The Minnesota Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation
Friday Teah
College and major
Short biography
I was born in Liberia in the year 1985. In 2002 his family moved to the US due to civil war. In 2007, Friday joined Minnesota Department of Transportation as an Engineering intern. By the spring of 2007, I was accepted into Mechanical Engineering program here at the U of M twin cities campus to persuade his undergraduate degree. During the month of June of this year, Friday received a service/leadership awards for his contribution to the University of Minnesota NSBE BRIDGE design team. I am looking forwarding to the completion of his undergraduate degree by December of the year.
Research and collaborators
Industries, military, small businesses and individuals use electronic equipment to perform daily tasks. Many electronic types of equipment including computers required cooling due to dissipation of electrical energy. Traditionally, heat is removed from the equipment by built in fans and pumped liquid cooling or refrigeration systems. Due to the complexities and inefficiency engulfed by these systems, they do not provide a promising future for the cooling of electronic equipment. With synthetic jet air is forced through a flexible diaphragm producing a flow which synthesizes with ambient air to cool a heated surfaces or environments. Based on other studies, synthetic jets have proven to provide high heat transfer at low flow rates with low acoustics and high reliability. However, these studies were done using flat heated surfaces. However, many heating applications have curve surfaces. With this in mind, the opportunity is given to me to work with Dr. Terry Simon, professor of Mechanical Engineering to study the effectiveness of heat removal from contour surfaces using synthetic jet agitator.