Dr. Younes Shabany

Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
San Jose State University

One Washington Square
San Jose, California 95192-0087


Director, Engineering & Design and Thermal Architect
Technology Leadership Group
Flextronics
2090 Fortune Drive
San Jose, California 95131


Telephone: (408) 576-6765
E-mail: yshabany@yahoo.com

Courses Taught

Education

Professional Experiences

Publications

 

Courses Taught:

ME109: Heat Transfer in Electronics
ME211: Advanced Heat Transfer

ME230: Advanced Mechanical Engineering Analysis

 

Education

1989

BS, Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran

1994

MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada

Thesis Title: Turbulent Natural Convection Boundary Layers in an Absorbing and Emitting Gas

1999

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

Thesis Title: Development and Analysis of a Well-Posed Model for the Turbulent Dispersion Tensor

Professional Experiences

Flextronics International, Corporate Technology Group, San Jose, CA     

·         Led thermal architecture, design and technology development activities across multiple segments and business units

·         Led thermal engineers in Flextronics’ worldwide sites on their thermal design activities

·         Worked with product managers and their cross-functional engineering teams on a variety of infrastructure, consumer, automobile, medical and power electronic ODM and CDM products

·         Was responsible for leading design teams towards feasible thermal/mechanical solutions for high power density electronic equipment

·         Evaluated new thermal management technologies and their potential applications in electronic equipment

·         Established an advanced airflow and thermal test lab for Flextronics Corporate Technology Group

 

Applied Thermal Technologies, Santa Clara, CA                                                

·         Consulted with upper management and prepared business plans and annual budgets

·         Managed teams of local and remote engineers in their thermal design efforts

·         Worked with engineering managers in over 25 companies to design appropriate cooling solutions for their products within the electrical, mechanical, industrial design and environmental limitations

·         Collaborated with mechanical and industrial design firms to provide integrated thermal/mechanical solutions to common clients

·         Prepared and taught short courses and workshops on thermal management of electronics

·         Worked in multi-discipline engineering teams in over 35 companies as the engineer responsible for thermal design of their products

·         Performed system-level, board-level and package-level thermal analyses using appropriate combination of analytical techniques, experimental methods and numerical tools

·         Designed cooling solutions for over 50 products including telecom and networking equipment, desktop and laptop computers, biomedical equipment, and consumer products

·         Interacted with electrical and mechanical engineers in semiconductor companies to understand thermal characteristics of their devices

·         Interacted with suppliers of thermal management products (heat sink, heat pipe, fan, thermal interface material, etc.) to come up with the best thermal solutions using off-the-shelf or custom products

 

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

·         Developed a method for solving linear matrix equations

·         Developed an algebraic stress model to predict temperature and heat transfer in turbulent flows

·         Modified a Computational Fluid Dynamics code to include this model and used the code to study the accuracy of the model predictions in turbulent boundary layers and channel flows

 

Department of Mechanical Engineering, UBC

·         Developed a two-dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics code to study the effects of gas absorptivity and emissivity on heat transfer in a turbulent natural convection boundary layer

 

Sazeh Consultant Engineers, Tehran, Iran                                                         

·         Worked with a team of mechanical, electrical, chemical and structural engineers to design a natural gas injection plant

·         Prepared specifications and data sheets for turbomachinery equipment including gas turbines and compressors needed for the plant, analyzed the performance of the equipment from different vendors, and selected the best equipment

 

Iran Radiator Company, Tehran, Iran                                                                

·         Designed and built a small wind tunnel

 

Publications

·         Y. Shabany, “Radiation Heat Transfer from Plate-Fin Heat Sinks”, Proceedings of 24th IEEE Semi-Therm Symposium, March 16 – 20, 2008, San Jose, CA

 

·         Y. Shabany, “A Novel Airflow Management System with Redundant Fan Field Replaceable Units”, Proceedings of IPACK2007, July 8 – 12, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

 

·         Y. Shabany, “A PCM-Filled Heat Sink for an LED-Based Dental Device”, Proceedings of IPACK2007, July 8 – 12, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

 

·         Y. Shabany, “High-Level Packaging Options for Outdoor Remote Units”, Proceedings of 23rd IEEE Semi-Therm Symposium, March 2007.

 

·         N. Sadeghi, F. Barez and Y. Shabany, “A New Approach to Model Axial Fans in Commercial CFD Tools”, Proceedings of IPACK2005, July 17 – 22, 2005, San Francisco, California

 

·         W. Liu, M. Lee, Y. Shabany and M. Asheghi, “A Novel Scheme in Thermal Modeling of Printed Circuit Boards”, Proceedings of IPACK2005, July 17 – 22, 2005, San Francisco, California

 

·         Y. Shabany, “Effects of Boundary Conditions and Source Dimensions on the Effective Thermal Conductivity of a Printed Circuit Board”, Proceedings of IPACK03, July 6 – 11, 2003, Maui, Hawaii

 

·         B. Puranik and Y. Shabany, “Optimum Airflow Management for Multi-Board Rack-Mount Equipment”, Proceedings of IPACK03, July 6 – 11, 2003, Maui, Hawaii

 

·         M. K. Berhe and Y. Shabany, “The Effectiveness of Solar Shield for Outdoor Equipment” Proceedings of IPACK03, July 6 – 11, 2003, Maui, Hawaii

 

·         Y. Shabany, ``Component Size and Effective Thermal Conductivity of Printed Circuit Boards'', ITherm 2002, May 29 - June 1, 2002

 

·         Y. Shabany and P. A. Durbin, ``Applications of a Well-Posed Model for the Turbulent Diffusivity Tensor'', 1999 ASME/JSME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, July 18-23, 1999, San Francisco, California.

 

·         M. Behnia, S. Parneix, Y. Shabany, P. A. Durbin, ``Numerical Study of Turbulent Heat Transfer in Confined and Unconfined Impinging Jets'', Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow. Vol. 20, No. 1, February 1999, pp. 1-9.

 

·         P. A. Durbin, Y. Shabany, S. Parneix and M. Behnia, ``Connection of Lagrangian Dispersion Theory to Heat Transfer", 2nd International Symposium on Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer, K. Hanjalic and T. W. J. Peeters (Editors), Delft University Press, 1997, pp. 47-54.

 

·         Y. Shabany and P. A. Durbin, ``On Explicit Algebraic Scalar Flux Approximation'', AIAA Journal, Vol. 35, No. 6, June 1997, pp. 985-989.

 

·         P. Durbin and Y. Shabany, ``Toward Consistent Formulation of Reynolds Stress and Scalar Flux Closures'', Fluid Dynamics Research, Vol. 20, 1997, pp. 115-125.

 

·         Y. Shabany, M. Iqbal and E. G. Hauptmann, ``Turbulent Natural Convection Boundary Layers in an Absorbing and Emitting Gas'' , HTD-Vol. 318, Heat Transfer in Turbulent Flows ASME 1995, pp. 21-27.