaron Bame, Ernest Lee, Rydge Mulford, Sam Avila and Kyle Meaker presenting. |
| Sep 2019: | Shaur Humayun joins the Flux Lab as a PhD student studying condensation at superhydrophobic surfaces. |
| Aug 2019: | Rydge Mulford joins the faculty at the University of Dayton. Congratulations! |
| Aug 2019: | Dr. Iverson presents work regarding condensation at superhydrophobic surfaces at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. |
| Jul 2019: | Dr. Iverson is promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. Congratulations! |
| Jun 2019: | Dr. Iverson, Aaron Bame and Joe Furner visit the Hunter power plant in Castledale, UT identifying conditions of operation for a replicate model. |
| Jun 2019: | Rydge Mulford defends his dissertation and completes his PhD degree. Congratulations! |
| May 2019: | Dr. Iverson presents work regarding condensation at superhydrophobic surfaces at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
| May 2019: | Austin Foster defends his thesis and completes his M.S. degree. Congratulations! |
| Apr 2019: | Derric Syme defends his thesis and completes his M.S./MBA degree. Congratulations! |
| Jan 2019: | Sam Avila joins the Flux Lab as an MS student studying thermal gradient gas chromatography. |
| Jan 2019: | Dr. Iverson is given the Outstanding Research Award for the BYU Mechanical Engineering Department during 2018. |
| Jan 2019: | The study of solar-thermal augmentation of the Hunter power plant gets underway. |
2018
| Dec 2018: | Kim Stevens begins her post-doctoral position at Purdue University working in biofluids. |
| Dec 2018: | The Flux Lab secures funding from PacifiCorp and the State of UT to investigate solar augmentation of coal-fired power plants. |
| Nov 2018: | Rydge Mulford presents his deployable radiator experimentation results from NASA at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Pittsburg, PA. |
| Nov 2018: | Kim Stevens presents her work on droplet distribution modeling at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics conference in Atlanta, GA. |
| Sep 2018: | Our work in condensation at superhydrophobic surfaces was awarded funding from the NSF Particulate and Multiphase Processes Program. |
| Aug 2018: | Dr. Iverson presented our radiative cooling work using origami structured surfaces at the International Heat Transfer Conference in Beijing, China. |
| Aug 2018: | Aaron Bame joins the Flux Lab as an MS student studying a solar-augmented, coal-fired power plant. |
| Jun 2018: | Ben Brownlee presented our work with carbon biosensors (for glucose monitoring and oral cancer detection) at the World Congress on Biosensors in Miami, FL. |
| Jun 2018: | Rydge Mulford advances his work at JPL in the advanced deployables structures group on a summer internship. |
| Jun 2018: | Congratulations to Ben Brownlee and Kim Stevens for receiving Utah NASA Space Grant Consortium Fellowships for the 2018-2019 academic year. |
| May 2018: | Rydge Mulford completes the NASA-funded, collapsible radiator test at Goddard. |
| May 2018: | Ernest Lee joins the Flux Lab as an MS student studying directional properties of origami surfaces. |
| Mar 2018: | Congratulations to Kim Stevens for having her paper accepted in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer by Elsevier (link). |
| Mar 2018: | Dr. Iverson received the NSF CAREER Award in the Thermal Transport Processes Program. |
| Feb 2018: | Congratulations to Ben Brownlee for securing an internship at AFRL Albuquerque, NM this summer. |
| Feb 2018: | Congratulations to Kim Stevens for securing an position at the Science of Signatures, Advanced Studies Institute a Los Alamos National Laboratories this April. |
| Feb 2018: | Congratulations to Jacob Butterfield and Josh Cannon for being selected to receive a BYU ORCA grant to perform undergraduate research. |
| Jan 2018: | The Flux Lab in collaboration with researchers in chemistry and ECE received a grant to study heat transfer in gas chromatography. |
2017
| Nov 2017: | Rydge Mulford presents his work at ASME IMECE in Tampa, FL. |
| Nov 2017: | Kim Stevens presents her work at the APS Fluid Division meeting in Denver, CO. |
| Aug 2017: | Rydge Mulford presents his work at NASA Thermal & Fluid Analysis Workshop in Tampa, FL. |
| Aug 2017: | Rydge Mulford presents his work at the Air Force Research Lab in Albuquerque NM. |
| Jun 2017: | Congratulations to Ben Brownlee and Kim Stevens for receiving Utah NASA Space Grant Consortium Fellowships for the 2017-2018 academic year. |
| May 2017: | Austin Foster joins the Flux Lab as an MS student studying thermal gradient gas chromatography. |
| Mar 2017: | Dr. Iverson presents on "Transport enhancement with surface topography," at Duke University. |
| Feb 2017: | Congratulations to Ben Brownlee for having his first academic paper accepted in the Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical journal by Elsevier (link). |
| Feb 2017: | Congratulations Kim Stevens on placing at the 3MT contest at both the department and college competitions. |
