Dr. John Lienhard M.D. Anderson Professor of Technology and Culture, Emeritus Dept. of Mechanical Engineering University of Houston Engineering Building One Houston, TX 77204-4006 Office Location: N220-D Telephone: (713) 743-4518 Fax: (713) 743-4503 E-mail: jhl@uh.edu

Cultural History and Public Radio. (Formerly Thermal Sciences, thermodynamics and Boiling.)

Service: 1856 episodes of The Engines of Our Ingenuity, nationally syndicated essays on public radio (as of Nov. 11, 2003)
The Engines of Our Ingenuity website receives around 250,000 page hits a week.
Sixty or so lectures a year, including many national keynotes. (See the Engines web site for details.)

Publications: Six books and hundreds of papers. Most recent books:
Lienhard, J. H., Inventing Modern, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003
Lienhard, J. H., The Engines of Our Ingenuity, Paperback ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2003
John H. Lienhard IV and John H. Lienhard V, A Heat Transfer Textbook (Online), 3rd edition

Awards & Honors: Member of The National Academy of Engineering, 2003
M.D. Anderson Professor of Technology and Culture, University of Houston, 1989.
Fellow, ASME, 1977.
Honorary Member, ASME, 1995.
Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award (for "Outstanding achievement by a mechanical engineer within 20 years or more of graduation"), ASME Pi Tau Sigma, 1979.
Fellow, American Association for the
Advancement of Science, 1989.
ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award (for "Outstanding contributions to the science of heat transfer"), 1980.
Member, ASME Distinguished Lecturer Bureau, 1986-present.
The W.T. Kittenger Award (for "Outstanding Engineering Teacher"), 1987.
Dean W.R. Woodrich Award - Engineer of the Year, South Texas Section of ASME, 1987.
University of Houston Teaching Award, 1989.
Ralph Coats Roe Medal (for "Contributions to a public understanding of Technology" based on Public Radio Program, The Engines of Our Ingenuity), ASME, 1989.
American Women in Radio and Television, Portrait Division Award (for The Engines of Our Ingenuity), 1990.
The University of Houston Engineering Alumni Distinguished Engineering Faculty Member Award, 1990.
One of two awards for Special Programming by the Southern Educational Television Association, 1991.
The Ester Farfel Award (given to the university's outstanding faculty member), University of Houston, 1991.
Finalist Award for Engines of Our Ingenuity in the New York Festivals International Radio Competition (one of 5 among 1300 entrants).
Ralph Coates Roe Medal (for teaching), ASEE, 1994.
Named Outstanding Engineering Graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, 1994.
The American Medical Writers of America McGovern Award, 1996.
A "John H. Lienhard" Award was created by Region X of ASME in 1996 to honor contributors to a public understanding of engineering.
ASME Engineer Historian Award, 1998.
The Edwin F. Church Award, 2000, (for distinguished service in advancing mechanical engineering education.)
Honorary Doctorate, University of Houston, 2002
Honorary Doctorate, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, 2002
Volunteer of the Year Award, KUHF-FM Radio Station (with Carol Lienhard)
Freedom Foundation Award, 2002.

Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley