KennethDiller

About
Ken Diller has been an engineering professor at UT Austin since 1973. He is the former founding chairman of the UT Biomedical Engineering Department and previously served as chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Department (these administrative appointments span a 19-year period). His primary areas of research focus on the broad field of biomedical heat transfer, with current studies focused on temperature control to enhance the ability to have consistent quality sleep, to lower blood pressure overnight to reduce the incidence of vascular diseases, and the manipulation of body core temperature to keep patients warm during surgery or to cool patients suffering a loss of brain blood perfusion following a heart attack, stroke or traumatic brain injury

Diller has published about 300 refereed articles and book chapters, has three dozen filed or issued patents, and has edited or authored sixteen books on these and other topics. He has been elected Fellow of the ASME, BMES, AIMBE, AAAS and the Society for Cryobiology, and has won the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, ASME Bioengineering Lissner Award and ASME/AIChE Max Jacob Heat Transfer Award. He was elected an Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Graduate of Ohio State University. He has been a faculty advisor for more than 40 years for the UT organization Christian Students on Campus, during which time he has mentored thousands of students during their time at UT.

As a UT professor, Diller is very passionate about his teaching, which covers a spectrum of courses and students ranging from incoming students to advanced Ph.D. students. For more than 30 years, Diller has held a Life Fellow position in Clare Hall College at the University of Cambridge in England.

Educational Qualifications
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S., Ohio State University
B.S., Ohio State University

Select Awards & Honors

• Heat Transfer Memorial Award – American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• Bioengineering Lissner Award – American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• Max Jacob Heat Transfer Award – American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) fellow
• Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) fellow
• American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) fellow
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow
• Society for Cryobiology fellow

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