Constantine Tarawneh, Ph.D.

Rank:

Assistant Professor

Graduate Program Director

Contact Information:

Address:

The University of Texas-Pan American

Mechanical Engineering Department

1201 W. University Dr.

Edinburg, TX 78539-2999

Office: ENB 3.228

Phone: (956) 381-2607

Fax: (956)381-3527

Email: tarawneh@utpa.edu

Website: http://www.engr.panam.edu/~tarawneh/

Education:

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2003
• M.S.E, Mechanical Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1999
• B.S.E, Mechanical Engineering, University of Jordan-Amman 1996 

Research Interests:

• Thermal/Fluid Sciences
• Acoustics and Vibration
• Engineering Measurements and Instrumentation
• Experimental Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics

Selected Publications:

• C. Tarawneh and K. O. Homan.  Measurements of density profile evolution during the stably-stratified filling of an open enclosure.  Int. J. Heat Fluid Flow, accepted for publication, January 2008.
• C. Tarawneh and J. P. Barton.  Experimental analysis of near-field acoustic scattering by rigid spheroidal objects.  Int. J. Acoustics and Vibration, 12 (4): 162-170, December 2007.
• K. D. Cole, C. Tarawneh, and B. M. Wilson.  Analysis of flux-base fins for estimation of heat transfer coefficient.  Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering, submitted, June 2007.
• C. Tarawneh, K. Cole, B. Wilson, and K. Freisen.  A lumped capacitance model for the transient heating of railroad tapered roller bearings.  Proceedings of the Annual ASEE-GSW Regional conference, March 28-30, 2007.
• C. Tarawneh, H. Vasquez, and M. A. Acosta.  An experimental study of potential residential and commercial applications of small-scale solar power systems.  Proceedings of the Annual ASEE-GSW Regional conference, March 28-30, 2007.
• J. A. Kypuros and C. Tarawneh.  Multimodal Assessment Instruments for Dynamics. Proceedings of the Annual ASEE-GSW Regional conference, March 28-30, 2007.
• J. P. Barton, N. L. Wolff, H. Zhang, and C. Tarawneh.  Near-field calculations for a rigid spheroid with an arbitrary incident acoustic field.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113 (3):1216-1222, March 2003.
• C. Tarawneh and K. O. Homan.  Observations of interfacial mixing during the stably-stratified filling of an open chamber.  DFD99 Meeting of the American Physical Society, 1999.

Patent Applications:

• A US Patent Application entitled “Methods and Systems for Analyzing Samples Using Particle Irradiation”, Constantine Tarawneh et al, was filed on March 2^nd, 2007 by Fulbright and Jaworski in Austin, TX [Application No. 11/681,613].