WKU Engineering Faculty and Staff - Kevin Schmaltz

Kevin Schmaltz

Professor

Office:  2112
Phone:  270-745-8859
Email:  kevin.schmaltz@wku.edu
Website:  http://www.wku.edu/engineering

Courses

ME 176M: ME Freshman Design           R 02:30 - 04:30

ME 176M: ME Freshman Design           T 02:30 - 04:30

ME 176M: ME Freshman Design           W 03:00 - 05:00

ME 325M: Elements of Heat Transfer   TR 09:35 - 10:55

ME 400M: ME Design                               MF 09:10 - 10:05

Office Hours

Research

• Project management and design pedagogy
• Non-traditional energy systems (biodiesel)
• Computational fluids and heat transfer

Bio

      First introduced to engineering by his father, Dr. Kevin Schmaltz attended Virginia Tech and earned a BSME degree. He then worked for Shell Oil in New Orleans, Louisiana, as a maintenance engineer and then a design engineer for offshore Gulf of Mexico oil platforms. He proceeded with masters and doctoral studies in ME at Tulane University and Carnegie-Mellon University, respectively. Through tutoring experiences with undergraduate students while at graduate school, Dr. Schmaltz decided to stay in the field of academic education – first at Lake Superior State University and now at WKU – where he can share a variety of experiences and design challenges with his students.