Associate Professor, ASME Faculty Advisor
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Dr. Scott Wayne serves as the Faculty Adviser of the WVU ASME Student Chapter.
Dr. Wayne is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at West Virginia University.
He teaches courses in thermal sciences including undergraduate and graduate level
thermodynamics and heat transfer courses, introductory computer programming
and numerical analysis courses and courses in model based design, simulation and
control of advanced vehicle propulsion systems. Dr. Wayne also teaches
capstone design courses associated with hybrid electric vehicle design and served
as the Faculty Adviser of the WVU Challenge X and EcoCAR teams as Co-Faculty Adviser
of the EcoCAR 3 team. Challenge X, EcoCAR and EcoCAR 3 were part of the U.S.
Department of Energy’s Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition Series which challenges
students to develop state-of-the-art hybrid electric propulsion systems for cross-over
sport utility vehicles. Dr. Wayne is also teaches capstone design courses
centered on the Formula SAE Collegiate Design Competition. The Formula SAE Series
competitions challenge teams of university students to conceive, design and fabricate
a small Formula-style autocross race car targeted at the non-professional weekend
autocross racing market.
Dr. Wayne’s research interests include alternative fuels, internal combustion engines
and emissions, engine controls, hybrid vehicle propulsion and control, connected
and automated vehicles and safety critical vehicle control system engineering.
His research efforts have focused on the measurement, characterization and reduction
of pollutant emissions from vehicles and engines including on-road heavy-duty trucks
and buses, light and medium duty passenger vehicles, off-road construction equipment,
railway locomotives, and marine vessels. He has conducted major research
programs to evaluate the performance, efficiency and emissions of vehicles equipped
with hybrid-electric drive systems, to evaluate the performance and durability
of new exhaust aftertreatment systems, and to collect emissions data for modeling
of atmospheric emissions inventories.
Dr. Wayne serves as the Faculty Adviser of the WVU Student Chapter of American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the WVU Student Chapter of SAE International.