Rate My Professor Hossein Sojoudi

Dr. Hossein Sojoudi serves as Professor and Chair of the Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering (MIME) Department at the University of Toledo, following his successful tenure as Interim Chair. He also acts as Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) and Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) programs in the College of Engineering. Prior to UToledo, Dr. Sojoudi was a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with joint appointments in the Mechanical and Chemical Engineering Departments. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2012, with a dissertation titled "The synthesis, doping, and characterization of graphene films."

Dr. Sojoudi’s research specializes in surface science and interfacial thermal-fluid engineering, with applications in energy systems and mitigation of atmospheric icing. Key areas include icephobic and snowphobic surfaces, electrohydrodynamics for emulsion formation and electrocoalescence, nanoporous microstructures for droplet dynamics and freezing delay, and polymeric interfaces via chemical vapor deposition. He has authored over 80 peer-reviewed journal papers and conference proceedings, including "Durable Elastomeric Snowphobic Surfaces" (ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2024), "A flexible surface-mountable sensor for ice detection and non-destructive measurement of liquid water content in snow" (Cold Regions Science and Technology, 2022), "Contactless Method for Electrocoalescence of Water in Oil" (ACS Omega, 2021), and "Ultrathin high-resolution flexographic printing using nanoporous stamps" (Science Advances, 2016). His work includes six U.S. patents and has been cited more than 5,400 times. Dr. Sojoudi has received the Mid-American Conference Outstanding Faculty Award for Student Success (2025), UToledo President’s Award for Excellence in Creative and Scholarly Activity (2022), College of Engineering Excellence in Research Award (2021), University Outstanding Teacher Award (2023), Outstanding Advisor Award (2025), and Excellence in Supervision of Undergraduate Research Award (2020). He has taught thermal-fluid sciences to over 2,000 students, advised 9 Ph.D., 13 M.S., and more than 20 undergraduates, served as Provost Faculty Fellow and on University Research and Graduate Councils, and sits on editorial boards of three journals in fluid mechanics and surface science.