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Dr. Monem H. Beitelmal
Principal Scientist
Dr. Monem H. Beitelmal
Principal Scientist
Educational Qualifications
Doctorate of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Entity
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute
Biography
Dr. Monem Beitelmal is a Principal Scientist at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute. Dr. Monem previously served as an associate professor of mechanical engineering with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Santa Clara University (SCU) from January 2009 till December 2013. Before joining SCU, Dr. Beitelmal spent eight years at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto California. As a member of the HP Labs Smart Data Center research team, his research work covered various areas in energy and sustainability from smart thermal control in systems and data centers to district cooling systems. At SCU, Dr. Beitelmal taught several undergraduate and graduate courses such as thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, modern instrumentation, thermal systems design, energy conversion, equilibrium thermodynamics and gas dynamics.
Doctorate of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California PhD Thesis: “Effects of Surface Roughness and Nozzle Inclination on Jet Impingement Heat Transfer.”
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Davis, California M. S. Thesis: “Theoretical Modeling of the Effects of Small Gravitational Levels on Droplet Gasification.”.
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
University of Portland, Portland, Oregon
- Energy Efficiency
- Thermal Management and Control
- Data centers power and cooling
- Thermal sciences
- Heat transfer
Energy Efficiency and Value-Added Products Portfolio Lead
Leading a number of research and development projects in system integration and energy efficiency in built environment. Current Projects (LPI) • (SMART) Energy Efficient Thermostat, • District cooling energy performance optimization • Solar-powered hybrid (membrane/thermal) water desalination system.
2014 – Now
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California This is a full-time faculty non-tenure track position with responsibilities that include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Mechanical Engineering, developing new courses, designing and teaching laboratory experiments, advising and mentoring engineering students, participating in School of Engineering activities and developing research proposals for external funding. • Water Desalination Project The goal of this senior design project was to build a scalable water purification system that is fully powered by solar energy. This project is partially funded by the Center of Science, Technology and Society and the School of Engineering at SCU. • New Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency Metrics Developed new energy efficiency metrics to facilitate proper evaluation of data centers power consumption. These metrics can be used to help reduce the cost of operation and to provision data centers power and cooling resources. • Waste-to-Energy Processes This project is conducted in collaboration with a start-up company (Enventix Inc). The goal of this research was to develop a novel reactor that uses bio-waste as a fuel for power generation.
2008 – 12/2013
Research Scientist
Hewlett Packard Research Laboratories, Palo Alto, California A lead researcher in the Sustainable IT Ecosystem Laboratory with responsibilities that include research and development of new cooling technologies at the chip, system and rack levels, development of new research areas and patentable inventions in thermal cooling solutions. Other responsibilities included providing thermal/mechanical technologies roadmap consultation to various HP business units. Key projects • Feasibility study and analysis of fuel cells and PV hybrid system that would be required to power an HPL data center. • Static smart cooling development (CFD modeling and analysis). • Dynamic Smart Cooling (flexible infrastructure distributed sensing and control). • Smart data center robot demonstration (navigating sensors platform). • Design and building of two-phase Loop Thermosyphon system. • Design of single-phase cooling loop system and rack levels. • Refrigeration (combined) cycle design for system, rack and data center level analysis. • Impinging air jet solution designed for system and rack levels integration. • Developed the training program and chaired the training workshops for the first and only HP Dynamic Smart Cooling technology transfer. • Developed the quick assessment calculator (an analytical tool for expedient energy analysis) currently used by Hewlett-Packard Services and marketing teams to estimate potential energy savings and carbon footprint reduction.
08/2000 – 12/2008
“Energy performance investigation of a district cooling system,” WIT Transaction on Ecology and the Environment, Vol 205
“Numerical investigation of data center raised-floor plenum,” ASME/IMECE,
Off-the grid solar-powered portable desalination system,” Applied Thermal Engineering Journal,
“Servers and Data Centers Energy Performance Metrics,” Energy and Buildings Journal,
Kiriu, R., “Solar-Powered Water Distillation System,” ASME/IMECE 2013 San Diego, CA
- 2007 HP Award for outstanding efforts to train and educate important HP customers.
- 2007 HP Award for outstanding efforts to the initial Dynamic Smart Cooling company-wide training and providing the background for the birth of DSC.
- 2007 HP Award for expedient, exacting and execution on Dynamic Smart Cooling train the trainers program.
- 2006 HP Award for business impact.
- 2006 HP Award for an outstanding effort in organizing/training product division partners.
- 2005 HP Award for expedient, exacting and execution on Smart Data Center.
- 2004 HP Award for technical help with strategic customer project.
- 2004 HP Award for chairing the first HP high density data center workshop and heightened awareness of HP Labs research and technology.
- 2004 HP Award for expedient, exacting and execution.
- 2003 HP Award for contribution to the HP technical summer camp.
- 2003 HP Outstanding achievement award.
- 2002 HP Award for spirit of HP Labs.
- Graduated with distinction, SCU, 2000