Chronology of Harris Wong

A Brief Chronology

1982	Entered Mechanical Engineering Honours Program at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
1983	Studied shock waves as a summer intern in the laboratory of Professor John Lee. First taste of scientific research.
1984	President of McGill Chinese Engineering Undergraduate Society.
1985	B. Eng. (Honours) thesis on the aerodynamics of a flexible aerofoil. Enrolled in the graduate program of Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley.
1988	Graduated from McGill University with Great Distinction. Awarded British Association Medal.
1992	Ph.D. dissertation on two-phase flow in porous media. Began research on the human tear film in Chemical Engineering Department at U.C. Berkeley.
1993	Started developing a pendant bubble method for measuring dynamic surface tension at the Levich Institute of the City College of CUNY. Taught thermodynamics and unit operations laboratory.
1994	Taught engineering design workshop.
1995	Began research on solid thin films at Northwestern University.
1997	Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana State University.
1998	Invited by NASA Lewis Research Center to review the Constrained Vapor Bubble Experiment to be performed on the International Space Station in 2001.
2000	NSF CAREER award. Developed a δ-function model of facets.
2002	Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana State University.
2004	Formulated a new theory of slope-dependent disjoining pressure.
2007	Modeled fluid flow and heat transfer in micro heat pipes.