M.SE. in Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 2011 GPA: 8.30/9.00 (A + =9.0, A=8.0)

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1 Curriculum Vitae (M. Abarham, Ph.D.) Page 1/5 Mehdi Abarham Address: Research and Advanced Engineering Department, Ford Motor Company Research and Innovation Center (RIC) 2101 Village Road, Dearborn, MI EDUCATION Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering,, Ann Arbor, MI 2011 Advisors: Professor Dennis Assanis and Associate Research Scientist John Hoard M.SE. in Aerospace Engineering,, Ann Arbor, MI 2011 GPA: 8.30/9.00 (A + =9.0, A=8.0) Graduate Research Assistant, Michigan State University (MSU) Pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran 2003 GPA:18.41/20.00 (1 st rank out of 30 students) Advisors: Professor M. Hassan Saidi and Professor Akbar Ghafourian B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 2001 Advisor: Professor M. Hassan Saidi RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research Engineer Ford Motor Company Research and Advanced Engineering Department Developing models for various engine air path issues including condensation management, corrosion and deposition/fouling by using Matlab/Simulink Present Graduate Student Research Assistant W.E. Lay Automotive Lab Department of Mechanical Engineering, -Ann Arbor Thesis: A Combined Modeling and Experimental Investigation of Nan-Particulate Transport in Non-Isothermal Turbulent Internal Flows Advisors: Professor Dennis Assanis and Associate Research Scientist John Hoard Independent Research Study Department of Aerospace Engineering, -Ann Arbor Description: Two-phase flow modeling of a falling liquid droplet in air impacting a solid surface by employing the level set method Advisor: Professor Krzysztof Fidkowski Independent Research Study-Combustion & Thermal Property Measurement Lab Description: Fuel Droplet with Vaporized Background Fuel: D 2 Condensation Followed by D 2 Evaporation Advisor: Professor Indrek S. Wichman

2 Curriculum Vitae (M. Abarham, Ph.D.) Page 2/5 Graduate Student Research Assistant Description: Experimental Study on Laser Hybrid Welding (MIG-CO2) Independent Research Study-Turbulent Mixing/Unsteady Aerodynamics Lab Description: Quantitative Measurement of Molecular Mixing in Gaseous Flows using Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) Advisor: Professor Manoochehr Koochesfahani Graduate Student Research Assistant - Advance Heat Transfer Lab Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University M.Sc. Thesis: Effect of Vortex Flow on Heat Transfer to Combustion Chamber Walls Graduate Student Research Assistant - Advance Heat Transfer Lab Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University B.Sc. Thesis: Optimization of Vehicle Cooling System TEACHING EXPERIENCE Graduate Student Instructor Fall 2007 ME 201 (Thermodynamics) Primary Instructors: Professor Giles Brereton and Professor Tonghun Lee Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Tutor for Fluid Dynamics and Mathematics Appointed by the Graduate Director Lab Coordinator and Lead Graduate Student Instructor ME 332 (Fluid Mechanics Laboratory) Primary Instructor: Professor Manoochehr Koochesfahani Graduate Student Instructor ME 332 (Fluid Mechanics) Primary Instructor: Professors Manoochehr Koochesfahani and Farhad Jaberi Graduate Student Instructor Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology ME 332 (Thermodynamics Laboratory) Primary Instructor: Professor M. Hassan Saidi HONORS AND AWARDS Awarded by Ford Motor Recognition Program 2012 Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant,

3 Curriculum Vitae (M. Abarham, Ph.D.) Page 3/5 The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi membership Since nd Place, Poster Presentation, Engineering Graduate Symposium, Fall 2010 Best Master s Thesis Award from Farid-Alam Foundation (Nationwide) Fall 2004 Iranian Society of Mechanical Engineering (ISME). Awarded the Graduate School Scholarship Winter 2003 By the Council of University Exceptional Talents, Sharif University. First Rank in M.S. Thermo-fluid Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University. Fall 2003 Third Rank in B.S. Thermo-fluid Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University. Fall 2001 JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS 1. Abarham, M., Zamankhan, P., Hoard, J., Styles, D., Sluder C.S., Storey, J.M.E., Lance, M., Assanis, D., " CFD analysis of particle transport in Axsi-Symmetric Tubes under the Influence of thermophorethic Force", International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 61: , Abarham, M., Chafekar, T., Salvi, A., Hoard, J., Styles, D., Assanis, D., "In-Situ Visualization of Exhaust Soot Particles Deposition and Removal in Channel Flows", Chemical Engineering Science, 87: , 14 January Abarham, M., Wichman, I.S., "Mono-Component Fuel Droplet Evaporation in the Presence of Background Fuel Vapor", International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 54(17-18): , Abarham, M., Hoard, J., Assanis, D., Styles, Sluder C.S., Storey, J.M.E., "An Analytical Study of Thermophoretic Particulate Deposition in Turbulent Pipe Flows", Aerosol Science and Technology, 44(9): , Abarham, M., Hoard, J., Assanis, D., Styles, Curtis, E.W., Ramesh, N, "Review of Soot Deposition and Removal Mechanisms in EGR Coolers", SAE International Journal of Fuel and Lubricants, 3(1): , Abarham, M., Hoard, J., Assanis, D., Styles, Curtis, E.W., Ramesh, N., D., Sluder C.S., Storey, J.M.E., "Modeling of Thermophoretic Soot Deposition and Hydrocarbon Condensation in EGR Coolers", SAE International Journal of Fuels and Lubricants, 2(1): , Hoard, J., Abarham, M., Styles, D., Giuliano, J.M., Sluder C.S., Storey, J.M.E., "Diesel EGR Cooler Fouling", SAE International Journal of Engines, 1(1): , Ghafourian, A., Saidi, M.H., Jahangirian, S., Abarham, M., "Effect of Vortex Flow on Heat Transfer to Combustion Chamber Wall", ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbine and Power, 129: , In preparation 9. Abarham, M., Styles, D., Curtis, E., Storey, J. M. E., "A corrosion assessment model for heat exchangers".

