Gregory Michna

Education

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001

Academic Interests

Heat Transfer
Convective Heat Transfer
Fluid Mechanics
Computational Fluid Mechanics (CFD)

Academic Responsibilities

Courses Taught:
EM 331: Fluid Mechanics
ME 412/512: Internal Combustion Engines
ME 415: Heat Transfer
ME 418/518: Design of Thermal Systems
ME 476: Thermo-Fluids Laboratory
ME 703: Thermo-Fluid Energy Systems
ME 711: Advanced Heat Transfer I

Awards and Honors

2018 Timothy J. Nichols Undergraduate Advising Award, South Dakota State University
2017 Students’ Choice Award (Teacher of the Year), Department of Mechanical Engineering, South Dakota State University.
2015 Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering Teacher of the Year, South Dakota State University
2012 Outstanding Reviewer, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer.
2012 Students’ Choice Award (Teacher of the Year), Department of Mechanical Engineering, South Dakota State University.
2010 Students’ Choice Award (Teacher of the Year), Department of Mechanical Engineering, South Dakota State University.

Grants

2021 Gregory J. Michna (PI) and Stephen Gent (Co-PI), “CFD Analysis of Fluid, Heat, and Impurity Flows in DUNE FAR Detector to Address Additional Design Considerations – Phase 4,” Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), $244,079.
2021 Todd Letcher (PI) and Gregory J. Michna (Co-PI), “In-Situ Resource Utilization NASA Design Challenges,” South Dakota Space Grant Consortium (SDSGC), $140,213.
2019 Gregory J. Michna (PI) and Stephen Gent (Co-PI), “CFD Analysis of Fluid, Heat, and Impurity Flows in DUNE FAR Detector to Address Additional Design Considerations – Phase 3,” Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), $137,597.
2018 Gregory J. Michna (PI) and Stephen P. Gent (Co-PI), “CFD Analysis of Fluid, Heat, and Impurity Flows in DUNE FAR Detector to Address Additional Design Considerations – Phase 2,” Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), $109,445.
2017 Gregory J. Michna (PI) and Todd M. Letcher (Co-PI), “Startup of South Dakota State University CubeSat Club,” South Dakota Space Grant Consortium (SDSGC), $10,007.
2017 Todd M. Letcher (PI) and Gregory J. Michna (Co-PI), “Advanced Materials for 3D Printable Heat Exchangers,” South Dakota Space Grant Consortium (SDSGC), $11,658.
2016 Todd Letcher (PI) and Gregory J. Michna (Co-PI), “3D Printable Heat Exchangers to Enhance Student Learning Related to Space Science,” South Dakota Space Grant Consortium, $80,766.
2016 Gregory J. Michna (PI), and Stephen P. Gent (Co-PI), “Further CFD Analysis of Fluid, Heat, and Impurity Flows in DUNE FAR Detector,” Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) – Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), $49,955.
2013 Stephen Gent (PI) and Gregory J. Michna (Co-PI), “Bio-Oils from Oilseed Byproduct Feedstock,” North Central Regional Sun Grant Center (U.S. Department of Transportation), $187,500.
2013 Gregory J. Michna (PI), “Toward Realization of Pulsating Heat Pipe Electronics Cooling Systems,” South Dakota Board of Regents Competitive Research Grant Program, $99,118.

Professional Memberships

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)

Work Experience

Associate Professor, South Dakota State University, 2015-present
Assistant Professor, South Dakota State University, 2009-2015
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2007-2009
Lecturer, Iowa State University, 2006-2007

Creative Activities

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

2011 Michna, G. J., Browne, E. A., Peles, Y., and Jensen, M. K., “The Effect of Area Ratio on Microjet Array Heat Transfer,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 54(9-10), pp. 1782-1790.
2010 Browne, E. A., Michna, G. J., Jensen, M. K., and Peles, Y., “Microjet Array Single-Phase and Flow Boiling Heat Transfer with R134a,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 53(22-23), pp. 5027-5034.
2010 Browne, E. A., Michna, G. J., Jensen, M. K., and Peles, Y., “Experimental Investigation of Microjet Array Heat Transfer,” Journal of Heat Transfer, 132(4), 041013.
2009 Michna, G. J., Browne, E. A., Peles, Y., and Jensen, M. K., “Single-Phase Microscale Jet Stagnation Point Heat Transfer,” Journal of Heat Transfer, 131(11), 111402.
2007 Michna, G. J., Jacobi, A. M., and Burton, R. L, “An Experimental Study of the Friction Factor and Mass Transfer Performance of an Offset-Strip Fin Array at Very High Reynolds Numbers,” Journal of Heat Transfer, 129(9), pp. 1134-1140.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

2019 Pereira, L., Letcher, T., and Michna, G. J., “The Effects of 3D Printing Parameters and Surface Roughness on Convective Heat Transfer Performance,” Proceedings of the 2019 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, 15-18 July, 2019, Bellevue, Washington, USA.
2019 Raslan, A., Michna, G., and Ciarcia, M., “Thermal Simulation of a CubeSat,” Proceedings of the 19th Annual IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT2019), 20-22 May, 2019, Brookings, South Dakota, USA.
2018 Michna, G. J. and Letcher, T., “Designing 3-D Printed Heat Exchangers in a Senior-level Thermal Systems Course,” Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 24-27 June, 2018, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
2018 Letcher, T., Michna, G. J., VerSteeg, J. D., and Michna, S. M., “Stimulating Interest in First-Year Mechanical Engineering Students through Design Modeling/Analysis and CNC Manufacturing,” Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 24-27 June, 2018, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
2016 Hoesing, M. P. and Michna, G. J., “Oscillating Heat Pipe Performance with Modified Evaporator Geometries,” ICNMM2016-7980, Proceedings of the ASME 2016 14th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, 10-14 July, 2016, Washington, DC, USA.

Area(s) of Research

Heat and mass transfer
Convective heat transfer
Electronics cooling
Thermodynamics