Rate My Professor John Saylor

John Saylor is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University in the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences, where he has held his position since 2000. He earned a B.S. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1986, an M.S. from the University of Minnesota in 1989, and both an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1993. Prior to Clemson, Saylor served as a senior engineer at a high-technology startup company developing microfluidics-based medical technologies and conducted research at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., studying capillary waves and surfactants. He teaches courses such as Foundations of Fluid and Thermal Systems (ME 2030), Thermodynamics (ME 3030), Heat Transfer (ME 3040), and Convective Heat Transfer (ME 8310), along with fluid dynamics, convective heat transfer, and experimental methods.

Saylor's research focuses on interfacial hydrodynamics and air/water transport processes, including drops, bubbles, waves, ultrasonic levitation, drop/particle interactions, and ultrasonics for pollution control. He directs the Interfacial Hydrodynamics Research Laboratory, with projects on levitated water drop shapes for radar-based rain rate estimation relevant to NASA and NOAA satellites, raindrop impact bubble formation for oceanic gas exchange and carbon sequestration, and particle scavenging by fog drops for air purification in mines and healthcare facilities to reduce bioaerosols. Saylor is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a member of the American Physical Society and Sigma Xi, and received the 2019 Mentoring Award from the College for enriching faculty and student experiences. Key publications include 'The directional sensitivity of the acoustic radiation force to particle diameter' with W. Ran (J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 2015), 'A mechanistic explanation of the increase in particle scavenging in the ultrasonic scrubber' with W. Ran (J. Aerosol Sci., 2015), 'Experimental study of the role of the Weber and capillary numbers on Mesler entrainment' with G. D. Bounds (AIChE J., 2012), 'Axis ratios of water drops levitated in a vertical wind tunnel' with B. K. Jones (J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 2009), and 'Infrared imaging of a solid phase surfactant monolayer' with T. A. Conover (Langmuir, 2006). His Google Scholar profile shows an h-index of 26.