The
2008 Best Poster Presentation Award offered by the American Society for
Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) was granted to
Professor Nesreen Ghaddar, a senior faculty member in the Department of
Mechanical Engineering, and her co-authors Amer Kiblawi and Ralph Saade, 2009
graduates in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, in recognition for their
work on "Design Charts for Combined Chilled Ceiling Displacement Ventilation
System". The work was performed at the Renewable Energy Lab of the Faculty of
Engineering and Architecture.