Jesse Maddren, Ph.D., P.E.

Associate Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407

Office: Engineering 13-221
Telephone: (805) 756-1386
Fax: (805) 756-1137
E-mail: jmaddren@calpoly.edu

Biography

Dr. Jesse Maddren
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Education
BSME (1985) University of California, Santa Barbara
MSME (1988) University of California, Santa Barbara
Ph.D. (1994) University of California, Santa Barbara

Professional Affiliations
Associate Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Member, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
Member, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineering (ASHRAE)

Credentials
Registered Professional Engineer in the state of California.

Background
Professor Maddren received his BS, MS and Ph.D degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 1985, 1988 and 1994 respectively. From 1988 to 1990, Professor Maddren worked as an engineer in the thermodynamics group at General Dynamics, Space Systems Division. His work included thermodynamic analysis of cyryogenic, upper stage rockets (Centaur). The division has since been purchased by Lockheed-Martin which uses the Centaur as an upper stage for the Atlas and Titan launch vehicles. Before coming to Cal Poly, Dr. Maddren worked for almost five years as Assistant Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at San Jose State University. Summer activities have included research at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View and Design Engineer at Critchfield Mechanical Inc. in Menlo Park.

Professor Maddren joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly in Fall 1999. His background is primarily in the thermal sciences (thermodynamics and heat transfer) and he is especially interested in the field of heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC). His past  research activities include: thermal contact resistance with applications for satellite imaging systems (sponsored by Santa Barbara Research Center- now Raytheon), numerical modeling of fluid flow in pipes (sponsored by General Electric Nuclear) and thermophysical property measurement of thermal protection system materials (sponsored by NASA Ames Research Center).

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Classes Taught

ME 313 Heat Transfer
ME 341 Fluid Mechanics
ME 440 Thermal System Design
ME 458 HVAC System Design

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Current Schedule and Office Hours

Winter 2003 Schedule

Winter 2003 Office Hours

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Publications

"Internal Radiation Transport and Effective Thermal Conductivity of Fibrous Ceramic Insulation" with J. Marschall and J. Parks, 35th AIAA Thermophysics Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 11-14, 2001.

"Thermal Property Parameter Estimation from Lagged Temperature Data," with J. Parks, J. Marschall and F. Milos, 7^th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, Albuquerque, NM, June 15-18, 1998.

"Thermal Contact Resistance at Cryogenic Temperatures," ASME/AIChE 31st National Heat Transfer Conference, Houston, TX, August 3-6, 1996

"Finite Element Modeling of Heat Transfer Across Bolted Joints," with E. Marschall, International Journal of Microelectronic Packaging, Vol. 1, pp. 51-61, 1995.

"Predicting Thermal Contact Resistance at Cryogenic Temperatures for Spacecraft Applications," with E. Marschall, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 469-474, May-June 1995.

"Heat Transfer During Drop Formation and Release," with E. Marschall, Experiments in Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics, Ed. R. Granger, pp. 192-200, Cambridge University Press, 1994.

"Thermal Contact Resistance of Dissimilar Presses Metal Contacts in a Vacuum Environment," with K. E. Parmenter and E. Marschall, Thermal Conductivity, Vol. 22, Ed. T. W. Tong, pp. 690-700, Technomic Publishing Co., 1994

"Thermal Contact Resistance of Pressed Metal Contacts at Cryogenic Temperatures," with T.H. McWaid and E. Marschall, ASME/AIChE 29th National Heat Transfer Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, August 8-11, 1993.

"Predicting Thermal Contact Resistance at Cryogenic Temperatures for Spacecraft Applications," with E. Marschall, AIAA 28th Thermophysics Conference, Orlando, Florida, July 6-9, 1993, AIAA Paper No. 93-2775.

"Radiachromic Dye Methods," with E. Marschall, Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 117-127, April-June 1993.

"Photochromic Flow Visualization in Non-Isothermal Liquid-Liquid Two-Phase Flow," with C. Mansson and E. Marschall, Flow Visualization VI, Eds. Y. Tanida and H. Miyashiro, pp. 550-554, Springer-Verlag, 1992

"Photochromic Flow Visualization in Isothermal and Non-Isothermal Liquid-Liquid Two-Phase Flow," with C. Mansson and E. Marschall, Experimental Techniques in Multiphase Flows, FED-Vol. 125, pp. 27-31, ASME, 1991.

"Heat Transfer During Drop Formation and Release in a Liquid-Liquid Two-Phase System," with E. Marschall, Proceedings First World Conference for Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, Sept. 4-9, 1988, pp. 363-370.

This web page is under the supervision of Dr. Jesse Maddren. He can be reached at jmaddren@calpoly.edu or by phone at (805) 756-1386. This page was last updated on March 30th, 2001.