| Feb 2017: | Congratulations to Taylor Davis for being selected to receive a BYU ORCA grant to perform undergraduate research. |
2016
| Dec 2016: | The Flux Lab in collaboration with researchers in chemistry and ECE receives a grant to study heat transfer in gas chromatography. |
| Nov 2016: | Kim Stevens presents her work at the APS Fluid Division meeting in Portland, OR. |
| Nov 2016: | Rydge Mulford presents his ray tracing work with Michael Farnsworth at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Phoenix, AZ. |
| Nov 2016: | Rydge Mulford presents his work on origami-based variable radiators as a part of a NASA webinar series. |
| Oct 2016: | Congratulations to Rydge Mulford in passing his prospectus defense. |
| Jul 2016: | Ben Brownlee presents his work on convective enhanced sensing at the ASME International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels in Washington, DC. |
| Jul 2016: | Dr. Iverson presents his vision regarding surface topology and its influence on heat and mass transfer at NASA Goddard. |
| Jun 2016: | Congratulations to Ben Brownlee and Kim Stevens for receiving Utah NASA Space Grant Consortium Fellowships for the 2016-2017 academic year. |
| May 2016: | The Flux Lab in collaboration with researchers in ECE receives a NASA USIP grant to design, build and launch a Cubesat into space in 2017. |
| Mar 2016: | Congratulations to Michael Farnsworth and Kim Stevens for receiving AFRL internships this summer as a part of the Phillips Scholars Program and Universities Space Research Association (USRA). |
| Feb 2016: | Congratulations to Michael Farnsworth for receiving an ORCA fellowship from BYU. |
| Jan 2016: | Congratulations to Mitchell Blanc for publishing his IR visualization images for origami radiators in the Journal of Heat Transfer. |
2015
| Dec 2015: | Congratulations to Kim Stevens for passing her prospectus defense! |
| Nov 2015: | Kim Stevens presents her work at the APS Fluid Division meeting in Boston, MA. |
| Oct 2015: | Congratulations to Rydge Mulford in publishing his first journal article in the Journal of Heat Transfer. |
| Aug 2015: | ACS Nano interviewed Dr. Iverson and Dr. Claussen for their podcast. You can listen to the interview here. (link) |
| Aug 2015: | Loved the following video about the new engineering building breaking ground next year. We are a part of something great happening at BYU! (link) |
| Jul 2015: | Dr. Iverson and Kevin Marr were interviewed by Julie Rose for the BYU Radio program: Top of the Mind. Listen to the broadcast regarding propulsion for micro underwater vehicles (link) |
| Jun 2015: | Kim Stevens was awarded a Utah NASA Space Grant Consortium fellowship for the 2015-2016 academic year. |
| Jun 2015: | Congratulations to Kevin Marr in publishing his first journal article in ACS Nano (IF: 12.88). (link) |
| Jun 2015: | Congratulations to Kim Stevens who successfully defended her MS thesis on vocal fold models and characterization methods. |
| Jun 2015: | Congratulations to Kevin Marr who successfully defended his thesis on catalytic nano/microstructures using high aspect ratio CNT scaffolds. |
| Jun 2015: | We welcome Ben Brownlee as he officially begins his work as a doctoral student. He was also awarded a college fellowship as a new PhD student. |
| May 2015: | Rydge Mulford was awarded a NASA Space Technology Research Fund Fellowship for his continued studies of radiation properties of origami structures. |
| May 2015: | Kim Stevens and Rydge Mulford present their work at the Utah NASA Space Grant Consortium fellowship symposium (May 12, 2015), held at the Leonardo in SLC. |
| Apr 2015: | Rydge Mulford is awarded a BYU Graduate Studies fellowship for the 2015-2016 academic year. |
| Feb 2015: | Ben Brownlee and Carson Storey are awarded undergraduate ORCA scholarships for their work on carbon nanotube scaffolds for chemical sensing. |
| Jan 2015: | Rydge Mulford wins the Mechanical Engineering Department and Engineering College Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competitions. |
2014
| Nov 2014: | Kevin Marr presents his fabrication and propulsion work at the annual APS Fluids Division meeting in San Francisco. |
| Oct 2014: | The Flux Lab was awarded NASA EPSCoR funding for their work on dynamic control of radiative properties using origami. |
| Oct 2014: | The Army Research Lab and NASA Goddard will host Dr. Iverson for a technical presentation of work performed in the Flux Lab. |
| Sep 2014: | Kim Stevens officially begins her PhD work with the Flux Lab. |
| Aug 2014: | Congratulations to Kevin Marr on his marriage! |
| Jul 2014: | Rydge Mulford was awarded Rocky Mountain NASA Space Grant Consortium Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year. Congratulations Rydge! |
| May 2014: | Derric Syme and Rydge Mulford officially begin their graduate degrees. |
| Mar 2014: | Origami presentation well-received at the Spacecraft Thermal Control Workshop hosted by the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, CA. |
| Jan 2014: | Renewable Energy Global Innovation Series featured our work as a key scientific article (link). |