Neil Wright

Contact Information

Address: Engineering Bldg.
428 S Shaw Ln
Room: 2242
East Lansing , MI 48824

Phone:

(517) 432-4917

Email:

ntwright@msu.edu

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Education

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania 1992
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado 1986
  • B.S., Engineering Science & Mechanics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute 1981

Research Interests

  • Heat Transfer
  • Thermophysical Property Measurement
  • Parameter Estimation
  • Thermal Biology

Selected Publications

  1. Pence, T.J., Monroe, R.J., and N. T. Wright, 2008, "On the computation of stress in affine versus non-affine fibril kinematics within planar collagen network models," Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, v. 130, 041009-1
  2. Munsell, B. A., Beede, D. K., Domecq, J. J., Epperson, W. B., Ragavendran A., Wright, N. T.,Zanella, A. J., "Use of infrared thermography to non-invasively identify lesions in dairy cows," Journal of Animal Science, 84, pp. 143-143, Suppl. 1, 2006.
  3. Beck, J.V., N. T. Wright, and A. Haji-Sheikh, 2008, "Solutions for Heat Conduction with Time-Varying Boundary Conditions," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, v. 51, pp. 2553-2565.
  4. Aizaz A., Bauer P., Grimm T. L., Wright N. T., Antoine, C. Z., 2007, "Measurements of thermal conductivity and Kapitza conductance of niobium for SRF cavities for various treatments," IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 17:2, pp. 1310-1313.

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Awards

  • 2018 - Fellow, ASME
  • 2015 - John D. and Dortha J. Withrow Teaching Excellence Award in Mechanical Engineering
  • 2013 - An ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering Editors' Choice Paper
  • 1996 - Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Research Award
  • 1990 - John A. Goff Award, University of Pennsylvania, Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics