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Baratunde Cola

Visiting Associate Professor 2015-2016 Associate professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been in the minority… It will take such a small committed minority to work unrelentingly to win the uncommitted majority. Such a group may transform America’s greatest dilemma into her most glorious opportunity.
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Background

Baratunde Cola is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned his PhD from Purdue University, and earned his BE and MS from Vanderbilt University.

Interests

Cola’s research studies heat transfer, combustion and energy systems, and micro and nano engineering. These include nanoengineering; energy transport and conversion in nanostructures; nanomaterials synthesis; thermal properties measurements; thermo-electrochemical energy conversion; and thermal transport in polymers and molecular junctions. He seeks to develop new science and technology exploiting energy transport processes at the nanoscale to excite, educate, and employ the world.

Cola is particularly interested in investigating energy transport through interfaces and nanosized contacts, which are ubiquitous in nanostructured devices. His students learn to conduct research as part of an interdisciplinary team and to apply fundamental principles from science and engineering to solve problems that enable technologies supporting clean energy solutions, smaller and more affordable electronics, and general improvements to global living standards.

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