Het Mevada Receives Distinguished Graduate Endowed Fellowship

Congratulations to Center for Environmental Energy Engineering (CEEE) graduate research assistant Het Mevada on receiving the Dr. Reinhard Radermacher Distinguished Graduate Endowed Fellowship for Energy Innovation for 2024-25. The fellowship is awarded annually and supports one CEEE graduate student for one year. Students are selected on academic merit.

Mevada is finishing his third year with CEEE and is pursuing a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. His research focuses on elastocaloric cooling, which uses solid metals as refrigerants and has zero direct global warming emissions. Elastocaloric cooling uses a special class of compressible metals called shape memory alloys that release heat when compressed and absorb heat when relaxed.

The climate-friendly cooling solution was named one of the top 10 breakthrough technologies of 2024 by the World Economic Forum and was identified by Nature as one of seven technologies to watch in 2025.

Mevada is a fellow in the A. James Clark School of Engineering’s Future Faculty Program and has served as a teaching assistant for ENME701 – Sustainable Energy Conversion and the Environment. He aspires to work as an engineering professor in his native India.

Former CEEE Director Reinhard Radermacher, who passed away this year, generously founded the Distinguished Graduate Endowed Fellowship for Energy Innovation in 2018 as a way to support students who are committed to innovating the next generation of sustainable heating and cooling solutions.

The Dr. Reinhard Radermacher Distinguished Graduate Endowed Fellowship for Energy Innovation is one of two University of Maryland funds that Dr. Radermacher’s family has encouraged be supported in his memory, to honor his legacy. Donations can be made here.

Published May 9, 2025