Ram S. Mohan, Ph.D.
 Professor

Research Interests:

• Control Systems
• Multiphase Flow Separation
• High Pressure Fluid Applications
• Manufacturing Processes and Systems
• Signal Processing
• CAD/CAM
• Finite Element Modeling
• Artificial Neural Networks

Teaching Fields:

• ME 3063, Manufacturing Processes
• ME 4373, CAD/CAM
• ME 7863, Advanced Manufacturing Processes
• ME 4053, Mechanical Control Design
• ME 7863, Advanced Control Systems Design

Three Representative Publications:

• Gomez, C., Caldentey, J., Wang, S., Gomez, L., Mohan, R. and Shoham, O.: "Oil-Water Separation in Liquid-Liquid Hydrocyclones (LLHC) - Part 1: Experimental Investigation", previously SPE 71538, presented at the SPE ATCE, New Orleans, LA, September 30 - October 3, 2001, SPE Journal (December 2002).
  
  
• Caldentey, J., Gomez, C., Wang, S., Gomez, L., Mohan, R. and Shoham, O.: “Oil-Water Separation in Liquid-Liquid Hydrocyclones (LLHC) – Part 2: Mechanistic Modeling”, previously SPE 71538, presented at the SPE ATCE, New Orleans, LA, September 30 – October 3, 2001, SPE Journal, (December 2002).
  
  
• Wang, S., Mohan, R., Shoham, O., Marrelli, J., and Kouba, G.: “Optimal Control Strategy and Experimental Investigation of Gas-Liquid Cylindrical Cyclone Compact Separators”, SPE 63120, presented at the SPE 74th Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, October 1-4, 2000, SPE Journal 7 (2), pp. 170-182, (June 2002).

Select Awards and Honors

• Awarded TAU BETA PI “Professor of the Month” for April 1997
• Honorary Life Member, PHI KAPPA PHI, National Honor Society, since 1998. (National Honor Society recognizing and promoting excellence in all fields of higher education. From TU, 2 faculty and 2 staff nominated annually. UG students 3.5 GPA and above and Graduate students - 4.0 GPA)
• Awarded “Best Paper award for the Oral Presentation Category - The Deepwater Challenge Session” by 5th–International Petroleum Conference and Exhibition, Petrotech 2003 conducted at New Delhi, India, for co-authoring the paper “Application of Gas-Liquid Cylindrical Cyclone (GLCC©) in Hydrocarbon Industry with Specific Reference to Deepwater Technology”, January 9-12, 2003
• Awarded “The Jacobson Best Paper Award” by the ASME Engineering Technology Conference on Energy (ETCE-2002) conducted at Houston, TX, for co-authoring the paper “Performance and Control of Liquid-Liquid Cylindrical Cyclone Separators”, February 4-5, 2002. (Selected best among 170 National and International papers presented)

Other Responsibilities

• Chairman - Departmental Computer Committee (Jan. '97 to date), Member (Jan. '96 – Jan. ’97)
• Associate Director - Tulsa University Separation Technology Projects (TUSTP) – since June 1998. Co-PI – June 1996 to May 1998. Supervisor of the GLCC (Gas Liquid Cylindrical Cyclone) controls project – since June 1996.
• Member – College Library Committee, representing the Mechanical Engineering Department. (Aug. '97 till date)
• Faculty adviser for the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)