Janet L. Ellzey
Assistant Dean for International Engineering Education
Mechanical Engineering
Engineering Foundation Centennial Teaching Fellowship
in Engineering No. 2
Phone: (512) 471-7020
Fax: (512) 471-1045
Email: jellzey@mail.utexas.edu
Dr. Janet L. Ellzey earned her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the
University of California, Berkeley in 1985. She joined the faculty of The
University of Texas at Austin in 1990. She is Associate Chair for
International
Engineering Programs.
Dr. Ellzey researches combustion with an emphasis on environmental technologies. Her research includes both experimental and computational studies of combustion systems. Two main applications of Ellzey’s work are low-emission burners and fuel reformers. She has developed a low-emission combustor for gas turbine applications, and developed an incinerator for used tires that can condense usable fuel from the burned tires. Ellzey is currently developing a low-emission combustor and a non-catalytic reactor to convert conventional fuels such as methane into hydrogen-rich fuel mixtures without the use of a chemical catalyst.
Research interests:
- Combustion in environmental technologies
- Low-emission burners
- Fuel reformers