Justin Poland
Emeritus Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
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Dr. Poland teaches junior/senior level required courses in mechanical laboratory experimentation, design projects and technical elective courses in thermodynamics and heat transfer applied to heating and cooling of buildings, solar energy systems and combustion engines. He also teaches graduate level courses in viscous fluid mechanics and advanced thermodynamics (applied to combustion). The technical courses he offers includes:
- Refrigeration and Air-conditioning System Design
- Solar-Thermal Engineering
- Thermodynamic Design of Engines
His research interests are in numerically modeling energy saving techniques for buildings, appliances, and machines. Recent work has focused on performance of phase-change-material wallboard and performance of thin ice banks as refrigerant condenser or evaporator.
- Influence of phase-change material (PCM) wallboard on heat load to air conditioned spaces with insulated wood stud-wall and insulated wood joist ceiling construction
- Solar energy systems for thermal heating – building ventilation air, cooking food
- Thermodynamics of re-vaporization of condensed moisture in two-dimensional, supersonic wind tunnel testing
- Heat transfer in double-glazed windows with baffles between the glazings
Professional Memberships
- ASHRAE (Member)
- ASME (Life Member)
Principal Sponsors
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- McNair Scholars Program of the University of Maine’s College of Education
External Engagements
- Consultant, Maine Department of Transportation – design and construction of a solar preheated ventilation air system, 1981
- Faculty Research Fellow, USAF Arnold Engineering Development Center, 1985
Education
Ph.D., in Mechanical Engineering from University of Colorado, 1979
Emeritus Associate Professor
