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Mechanical
Engineer Joins The Geo-Heat Center Staff
Source: Geo-Heat Center Quarterly Bulletin
Publication date: September 2004
Andrew D. Chiasson recently joined the Geo-Heat Center staff
as Research Associate-Mechanical Engineer. He is originally
from Windsor, Ontario, Canada and received B.S. and M.S.
degrees in Geological Engineering at the University of Windsor
(1989 and 1992). He has worked for Dragun Corporation of
Farmington Hills, Michigan (1990 - 1996) and EnviroSolutions,
Inc., of Dearborn Heights, Michigan (1996-1997) as a Geological
Engineer working mainly in the ground-water flow and hydrogeological
field investigations. He then attending the School of Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University (1997-2000)
as Research EngineerlResearch Assistant The area of study
was in geothermal heat pump systems under faculty associated
with the International Ground Source Heat Pump Association
(IGSHPA). During this time, he also designed a ground loop
heat exchanger and data collection system for a bridge deck
de-icing system on Interstate 40 near Weatherford, OK. After
graduating with a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, he went
to work for Hardin Geotechnologies of Indianapolis, Indiana
(2000-2002) as a Geothermal Engineer. He designed closed
and open loop geothermal heat pump systems for buildings
with this firm. Most recently, he attended the University
of Wyoming at Laramie as a Research Associate, and Ph.D.
student in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering.
He worked on modeling of geothermal heat pump systems and
solar engineering systems, and heat extraction systems at
underground coal fire sites for cogeneration. His dissertation
topic Hybrid Geothermal Heat Pump systems with Solar
Thermal Collectors in Cold Climates, which he plans
to finish by summer 2005. He is a Registered Professional
Engineer (ME) in Indiana and Michigan, a member of ASHRAE
(Geothemlal Energy Utilization and Solar Energy Utilization
committees) and the American Solar Energy Society (ASES).
He has numerous publications to his name, mainly in the
area of geothermal heat pump systems. His main task at the
GeoHeat Center will be technical assistance for geothermal
direct use and heat pump projects. He was recently married
to Kirstin Beach of Palo Alto, California.
Hardin
Geotechnologies, Inc. would like to congratulate Andrew
on his new position. We wish him the best of luck!
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