Michael Hughes
Director of Faculty Development, Faculty Practitioner, Rensselaer at Hartford
Programs Taught
Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering
Year Joined RPI
2015
Other Professional Experiences
- Sturm-Ruger & Co. – Academic leadership, researcher, invited speaker, reviewer:
- International Institute of Microelectronics (Madrid), 2017 Teaching & Learning Colloquium
- NSF Capital Region I-Corp Site Program
- ASME International ME Congress & Exposition
- ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference
Education
- Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Mechanical Engineering
- B.Sc., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Mechanical Engineering
- A.S., Hudson Valley Community College, Engineering Science
Research Focus
- Luminescent Solar Concentrators
- Thermal Radiation Heat Transfer
- Solar Energy Harvesting
Contact Information
Select Works
- Highly Efficient Luminescent Solar Concentrators Employing Commercially Available Luminescent Phosphors, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells (2017)
- Method for Modeling Radiative Transport in Luminescent Particulate Media, Applied Optics (2016)
- Analysis of a Luminescent Solar Concentrator Coupled to Ultra-Thin Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells, Solar Energy (2015)
- Performance Comparison of Wedge Shaped and Planar Luminescent Solar Concentrators, Renewable Energy (2013)