Overview Academic/Research Interest Areas

Engineering Management

Aerodynamics

HVAC

Fluid Mechanics

Medical Devices

Heat Transfer

Hypersonics

Consumer Products

Professional Affiliations

Communications FAIT, Member, ongoing

Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, Member, 2003

Faculty Hearing Committee, Member, 2002- 2003

College Curriculum Committee, Member, 2002-2003

Faculty Council: Member, 1997-2000, 2002; Alternate, 2003

ET Department Review Committee: Chair, 2002; Member 2001

Faculty Executive Committee: Member, 2001-2002; Alternate, 2000, 2003

Special Faculty Advisor for the UNC Charlotte Student Court, 2000

Distance Learning Task Force, Member, 2000

Faculty Committee on Summer Sessions, Member, 2000

Committee on Intellectual Property, Member, 2000

ET Department Faculty Search Committee, Member, 2000

Professional Associations

Kentucky Speedway, Sparta, KY, Pro Bono Consultant, 2001-2002

Speedway Motorsports, Charlotte, North Carolina, Pro Bono Consultant, 2000-present

Piedmont Natural Gas Company, Charlotte, NC: Myrtle Beach and Spartinsburg SC, Consultant, 1996-present

Mississippi State University, Consultant, 1993-1996

Alpha Industries, Charlotte NC, Consultant, 1993

Recent Publications

Braun & Wang, CRC Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, 2nd Ed., Chapter 39 Boundary Layers, CEC Press, May 2004

Kimble, J. and Braun, E.R., It's Not the Dinosaurs, It's the Eggs They Leave Behind, Society for Applied Learning and Technology ,Orlando, Florida, February 2004

Edwin Braun, Engineering Technology Seminar, 2nd Edition, Prentice-Hall, 2003

Ed Braun and Lisa Braun, Multimedia Instructional Enhancements 2002 ASEE CIEC, proceedings, New York, NY, 2002

Edwin Braun, Engineering Technology Seminar, Prentice-Hall, 2002

Research Grants

Scholarships for FSET program, North Carolina Firefighters Association ($9000) 1999

Special annual appropriation to establish a degree program in Fire Safety, NC Legislature ($580,000), 1999

co-PI, Pilot Distance Learning Program, Grant from UNC General Administration ($1,613,939), 1997

co-PI, Studies of Congruity in Acetabular Components, BIOMET Corporation ($3000), 1995

Educational Background

B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, St. Louis University , 1966

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 1970