Throughout the company's long support of The University of Maryland's research in thermal management and energy conversion the fellowship has gone by several names, including The Trigen-Cinergy Fellowship, The GDF Suez Chuck Edwards Memorial Fellowship, and The Engie Chuck Edwards Memorial Fellowship. Here is a list of recipients from the past several years:
| 2022 | Jangho Yang (Mechanical Engineering) PCM Heat Exchangers | Zhenyuan Mei (Mechanical Engineering) Design of High Performance Air-to-Refrigerant Heat Exchangers with Reduced Charge |
| 2021 |
Cheng-Yi Lee (Mechanical Engineering) Compressor Performance Test and Model Improvement |
Brian O'Malley(Mechanical Engineering) Shape and Topology Optimization for Air-to-Refrigerant Heat Exchangers |
| 2019 |
Adelaide Mei Chun Nolan (Materials Science Engineering) Thermodynamic guidance for interface engineering in an LLZO all-solid-state lithium-ion battery |
James Tancabel (Mechanical Engineering) Design of High Performance Air-to-Refrigerant Heat Exchangers with Reduced Charge |
| 2018 | Joe Baker (Mechanical Engineering), Electrochemical Ammonium Compression | Tao Deng (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering), Interface Engineering Enable High-Rate Solid-State Sodium Metal Batteries |
| 2017 | David Catalini (Mechanical Engineering), Environmentally safe air conditioning: An elasto-caloric heat pump | Aaron Leininger (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Integration of microbial electrolysis cells into wastewater treatment for energy recovery |
| 2016 | Ye Tao (Chemical Engineering), Electrochemical CO2 separation, compression, and reduction | Daniel Dalgo (Mechanical Engineering), Supervisory control and data acquisition for the UMD campus (SCADA-UMD) |
| 2015 | Mohamed Beshr (Mechancial Engineering), Unified Vapor Compression System Steady State Solver with Design Feedback Capability | Radia Eldeeb (Mechanical Engineering), Optimization of Plate Heat Exchanger with Novel Plate Design |
| 2014 | Suxin Qian (Mechanical Engineering), Performance Comparison of the Alternative Solid-State Cooling Technologies to the Vapor Compression Cooling | Zhi Zhang (Mechanical Engineering), Novel Microemulsion-based Absorption Chillers Driven by Waste Heat |
| 2013 | Sahil Popli (Mechanical Engineering), Enhanced performance of compact heat exchangers using evaporative cooling | Long Huang (Mechanical Engineering), Development of a robust microchannel heat exchanger simulation tool |
| 2012 | Bracha Mandel (Mechanical Engineering), Desorber performance in a waste heat powered hybrid absorption vapor-compression system | |
| 2011 | Kyle Gluesenkamp (Mechanical Engineering), Realistic transient load profiles to evaulate performance and evaluate TRNSYS model | Magnus Eisele (Mechanical Engineering), Development of an Expiramental Simulation of the Operating Conditions of Transport Air-Conditioning |
| 2010 | Jiazhen Ling (Mechanical Engineering), Seperate Sensible and Latent Cooling | |
| 2009 | Kyle Gluesenkamp (Mechanical Engineering), Installation and Performance Testing of a Residential CHP System | Varun Singh (Mechanical Engineering), Development of design software for air-to-refrigerant heat exchangers |
| 2008 | Xudong Wang (Mechanical Engineering), Two-stage heat pump systems for cold climates |
Varun Singh (Mechanical Engineering), Implementation of fully arbitrary tube-sheets for novel coil designs |
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