Glen West

Education

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, College of Engineering
Salt Lake City, Utah
Doctor of Philosophy degree in Mechanical Engineering – December 2017

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, College of Engineering
Salt Lake City, Utah
Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering - May 2003

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, College of Engineering
Salt Lake City, Utah
Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering - June 1997

UTAH VALLEY STATE COLLEGE
Orem, Utah
Associate of Applied Science degree in Drafting and Design Technology - August 1985

Professional Licensing

STATE OF UTAH, Professional Engineer-Discipline: Mechanical

Academic Experience

WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY, Ogden, Utah – January 2008 to Present
Professor and Program Coordinator
Product Design and Development - Engineering Technology Program

Professional Experience

SETPOINT, INC, West Haven, Utah – February 2017 to August 2017
Mechanical Engineering Industrial Fellow – Spring and Summer 2017

FMC AIRPORT SYSTEMS-JETWAY, Ogden, Utah - December 1987 to December 2007
Mechanical Engineer

Doctor of Philosophy Research

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, Department of Mechanical Engineering-Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, and Sustainable
Energy
Research focus was the exploration of thermal wave propagation and temperature distributions in packed beds comprised
of encapsulated phase-change materials. The objectives of the work were to develop models that can be used to predict the
propagation of melting and freezing fronts, as well as describe the temperature distribution across the bed. A test system
was utilized in investigating the thermal characteristics of the system. Air was used as the heat transfer fluid. Charging
operations required heating the air prior to it being supplied to the bed. Discharging operations, employed to extract
thermal energy from the bed, required cooling the air prior to delivery at the bed. Temperature data supported the
hypotheses and mathematical models used to predict the behavior of both the thermal as well as the phase-change fronts
advancing through the bed during the melting and freezing processes. Test data indicated the time of arrival for the phase-
change wave front, in terms of the time that phase-change begins and ends, and was used to estimate the velocity of both
the melting and freezing fronts. Comparison of test data for the phase-change and thermal wave front velocities, to values
resulting from the theoretical model developed for wave front velocities, resulted in an acceptable correlation, particularly
for the melting and freezing processes. The velocities of isotherms in the partial phase-change region were also identified,
and a model was developed to predict velocities as a function of the ratio of the isotherm velocity to the Darcy velocity,
and the degree to which the phase-change material is solidified.

Master Research

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, Department of Mechanical Engineering-Ergonomics and Safety
MS Thesis - Conducted an ergonomic study to assess the biomechanical and psychophysical affects resulting from subject’s
exposure to different diameter handwheels in varied orientations, under varying loads and turning rates, during handwheel
turning operations. Employed a biomechanical model developed by the University of Michigan to simulate subject postures
and to predict reactions in terms of moments at the elbow and shoulder joints and compressive forces in the lower back at the

L5/S1 vertebral interface. The output generated by the biomechanical model in terms of reacted elbow and shoulder
moments and lower back compressive forces, based on the forces and postural inputs emulating the specified handwheel
turning configurations and actual posture of each of 20 subjects, were compared to the subject’s preference of handwheel
diameter in order to establish the degree of correlation between handwheel diameter and the smallest values for the reacted
elbow and shoulder moments and compressive forces in the lower back.

Publications

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
Heat Transfer during Heating and Cooling of a Packed-Bed comprised of Encapsulated Phase-Change Material
(2017) Journal of Energy Resources Technology

Thermal Wave Propagation in Packed-Beds of Encapsulated Phase-Change Materials
(2017) ASME 2017 Summer Heat Transfer Conference
Thermal and Phase-Change Wave Propagation and Velocities subject To Shrinking Core Phenomena for Melting
and Freezing Packed-Beds of Encapsulated Phase-Change Materials
(2017) Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation-University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.

Effects of Handwheel Diameter, Orientation, Turning Rate and Hand Forces on the Biomechanical and
Psychophysical Aspects of Handwheel Turning Operations
(2003) Master of Science Thesis-University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.

Biomechanical and Psychophysical Aspects of Handwheel Turning
(2003) Proceedings of the 1 st Annual Regional National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) Young/New
Investigators Symposium.