The Department of Mechanical Engineering welcomes Dr. Beasley into the position of Interim Department Chair. "Dr. Donald Beasley, Professor and Associate Department Chair, will serve as Interim Chair until a permanent Department Chair is appointed. Dr. Beasley has a very strong commitment to the Department, and I am certain that the Department will be in very good hands," said Dr. Imtiaz Haque, professor and former department chair.
Dr. Beasley received his PhD from University of Michigan in 1983. He joined the faculty in Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University the same year. Dr. Beasley¹s research interests are in the areas of fluid mechanics and heat transfer, including flow and heat transfer in rod bundles, multiphase flows, as well as the application of nonlinear dynamics and chaos in the thermal fluid sciences. He has more than 100 refereed conference and journal papers, and is co-author of a leading textbook in instrumentation and measurements. Dr. Beasley is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and an ABET program evaluator. He serves as Chair, K-8 Technical Committee of the ASME Heat Transfer Division: Theory and Fundamental Research.