Ronald J. Pederson Associate Professor and Associate Department Head

You can call or write to:

Ronald J. Pederson
New Mexico State University
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
POBox 30001/Dept 3450
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001

Voice Phone: (575) 646-2014
FAX Phone: (575) 646-6111

You can reach me by e-mail at: rpederso@nmsu.edu

Education

• Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering (Heat Transfer/Math) - University of Minnesota, 1976
• M.S. Aeronautical Engineering - University of Arizona, 1969
• B.S. Mechanical Engineering - South Dakota State University, 1967

Professional Experience

• Jan/97 - Sept/97 - Acting Department Head, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
• 1994 - Present Associate Department Head, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
• 1984 - Present Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
• 1977 - 1984 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.
• Summer 1981 DOE/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow, Solar Energy Research Institute, Golden, Colorado.
• 1976 - 1977 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
• 1973 - 1976 Doctoral Candidate, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• Summer 1967 & 1968 Research Engineer, Pratt and Whitney Aircraft, East Hartford, Connecticut.

Recent Publications

• Guanji, M.V., Pederson, R.J., and Leslie, I.H., "Natural Convection over a Finite Heated Disk," Presented at the 5th Annual AIAA/ASME Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, Seattle, June, 1990.
• Pederson, R.J., "Numerical analysis in the Heat Transfer Laboratory," Presented at the 1990 Annual ASEE Conference and appearing in Proceedings, Toronto, Canada, June 1990.
• Hardee, H.C., Ballard, S., and Pederson, R.J., "Measurement of Long-Term Atmospheric Warming Using Subsurface Heat Flow Measurements", Presentation at the 1990 Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, December, 1990.
• Pederson, R.J., Borger, M.A., and Carper, H.J., "Effects of Flow Velocity and Electrode Divergence Angle on the Performance of a Repetitively Pulsed, Gas Blown Spark Gap Switch," IEEE Conference Record of 1984 Sixteenth Pulsed Power Modulator Symposium, June, 1984.
• Pederson, R.J. and Carper, H.J., "The Influence of Fluid Mechanics on the Behavior of Gas-Blown Spark Gas-Blown Spark Gap Switches," Final Report, AFOSR Grant No. 82-0327, November, 1983.
• Carper, H.J., Maxwell, T.T., and Pederson, R.J., "The Influence of Field Mechanics on the Behavior of Gas-Blown Spark Gap Switches," Final Report, AFOSR Grant No. 82-0327, March, 1985.
• Pederson, R.J. and Carper, H.J., "Flow Visualization in a Gall-Blown Spark Gap," IEEE Conference Record of 1982 Fifteenth Pulsed Power Modulator Symposium, 82 CH1785-5, June, 1982.
• Pederson, R.J. and May, E.K., "Flow Instability during Direct Steam Generation in a Line-Focus Solar Collector System," Solar Energy Research Institute Report SERI/TR-632-1354, March, 1982.
• Pederson, R.J. and Sparrow, E.M., "Heat Transfer from a Cylinder in Crossflow Situated in a Turbulent Pipe Flow," Journal of Heat Transfer, 99, No. 3, pp. 425-432, 1977.

Scientific Societies

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• American Society of Engineering Education

Honors and Awards

• Donald C. Roush Award for Teaching Excellence, NMSU, 1994
• Member, Tau Beta Pi, 1992
• Most Helpful Professor Award, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, NMSU, 1985
• Outstanding Professor Award, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, TTU, 1984
• Outstanding Professor Award, College of Engineering, TTU, 1982
• Member, Pi Tau Sigma