Education

Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley

Research Interests

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.)

Recent Publications

• 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 and 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