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Dr. Namwon Kim

  • Associate Professor - Ingram School of Engineering
Portrait of Dr. Namwon Kim

Education

Doctorate Degree

PhD in Mechanical Engineering

Louisiana State Univ A&M College, 2009

Bachelor's Degree

BSENG in Mechanical Engineering

Kangwon National University, 1998

  • Hwang, Sangchul Scott (Principal), Cho, Eunsang (Co-Principal), Kim, Namwon (Co-Principal). Performance of the Existing Best Management Practices for PFAS Control in Stormwater Runoff in San Marcos, TX, Texas State University, $80000. (Funded: June 1, 2025 - May 31, 2026). Grant.
  • Hwang, Sangchul Scott (Principal), Percent Contribution: %50, Kim, Namwon (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %25, Song, In-Hyouk (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %25. VOC Remediation by Permeable Reactive Barrier and VOC Sensor Development for Site Safety, DOE, Federal, $350000. (Funded: March 2025 - June 2026). Grant.
  • Haque, Ariful, Droopad, Ravindranath, Holtz, Mark W, Piner, Edwin L, Geerts, Wilhelmus J, Chen, Yihong, Hudnall, Todd W, Wistey, Mark A, Miyahara, Yoichi, Smith, Casey Eben, Mahato, Dip Narayan, Rastogi, Shiva Kumar, Kim, Namwon. Acquisition of a state-of-the-art Photoluminescence Spectrometer for Materials Characterization in Research and Education, Department of Defense, Federal, $434519. (Submitted: September 2023, Funded: 2024 - 2025). Grant.
  • Miyahara, Yoichi (Principal), Satchell, Nathan David (Co-Principal), Holtz, Mark W (Co-Principal), Kim, Namwon (Co-Principal), Martin, Benjamin (Co-Principal), Chen, Yihong (Supporting), Theodoropoulou, Nikoleta (Supporting), Geerts, Wilhelmus J (Supporting), Piner, Edwin L (Supporting), Haque, Ariful (Supporting), Droopad, Ravindranath (Supporting), Mahato, Dip Narayan (Supporting), Smith, Casey Eben (Supporting). MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of state-of-the-art lithography system for micro/nanometer scale device fabrication in research and education, National Science Foundation, Federal, $569780. (Submitted: November 14, 2023, Funded: September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2027). Grant.
  • Hwang, Sangchul Scott (Principal), Percent Contribution: %60, Kim, Namwon (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %40. Multidisciplinary Research and Workforce Development on Fate and Transport of PFAS, DOE, Federal, $3007636.5. (Funded: April 2024 - March 2027). Grant.
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  • Annamalai, S., Kim, N., & Hwang, S. S. (2026). Performance of a 3D-particle electrode for PFOA degradation by persulfate-activated electrochemical advanced oxidation processes. Journal of Hazardous Materials: Organics, 2, 100014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazmo.2026.100014
  • Bhattarai, P., Annamalai, S., Kim, N., & Hwang, S. S. (2026). PFOA Adsorption onto Biochar Derived from Invasive Water Hyacinth. Water Science & Technology, 93(8), 1180–1194. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2026.260
  • Kim, N., & Yi, T. (n.d.). A Curvature-Dependent Force-Balance Model for Pinch-Off Length in Microfluidic T-Junction Droplet Generation. Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology.
  • Inamdar, S., Sargordi, A., Choity, T. K., Emami, A., Kim, J. Y., Kang, H. G., & Kim, N. (2026). Additively Manufactured Electrothermal Thin-Film Heaters for On-Chip Isothermal DNA Amplification. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 399, 117434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2025.117434
  • Shadman, W., Mannan, M. I., Choity, T. K., Hwang, S. S., Lee, G.-H., Kang, H. G., & Kim, N. (2026). Electrochemical detection of tRNA-derived fragment (tRF) biomarkers using a multi-functionalized carbon electrode. Surfaces and Interfaces, 83, 108446. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2026.108446
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: ASME Fellow, Americal Society of Mechanical Engineers. September 1, 2024 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Certificate of Recognition, American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 2016 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Brain Pool (BP) Fellowship, National Research Foundation of Korea. August 1, 2020 - August 14, 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Research Award, Texas State University. September 2020 - May 2021
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Award of Honor, Texas State University Alumni Association. 2020
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  1. Graduate Advisor

    Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering M.S. Program

  2. Chair

    Water Resource Faculty Search Committee

  3. Member

    Energy Faculty Search Committee

  4. Member

    Faculty Search Committee, Assistant Professor of Instruction in MFGE

  5. Co-Chair

    ISoE MMIE Ph.D. Admission Committee

  6. Other

    Scientific Reports: Surfaces and Interfaces

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