4 Curriculum Vitae (M. Abarham, Ph.D.) Page 4/5 10. Abarham, M., "CFD analysis of a fuel droplet evaporation in cold ambient - A level set approach". PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS 1. Salvi, A., Hoard, J., Bieniek, M., Abarham M., Styles, D., Assanis, D., "Effect of volatiles on soot based deposit layers ", Proceedings of the ASME 2013 Internal Combustion Engine Division Fall Technical Conference, ICEF , October Salvi, A., Hoard, J., Jagarlapudi, P., Pornphaithoonsa, T., Collao, K., Assanis, D., Styles, D., Abarham, M., Curtis, E., "Optical and infrared in-situ measurements of EGR cooler fouling", SAE world congress 2013, SAE , Detroit, Michigan, April Abarham, M., Chafekar, T., Hoard, J., Styles, D., Assanis, D., "A visualization test setup for investigation of water-deposit interaction in a surrogate rectangular cooler exposed to diesel exhaust flow", SAE world congress 2012, SAE , Detroit, Michigan, April Hoard, J., Chafekar, T., Abarham, M., Riley Schwader, Steve Uplegger, Styles, D., Assanis, D., "Large particles in modern diesel engine exhaust", ASME 2012 Internal combustion engine division spring technical conference (ICES 2012), Torino, Italy, May Abarham, M., Wichman, I.S., "Initial Condensation phase Followed by D2-Law Evaporation Phase of a Fuel Droplet With a Vaporized Fuel Background", 6th National Combustion Meeting, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, May Abarham, M., Hoard, J., Assanis, D., Styles, Curtis, E.W., Ramesh, N., D., Sluder C.S., Storey, J.M.E., "Numerical modeling and experimental investigations of EGR cooler fouling in a diesel engine", SAE International World Congress, SAE , Detroit, Michigan, USA, April Abarham, M., Wichman, I.S., "Analytical and Numerical Study of the Evaporation of a Single Fuel Droplet with a Vaporized Fuel Background", Proceedings of the 2008 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, ASME Paper IMECE , Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Jahangirian, S., Abarham, M., Ghafourian, A., Saidi, M.H., "Effect of Vortex Flow on Heat Transfer to Combustion Chamber Walls", Proceedings of the 2004 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, IMECE , Anaheim, California, USA, November Saidi, M.H., Ghafourian, A., Abarham, M., Jahangirian, S., "Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Effect of Vortex Flows on Wall Cooling in a Gaseous Diffusion Flame", Proceedings of 12 th Annual and 8 th International Mechanical Engineering Conference, Tehran, Iran, 2004.

5 Curriculum Vitae (M. Abarham, Ph.D.) Page 5/5 PRESENTATIONS 1. Mechanical Engineering Department Seminar, State University of New York Stony Brook, New York, 2012 (Invited Talk). 2. Directions in Engine-Efficiency and Emissions Research (DEER), Dearborn, Michigan, SAE World Congress, Detroit, Michigan, Engineering Graduate Symposium,, Ann Arbor, November Directions in Engine-Efficiency and Emissions Research (DEER), Dearborn, Michigan, SAE World Congress, Detroit, Michigan, Engineering Graduate Symposium,, Ann Arbor, November PATENTS 1. Gaseous Fuel Atmospheric Vortex Engine with Partial Vortical Oxidizer Injection, Iranian Patent Registered in National Invention Registration Office, Tehran, Iran, Method and Apparatus for Measurement and Research on Deposit Layers in EGR Coolers and Similar Heat Exchanger Applications, U.S. patent, in process in the Tech Transfer office of the. LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCES Advising a visiting undergraduate student from RWTH (Aachen, Germany) Summer 2011 on a CFD project, Committee member and organizer, Engineering Graduate Symposium Fall 2010 Technical Session Chair (Energy), Engineering Graduate Symposium Fall 2010 Advising two UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program) students Fall 2010 PROFESSIONAL JOURNAL AND CONFERENCE REVIEW ACTIVITIES ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering Chemical Engineering Science (ELSEVIER) SAE Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress SAE Powertrains, Fuels & Lubricants Meeting PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Society of Automotive Engineering (SAE) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Iranian Society of Mechanical Engineers (ISME) 2008-present 2005-presenrt 2001-present