Matthew J. Traum, Ph.D.

Thermal Fluid Sciences Group @ UNT
Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering
University of North Texas

Mailing Address:
PO Box 1394
Denton, TX 76202

E-mail: mtraum{at}unt.edu
Phone: (940) 565-3446

Matthew J. Traum is an assistant professor of mechanical and energy engineering at the University of North Texas (UNT). He received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [2007] where he held a research assistantship at MIT’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN). His doctoral major was thermal fluid sciences, and his minor was micro/nano fabrication and manufacturing. Professor Traum also holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from MIT [2003] and two bachelor’s degrees from the University of California, Irvine [2001]: one in mechanical engineering and the second in aerospace engineering. Professor Traum also minored in Women’s Studies at UCI. In addition, he attended the University of Bristol, UK as a non-matriculating visiting scholar where he completed an M.Eng thesis in the Department of Aerospace Engineering [2000]. Prior to his appointment at UNT, Professor Traum taught in the Physics Department at Simmons College in Boston, MA, and he was an engineer at Nextek Power Systems, Inc.