Professional Experience:
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH, 2009-present
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Ohio Northern University, 2003-2009
- Senior Systems Engineer, Delphi, Inc. - Packard Electrical Systems, Warren, OH, 1998-2003
- Adjunct Professor, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, 2001, 2002
- Assistant Professor, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 1996-1998
- Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, 1997
- Visiting Scholar, Research Center Jülich, Germany, 1993
- Summer Intern, GE Aircraft Engines, Cincinnati, OH, 1990
Education:
- PE, Registered Professional Engineer in Ohio
- PhD., Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 1997
- MSME, Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 1994
- BSME, Mechanical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Inst. Of Technology, 1991
Teaching Interests:
- Thermal Sciences
- General Engineering
Research Interests:
- Numerical Heat Transfer
- Heat Exchangers
Selected Publications:
- D. Sawyers and J. Marquart , "Using Simulation Software in Thermal Sciences Courses ," Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE North-Central Section Annual Meeting, Charleston, WV, 2007.
- D. Sawyers and J. Yoder, "Teaching Programming and Numerical Methods as Concurrent Courses ," Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, 2007.
