Michael M. Khonsari

Michael Khonsari is Dow Chemical Endowed Chair and Professor and Director of the Center for Rotating Machinery (CeRoM) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana State University, Fellow of the ASME. Khonsari got his PhD degree from the University of Texas at Austin. He is known for his research in Tribology and, in particular, application of thermodynamic methods in Tribology. Khonsari received ASME Burt L. Newkirk Award, STLE Presidential Award, Alcoa Foundation Award, and William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow award from University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of several books. Among his known students is Michael Lovell, the Chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.