Alan McGaughey
Trustee Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Courtesy Appointment, Materials Science and Engineering
Alan McGaughey leads the Nanoscale Transport Phenomena Laboratory, which seeks to understand the transport of mass, momentum, and energy at the atomic level by studying the behavior of phonons, photons, electrons, and fluid particles. Their research is based in mechanical engineering and incorporates knowledge from physics, materials science, and chemistry. They develop and apply molecular- and meso-scale simulation techniques, and collaborate closely with experimental research groups.
He received a Bachelor of Engineering from McMaster University (1998), a Master of Applied Science from the University of Toronto (2000), and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (2004). He came to Carnegie Mellon University in 2005 after a post-doc at the University of Florida. He won the Teare Teaching Award in 2014 and and has been voted Professor of the Year by the MechE seniors three times (2012, 2015, 2017).
Nanoscale Heat Transfer: Thermal Conductivity Prediction
Education
2004 Ph.D., University of Michigan
2000 MS., University of Toronto
1998 Bachelor of Engineering, McMaster University
Affiliations
Media mentions
College of Engineering names 2019 faculty award winners
The College of Engineering has announced the winners of the 2019 faculty awards. They include: Alan McGaughey, Paulina Jaramillo, Jana Kainerstorfer, Reeja Jayan, Carmel Majidi, Jonathan Malen, and Vijayakumar Bhagavatula.
Scott Institute
Eight faculty receive Scott Institute seed grants for energy research
The Scott Institute recently selected awardees from the College of Engineering for its seventh round of seed grants for energy research.
Mechanical Engineering
Seeding energy research
Three faculty members in the Department of Mechanical Engineering received Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation’s Seed Grants for Energy Research.
Wang wins best poster award at IMECE
Ph.D. student Xiaoman Wang earned the award for Best Poster Presentation in the Society-Wide Micro and Nanotechnology Forum at the International Mechancial Engineering Congress & Exposition in Pittsburgh, Pa. Wang is a student of Professor of Mechanical Engineering Alan McGaughey.
McGaughey named faculty chair-elect
MechE’s Alan McGaughey was appointed the College of Engineering faculty chair-elect.
Nature Materials
Malen and McGaughey published in Nature Materials
MechE Professors Johnathan Malen and Alan McGaughey published an article in Nature Materials on their team's discovery of the effects of rotational disorder on thermal conductivity in superatomic structures.