2015 Lindback
2015 Lindback
2015 Lindback Award Winner: Krishan Kumar Bhatia
Dr. Krishan Kumar Bhatia was born into a large and loving family in Wilmington, Delaware. His father sparked his interests of vehicles and all things mechanical at a young age. Dr. Bhatia earned his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 2000. After UD, he received his MS and eventually PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State in 2004. During this time, he helped engineer and build two diesel hybrid-electric SUVs and a 100% electric Pontiac Fiero.For the past 10 years, Dr. Bhatia has been a professor at Rowan University in the College of Engineering teaching everything under the sun, but his favorite classes to teach are Thermal-Fluid Sciences, Advanced Heat Transfer, and of course, Automotive Engineering. His area of specialization and research is hybrid and electric vehicle powertrain design and vehicle aerodynamics.
Away from Rowan, Dr. Bhatia is usually found outside playing with his children or working on one of his half-dozen cars and tractors. He also spends an unhealthy amount of time looking forward to his favorite day of the year, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He owes everything to the love he receives from his big extended family, wife, two children, and countless Rowan engineering students.
