SA Sherif > Biography

Dr. SA Sherif has been on the faculty of the University of Florida since 1991 and is currently a tenured Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is the Founding Director of the Wayne K. and Lyla L. Masur HVAC Laboratory, the Director of the UF Industrial Assessment Center, and the Director of the UF Mobile Energy Laboratory. He served as Co-Director of the Southeastern Center for Industrial Energy Intensity Reduction (2009-2013). This is a US-DOE-funded regional consortium of three southeastern universities along with the Mississippi Development Authority with a mission to decrease industrial energy intensity in the southeast. Prior to joining the faculty at UF, he served on the faculties of the University of Miami (1987-1991) and Northern Illinois University (1984-1987). He is a Life Fellow of ASME, a Life Fellow of ASHRAE, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a Fellow of the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE), an Associate Fellow of AIAA, a Vice President of Commission B-2 on Refrigerating Equipment and a Member of Commission B-1 on Thermodynamics and Transfer Processes of the International Institute of Refrigeration, a Member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy, and a Founding Member of the Board of Directors and Vice President for Programs of the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE). He is the 2013-2014 Chair of the ASME Heat Transfer Division Executive Committee (2009-2016) and a member of the ASME’s Basic Engineering Group Operating Board (2010-2014). He is also the 2002-2003 Chair of the ASME Advanced Energy Systems Division, and a past chair of the K-19 Committee on Environmental Heat Transfer of the ASME Heat Transfer Division (2003-2007), the Coordinating Group on Fluid Measurements (1992-1994) and the Fluid Applications and Systems Technical Committee (2008-2010) of the ASME Fluids Engineering Division. He is also a past chair of the Steering Committee of the Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference (2001-2003), ASHRAE’s Standards Project Committee 41.6 on Measurement of Moist Air Properties (1989-1994), and ASHRAE’s TC1.1 Committee on Thermodynamics and Psychrometrics (2012-2013). He also served as a member of the ASME’s Energy Resources Board (2001-2003) and was the Board’s representative to the ASME’s International Mechanical Engineering Congress Committee (2003-2006). He was the Head of the Refrigeration Section of ASHRAE (2004-2008), the Technical Conference Chair of both the 2008 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference and the 12th AIAA/ASME Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference (2018), a member of the ASME Frank Kreith Energy Award Selection Committee (2005-2011), and the General Conference Chair of the 2013 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference. He also served as the Technical Conference Co-Chair of the 2nd ASTFE Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (2017) and the Technical Discipline Chair of the 2019 AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and the 2020 AIAA Science and Technology Forum. Dr. Sherif is currently serving as an ABET Program Evaluator (PEV) in Mechanical Engineering (2019-2024). Dr. Sherif currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering (2020-2025). He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications (2014-2019). Dr. Sherif has 160 refereed journal papers, one book, 20 published bound volumes, 24 book chapters, 175 conference papers, 240 technical reports, and two US patents.