Dr. Ahsan Choudhuri is Chairman and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of Center for Space Exploration Technology Research (cSETR), a NASA University Research Center at the University of Texas El Paso. He received his degrees from School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma (MS, 1997, PhD, 2000) and from Department of Mechanical Engineering at Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (BSc Engg, 1993).

• Best Paper Award - International Testing and Evaluation Association (01/01/2012-12/31/2012)
• Best Paper Award - International Testing and Evaluation Association (01/01/2012-12/31/2012)
• Best Paper Award - International Testing and Evaluation Association (01/01/2011-12/31/2011)
• Faculty Award Recognition for Research Innovation - NASA (01/01/2011-12/31/2011)
• Outstanding Leadership Award - The University of Texas at El Paso (01/01/2010-12/31/2010)
• Outstanding Performance Award - The University of Texas at El Paso (01/01/2010-12/31/2010)
• Student Best Paper Award - ITEA (01/01/2005-12/31/2005)
• Best Paper Award - America Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (01/01/2004-12/31/2004)
• Winning Design (2nd Place) - NASA Titan Aerial Vehicle Design Project (01/01/2003-12/31/2003)
• NASA-CAL Tech Summer School for Planetary Scientists - NASA (01/01/2001-12/31/2001)
• Outstanding Research Assistant - University of Oklahoma, (01/01/2000-12/31/2000)

• Ph D in Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma (2000)
• MS in Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma (1997)
• BS in Mechanical Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (1993)

• Effect of Pressure on Liquid Nitrogen Flow Boiling in Additively Manufactured Rocket Engine Cooling Channels (2023), Debra Ortega, Alejandro Amador, Alejandro Silva, Ahsan Choudhuri, Md M. Rahman.
• Increasing Thin Film Evaporation of Liquid Nitrogen using Additively Manufactured Micro-Pillar Arrays for Lunar Ice Collection (2023), Mahadi Hasan, Esteban Cook, Nathaniel Regalado, Mohiuddin Ahmad, Ahsan Choudhuri, Md M. Rahman.
• Micro/Nano-Engineered Hierarchical Arrays for Enhanced Thin Film Evaporation of Water (2023), Esteban Rios, Alejandro Amador, Alejandro Silva, Ahsan Choudhuri, Md M. Rahman.
• Rarefied Water Vapor Ionization and Transportation to the Lunar Ice Collector (2023), Brenda Caraveo, Fernando Rivera, Amelia D. Greig, Ahsan Choudhuri, Md M. Rahman.
• Engineered Micropillar Wicks for Heat Pipe Evaporator (2022), Alejandro Amador, Mario Perez, Alejandro Silva Au, Ahsan Choudhuri, Md Mahamudur Rahman.
• Experimental Characterization of Critical Heat Flux and Minimum Film Boiling Heat Flux for Additively Manufactured Cooling Channels for Liquid Nitrogen Saturated Flow Boiling (2022), Debra J. Ortega, Alejandro Amador, Ahsan Choudhuri, Md M. Rahman.
• Sublimated Water Vapor Collection on an Engineered Cold Plate from Icy Lunar Regolith (2022), Mahadi Hasan, Nathaniel I. Jurado, Debra Ortega, Ahsan Choudhuri, Md M. Rahman.
• Thin Film Evaporation of Liquid Nitrogen on Additively Manufactured Micro-Structured Surfaces for Lunar Ice Collection (2022), Mahadi Hasan, Debra Ortega, Ahsan Choudhuri, Md Mahamudur Rahman.
• Increasing Ice Collection Rates on Engineered Cold Plate under Cryogenic Vacuum Conditions (2021), Nathaniel I. Jurado, Aaron D. Amato, Priscilla A. Mendoza, Emmanuel Negron-Ortiz, Itzel A. Torres, Alejandro Amador, Md Mahamudur Rahman, Amelia D. Greig, Ahsan Choudhuri.
• Increasing Water Vapor Transportation Rates from Lunar Regolith by Utilizing an Ionization Method (2021), Amelia D. Greig, Nathaniel I. Jurado, Priscilla A. Mendoza, Emmanuel Negron-Ortiz, Zachary Oropeza, Yolanda Sanchez, Md M. Rahman, Ahsan Choudhuri.
• Methodology Reevaluation of a Test Campaign for a 1N AF-M315E Thruster (2020), Jonathan A. Valenzuela Brok, Pilar Gonzalez Rueda Flores, Raul Cuevas, Amelia D. Greig, Joel Quintana, Ahsan Choudhuri.
• Roughness Augmented High Pressure Flow Boiling Heat Transfer Enhancement using LN2 and LCH4 on Additively Manufactured Rocket Engine Regenerative Cooling Channels (2020), Debra Ortega, Raul E. Palacios, Gerardo Olvera, Linda Hernandez, Jason R. Adams, Md M. Rahman, Ahsan Choudhuri.
• Analysis of Powder Removal Methods for EBM Manufactured Ti-6AL-4V Parts Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium – An Additive Manufacturing Conference (2019), Amit J. Lopes, L Ramos, David Saenz, Philip A. Morton, Cesar Terrazas, Ahsan Choudhuri, Ryan B. Wicker.
• The Effect of Surface Roughness on LCH4 Boiling Heat Transfer Performance of Conventionally and Additively Manufactured Rocket Engine Regenerative Cooling Channels (2019), Linda Hernandez, Raul Palacios, Debra Ortega, Jason R. Adams, Luz I. Bugarin, MD M. Rahman, Ahsan Choudhuri.
• Thermoanalytical studies on the thermal and catalytic decomposition of aqueous hydroxylammonium nitrate solution COMBUSTION AND FLAME 193 (2018), Alan A. Esparza, Robert E. Ferguson, Ahsan Choudhuri, Norman D. Love, Evgeny Shafirovich.

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