Evelyn N. Wang
Ford Professor of Engineering
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford, 2006
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford, 2001
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, MIT, 2000
Links: MechE Page, Google Scholar, Research Gate | Email: enwang@mit.edu
Office: Room 3-461B, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139
Research Interests
- Heat and mass transfer
- Nanoengineered materials and devices
- Energy conversion, storage and management
- Water harvesting, purification, and conservation
Teaching
- Thermal-Fluids Engineering I (2.005)
- Thermal-Fluids Engineering II (2.006)
- Intermediate Heat Transfer (2.51)
- Advanced Heat Transfer (2.55)
Biography
Professor Evelyn N. Wang is the Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She returns back to MIT from her two-year leave, serving as Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) from 2023. Professor Wang earned her B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and her S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. She was a postdoctoral associate at Bell Laboratories, Alcatel Lucent from 2006-2007. She joined the MIT faculty in 2007. Professor Wang teaches and conducts research in the area of heat and mass transfer for a range of applications from thermal management to energy conversion and storage to water harvesting. Professor Wang served as Head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering from 2018-2022.