Kyle Smith

 Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
Associate Professor
(217) 300-0928
4419 Mechanical Engineering Lab

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Education

  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2007
  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2012

Academic Positions

  • Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 2012 - July 2014
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2014 - August 2021
  • Faculty Affiliate, Computational Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2014 - present
  • Faculty Affiliate, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2016 - present
  • Faculty Affiliate, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 2017 - present
  • Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2021 - present

Research Interests

  • Microstructure and Transport in Heterogeneous and Porous Materials
  • Mass, Charge, Heat, and Fluid Transport in Electrochemical Systems
  • Multi-scale Computational Modeling
  • Electrochemical Separations and Energy Storage

Research Areas

  • Applied Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computation and Applied Math
  • Energy
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Manufacturing
  • Thermo and Heat Transfer
  • Transportation

Selected Articles in Journals

Patents

  • Smith, K.C., V.Q. Do, I.C. Loud, M.H. Rahman, and C. Warden (2024), "Manifold Designs For Uniform Flow," US Patent Application 18/743,616.
  • Smith, K.C. and R. Dmello (2021), “Desalination Devices,” US 11,053,142.

Teaching Honors

  • Fall 2021 Teacher Ranked as Excellent (ME320: Heat Transfer), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Spring 2019 Teacher Ranked as Excellent (ME520: Heat Conduction), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Collins Scholar, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (April 24, 2015)

Research Honors

  • 2024 Dean's Award for Early Innovation for Associate Professor (April 29, 2024)
  • Arnold O. Beckman Award (April 21, 2021)
  • 2018 ISE-Elsevier Prize for Applied Electrochemistry (August 8, 2018)

Recent Courses Taught

  • ME 320 AE1 (ME 320 AE2, ME 320 AL1, ME 320 AL2, ME 320 OL2, ME 320 ZJO) - Heat Transfer
  • ME 412 (CSE 412) - Numerical Thermo-Fluid Mechs
  • ME 512 (ME 598 KCS) - Physicochemical Hydrodynamics
  • ME 520 - Heat Conduction