Siamak Farhad
Professor
Biography
August 2024-Present
Professor, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee
March 2021-July 2024
Director of Timken Foundation Center for Precision Manufacturing
August 2023-July 2024
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Akron
August 2019-July 2023
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Akron
October 2013-July 2019
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Akron
2012-2013
Post Doctoral Fellow, Applied Nanao Materials and Clean Energy Lab., University of
Waterloo, Canada
2008-2010
Visiting Researcher, National Research Council (NRC), Canada
Education
- PhD, 2012, University of Waterloo, Canada
- MSc, 2002, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
- BSc, 2000, South-Tehran ‒ Azad University, Iran
Research
- Energy Materials
- Energy Conversion and Storage Systems
- Sustainable and Smart Manufacturing
- Recycling and Remanufacturing
- Precision Manufacturing
Professional Service
- Chair – Mechanical Engineering Division – ASEE
- ASME (Life Member)
- SME (Life Member)
Awards and Recognitions
- Breakthrough Research – National Science Foundation (NSF), 2020.
- Best Paper Award, ASME Energy Sustainability Conference, Florida, 2018.
- Best Idea Award, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC), 2010.
Publications
- Dunham, J. Carfang, C.Y. Yu, R. Ghahremani, R. Farahati, and S. Farhad, Ionic Conductivity of Li6PS5Cl0.5Br0.5 Argyrodite Electrolyte at Different Operating and Pelletizing Pressure and Temperatures, Energies, 2023.
- Hassan, M. Amiriyan, D. Frisone, J. Dunham, R. Farahati, and S. Farhad, Effects of Coating on the Electrochemical Performance of a Nickel-Rich Cathode Active Material, Energies, 15:4886, 2022.
- Kay, S. Farhad, A. Mahajan, R. Esmaeeli, and S.R. Hashemi, Robotic Disassembly of Electric Vehicles’ Battery Modules for Recycling, Energies, 15:4856, 2022.
- Al-Shammari, S. Farhad, Heavy Liquids for Rapid Separation of Cathode and Anode Active Materials from Recycled Lithium-Ion Batteries, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 174:105749, 2021.
- Nazari, S. Farhad, Effects of Nominal Capacity and Electrode Materials on Heat Generation in Lithium-ion Batteries, Applied Thermal Engineering, 125:1501-1517, 2017.
