Gregory Michna

Title

Associate Professor

Office Building

Crothers Engineering Hall

Office

224

Mailing Address

Crothers Engineering Hall 224
Mechanical Engineering-Box 2219
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007

Social Media Links

• LinkedIn

Education

• B.S. in mechanical engineering | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2001
• Ph.D. in mechanical engineering | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2006

Academic Interests

• Heat transfer
• Convective heat transfer
• Fluid mechanics
• Computational fluid mechanics (CFD)

Academic Responsibilities

• EM 331: Fluid Mechanics
• ME 412/512: Internal Combustion Engines
• ME 415: Heat Transfer
• ME 418/518: Design of Thermal Systems
• ME 476: Thermo-Fluids Laboratory
• ME 703: Thermo-Fluid Energy Systems
• ME 711: Advanced Heat Transfer I

Committees and Professional Memberships

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)

Awards and Honors

• 2018, Timothy J. Nichols Undergraduate Advising Award, South Dakota State University.
• 2017, Students’ Choice Award (Teacher of the Year), Department of Mechanical Engineering, South Dakota State University.
• 2015, Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering Teacher of the Year, South Dakota State University.
• 2012, Outstanding Reviewer, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer.
• 2012, Students’ Choice Award (Teacher of the Year), Department of Mechanical Engineering, South Dakota State University.
• 2010, Students’ Choice Award (Teacher of the Year), Department of Mechanical Engineering, South Dakota State University.

Grants

• Gregory J. Michna (PI) and Stephen Gent (Co-PI), “CFD Analysis of Fluid, Heat, and Impurity Flows in DUNE FAR Detector to Address Additional Design Considerations – Phase 4,” Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), 2021, $244,079.
• Todd Letcher (PI) and Gregory J. Michna (Co-PI), “In-Situ Resource Utilization NASA Design Challenges,” South Dakota Space Grant Consortium (SDSGC), 2021, $140,213.
• Gregory J. Michna (PI) and Stephen Gent (Co-PI), “CFD Analysis of Fluid, Heat, and Impurity Flows in DUNE FAR Detector to Address Additional Design Considerations – Phase 3,” Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), 2019, $137,597.
• Gregory J. Michna (PI) and Stephen P. Gent (Co-PI), “CFD Analysis of Fluid, Heat, and Impurity Flows in DUNE FAR Detector to Address Additional Design Considerations – Phase 2,” Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), 2018, $109,445.
• Gregory J. Michna (PI) and Todd M. Letcher (Co-PI), “Startup of South Dakota State University CubeSat Club,” South Dakota Space Grant Consortium (SDSGC), 2017, $10,007.
• Todd M. Letcher (PI) and Gregory J. Michna (Co-PI), “Advanced Materials for 3D Printable Heat Exchangers,” South Dakota Space Grant Consortium (SDSGC), 2017, $11,658.
• Todd Letcher (PI) and Gregory J. Michna (Co-PI), “3D Printable Heat Exchangers to Enhance Student Learning Related to Space Science,” South Dakota Space Grant Consortium, 2016, $80,766. 
• Gregory J. Michna (PI), and Stephen P. Gent (Co-PI), “Further CFD Analysis of Fluid, Heat, and Impurity Flows in DUNE FAR Detector,” Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) – Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), 2016, $49,955. 
• Stephen Gent (PI) and Gregory J. Michna (Co-PI), “Bio-Oils from Oilseed Byproduct Feedstock,” North Central Regional Sun Grant Center (U.S. Department of Transportation), 2013, $187,500.
• Gregory J. Michna (PI), “Toward Realization of Pulsating Heat Pipe Electronics Cooling Systems,” South Dakota Board of Regents Competitive Research Grant Program, 2013, $99,118.

Work Experience

• 2015-Present, Associate Professor, South Dakota State University
• 2009-2015, Assistant Professor, South Dakota State University
• 2007-2009, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 2006-2007, Lecturer, Iowa State University

Areas of Research

• Heat and mass transfer
• Convective heat transfer
• Electronics cooling
• Thermodynamics

Publications

Journal Publications

1. 2011, Michna, G. J., Browne, E. A., Peles, Y., and Jensen, M. K., “The Effect of Area Ratio on Microjet Array Heat Transfer,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 54(9-10), pp. 1782-1790.
2. 2010, Browne, E. A., Michna, G. J., Jensen, M. K., and Peles, Y., “Microjet Array Single-Phase and Flow Boiling Heat Transfer with R134a,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 53(22-23), pp. 5027-5034.
3. 2010, Browne, E. A., Michna, G. J., Jensen, M. K., and Peles, Y., “Experimental Investigation of Microjet Array Heat Transfer,” Journal of Heat Transfer, 132(4), 041013.
4. 2009, Michna, G. J., Browne, E. A., Peles, Y., and Jensen, M. K., “Single-Phase Microscale Jet Stagnation Point Heat Transfer,” Journal of Heat Transfer, 131(11), 111402.
5. 2007, Michna, G. J., Jacobi, A. M., and Burton, R. L, “An Experimental Study of the Friction Factor and Mass Transfer Performance of an Offset-Strip Fin Array at Very High Reynolds Numbers,” Journal of Heat Transfer, 129(9), pp. 1134-1140.

Conference Publications

1. 2019, Pereira, L., Letcher, T., and Michna, G. J., “The Effects of 3D Printing Parameters and Surface Roughness on Convective Heat Transfer Performance,” Proceedings of the 2019 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, 15-18 July, 2019, Bellevue, Washington, USA.
2. 2019, Raslan, A., Michna, G., and Ciarcia, M., “Thermal Simulation of a CubeSat,” Proceedings of the 19th Annual IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT2019), 20-22 May, 2019, Brookings, South Dakota, USA.
3. 2018, Michna, G. J. and Letcher, T., “Designing 3-D Printed Heat Exchangers in a Senior-level Thermal Systems Course,” Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 24-27 June, 2018, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
4. 2018, Letcher, T., Michna, G. J., VerSteeg, J. D., and Michna, S. M., “Stimulating Interest in First-Year Mechanical Engineering Students through Design Modeling/Analysis and CNC Manufacturing,” Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 24-27 June, 2018, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
5. 2016, Hoesing, M. P. and Michna, G. J., “Oscillating Heat Pipe Performance with Modified Evaporator Geometries,” ICNMM2016-7980, Proceedings of the ASME 2016 14th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, 10-14 July, 2016, Washington, DC, USA.