Dr. Emine Foust

Dr. Emine Foust

Associate Professor

Thermal-Fluid Sciences - Center for Applied Engineering

foust.emine@westpoint.edu

Biography

Dr. Emine C. Foust is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point. She earned her Master of Science and Ph.D degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University. In 2008, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Mechanical Engineering Department at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to West Point, Dr. Foust worked as an Associate Professor at York College of PA for 14 years. She has extensive teaching experience in the areas of fluid mechanics, heat transfer, dynamics, system modeling, and energy systems. At York College of PA, Dr. Foust supervised industry-driven and community-based student research projects. Examples of these projects include a ram pump museum display, a vertical axis river turbine self-start problem, the design of a cooling system for injection molding machines, and the installation of instrumentation on a test bench for a jet engine.

Ongoing Research Projects

Blood transfusion in austere environments


Feasibility study on vertical axis river turbine 


Engineering education

Publications & Presentations

Foust, E.C. “Industry-Based Thermodynamics Case Study on Refrigeration Cycle”, ASME 2022 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 1-3, 2022, Columbus, OH. 


Wyrick, J. and Foust, E. “Impact of Instructional Methods on Student Performance, Engagement, and Knowledge Retention: A Simultaneous Comparison of a Reflective versus Direct Approach to Fluid Mechanics Paper”, ASEE 2022 Annual Conference & Exposition, June 26-29, 2022, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 


Foust, E.C. “Project-Based Learning (PBL) in the First Year Engineering Design Class”, ASEE 2021 Annual Conference & Exposition, July 26-29, 2021, virtual.  


Foust, E.C. and Ruzybayev, I.  “Investigation on Students' Educational Experience with HyFlex Instruction Model in Two Engineering Courses”, ASEE 2021 Annual Conference & Exposition, July 26-29, 2021, virtual.  


Rivera, M., Shook, D. and Foust, E.C. “Experimental and Numerical Investigation Into Vertical Axis Water Turbine Self-Starting Phenomenon”, ASME 2020 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 15-19, 2020, virtual. 


Foust, E.C. “Incorporating Student-Led Design Projects in Instrumentation and Measurements Laboratory”, ASME 2018 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 9-15, 2018, Pittsburgh, PA.


Foust, E.C. “Optimizing Students' Learning Experience in Instrumentation and Measurement Laboratory”, ASEE 2018 125th Annual Conference & Exposition, June 24-27, 2018, Salt Lake City, Utah. 


Celik, E. “Introducing Renewable Energy through Projects”, ASME 2016 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 11-17, 2016, Phoenix, AZ.


Garrison, T., Kiefer, S. and Celik, E. “A Project-Based, Industry-Driven Freshman Design Sequence for Mechanical Engineers”, 6th First Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference, August 7-8, 2014, College Station, TX.


Celik, E., “Interactive Ram Pump Display Project”, ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 9-15, 2012, Houston, Texas, USA.

Celik, E., “Passive Solar Heating Systems”, Center for Sustainable Engineering Educational Modules, 2010. 

Meah K., Garrison, T., Kearns, J., Link, G, Garrison, L., Blanding, W., Celik, E., Kuchnicki, S., Dawson, J., McFarland, B. “An Automated Bottle Filling and Capping Project for Freshman Engineering Students”, 2010 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 20-23, 2010, Louisville, KY.


Lu, Y., Gopalan, B., Celik, E., Katz, J., and Van Wie, D.M., “Stretching of turbulent eddies generates cavitation near a stagnation point”, 2010, Physics of Fluids 22 (4). 


Lu, Y., Gopalan, B., Celik, E., Katz, J., and Van Wie, D.M., “Cavitation Phenomena in a Stagnation Point Flow”, 7th International Symposium on Cavitation, 2009. 


Celik, E., Katz, J., and Van Wie, D., “Investigation of the Formation of Microporous Liquid Fuel”, 2009 ASME Fluids Engineering Meeting, Symposium Paper, FEDSM2009-78546.


Celik, E., Sever, A.C., Kiwata, T., and Rockwell, D. 2007, "Oscillations of Flow Past Perforated and Slotted Plates: Attenuation via a Leading-Edge Ramp", Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 639-651.


Celik, E., Sever C., and Rockwell, D. 2006, "Attenuation of Self-Excited Oscillations of Shear Flow Past a Perforated or Slotted Plate: Effects of Leading-Edge Ramp", Bulletin of the American Physical Society, GP 1.


Celik, E. and Rockwell, D. 2005, "Oscillations of Shear Flow Past a Perforated Plate Bounded by a Cavity: Physical Mechanisms and Attenuation", Bulletin of the American Physical Society, AQ 1.


Celik, E., Sever A.C., and Rockwell, D. 2005, "Self-Sustained Oscillations Past Perforated and Slotted Plates: Effect of Plate Thickness", AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 43, No. 8, pp. 1850-1853.

 

Celik, E. and Rockwell, D. 2004, "Unstable Oscillations of Flow Past a Perforated Plate: Coupled Flow Structure Across Plate", Physics of Fluids, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 1714-1724. 


Celik, E. and Rockwell, D. 2003, "Self-Excited Oscillations of Shear Flow Past a Perforated Plate", Bulletin of the American Physical Society, FM 3.


Celik, E. and Rockwell, D. 2002, "Shear Layer Oscillation Along a Perforated Surface: A Self-Excited Large-Scale Instability", Physics of Fluids, Vol. 14, No. 12, pp. 4444-4448.