Professor Satish G. Kandlikar on His 70th Birthday

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Satish G. KandlikarProfessor Satish G. Kandlikar is one of the well-known names in the field of flow boiling. He was born in June 1950 in India. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Marathawada University, India. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai, India. His supervisor was Prof. S. P. Sukhatme. After finishing his Ph.D. in 1975, Prof. Kandlikar became a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT before coming to Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), in Rochester, New York, in 1980. Currently, he is the Gleason Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology. He was the founder of the RIT Thermal Analysis and Microfluidics Laboratory in 1990, which examines essential phenomena related to microscale fluid dynamics and mechanics.