William P. King has received the 2009 Bergles-Roshenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer

William P. King has received the 2009 Bergles-Roshenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer. This award is given annually by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers to the top researcher in heat transfer under the age of 36. The award was given “for substantial contributions to the field of mechanical engineering through the development of nanometer-scale thermal processing and thermal measurement techniques, and the new physical insights made possible by these techniques.”

William P. King received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Dayton (1996) and the M.S. (1998) and Ph.D. (2002) degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. During 1999-2001, he spent 16 months in the Micro/NanoMechanics Group of the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. During the years 2002-2006 he was on the faculty at Georgia Tech. At UIUC, his group works on nanoscale thermal and mechanical measurements, engineering of nanomechanical devices, nanomanufacturing, and nanometrology. Dr. King is the winner of the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (2003), the PECASE award from the Department of Energy (2005), and the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (2007). He was named Young Manufacturing Engineer by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (2006). In 2006, Technology Review Magazine named him to the TR35-one of the people under the age of 35 whose innovations are likely to change the world. In 2007 his innovations were selected for an R&D 100 Award and a Micro/Nano 25 Award and in 2008 he won his second R&D 100 Award. He is co-founder of two companies and is a Member of the Defense Sciences Research Council.