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UT Tyler Professor to Aid US Department of Energy in Developing Economical Building Technologies

August 14, 2020

Media Contact: Beverley Golden
Senior Director of Media Relations
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The University of Texas at Tyler
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The University of Texas at Tyler announced today that Dr. Fredericka Brown, associate professor of mechanical engineering, has been named one of 284 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellows.

Brown will work this fall at the US Department of Energy in the Building Technologies Office. Her yearlong contributions as an AAAS Fellow will be instrumental in the development of cost-effective technologies that can reduce building energy use and support early-stage research and development in component technologies for heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC&R) as well as water heating; and windows and opaque building envelopes.

“We congratulate Dr. Brown in obtaining this prestigious fellowship,” said Dr. Amir Mirmiran, UT Tyler provost and vice president for academic affairs. “The US government will surely benefit from her expertise and contributions while she brings back valuable knowledge to UT Tyler that will also benefit our existing studies and partnerships with the University’s Building Air Quality and Energy (BAQE) Center and TRANE.”

For nearly half a century, the fellowship program has been in place as part of the AAAS mission to advance science and serve society. The program aims to support evidence-based policymaking by leveraging the knowledge and analytical mindset of science and engineering experts; and foster leaders for a strong US science and technology enterprise. Since the program’s inception in 1973, more than 3,400 fellows have supported the executive, judicial and legislative branches of the US government.

Serving UT Tyler since 2003, Brown is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education and American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Her research interests include numerical modeling and simulation of thermal/fluid transport phenomena in physiological and engineered systems; energy sustainability; and engineering education. 

Brown has authored many technical papers that have been presented in national and international forums. She has served on the technical program committees of several international conferences and workshops and served as a reviewer for the National Science Foundation and several journals. Brown has also expanded her research focus to include engineering education and increasing the number of students in the pipeline through P-16 initiatives.

The world’s largest general scientific society, AAAS was founded in 1848 and includes more than 250 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. For additional information about AAAS, visit aaas.org.

 A member of the prestigious UT System, The University of Texas at Tyler focuses on student success and innovative research in the more than 80 undergraduate and graduate degree programs offered to nearly 10,000 students. Classified by Carnegie as a doctoral research institution and by U.S. News and World Report as a national university, UT Tyler has campuses in Tyler, Longview, Palestine and Houston.