Dr. Craig Glennie, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cullen College of Engineering

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• Areas of expertise

  • Classical, surface, and statistical thermodynamics
  • Heat transfer
  • Nanotechnology
  • Thermal engergy harvesting

• Awards

  • 2013 Talbert Abrams Award for his paper titled "Calibration and Kinematic Analysis of the Velodyne HDL-64E S2 LiDAR Sensor," 

• Publications

  • Fernandez-Diaz, J.C., Glennie, C.L., Carter, W.E., Shrestha, R.L., Sartori, M.P., Singhania, A., Legleiter, C.J., Overstreet, B.T., “Early Results of Simultaneous Terrain and Shallow Water Bathymetry Mapping Using a Single-Wavelength Airborne LiDAR Sensor.” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, July, 2013 (in press).
  • Glennie, C.L., Carter, W.E., Shrestha, R.L., Dietrich, W.E., “Geodetic imaging with airborne LiDAR; the Earth’s surface revealed.” Reports on Progress in Physics, 2013, 76 086801
  • Chow, J.C.K.; Lichti, D.D.; Glennie, C.; Hartzell, P. Improvements to and Comparison of Static Terrestrial LiDAR Self-Calibration Methods. Sensors 2013, 13, 7224-7249.
  • Chan, T.O.; Lichti, D.D.; Glennie, C.L. Multi-feature based boresight self-calibration of a terrestrial mobile mapping system. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 2013, 82, 112-124.
  • Glennie, C., Brooks, B., Ericksen, T., Hauser, D., Hudnut, K., Foster, J., Avery, J., "Compact Multipurpose Mobile Laser Scanning System - Initial Tests and Results." Remote Sens. 2013, 5 (2), 521-538.
  • Glennie, C., “Calibration and Kinematic Analysis of the Velodyne HDL-64E S2 LiDAR Sensor.” PE&RS, April 2012.
  • Glennie, C.; Lichti, D.D. “Temporal Stability of the Velodyne HDL-64E S2 Scanner for High Accuracy Scanning Applications.” Remote Sens. 2011, 3, 539-553.
  • Glennie, C.; Lichti, D.D. “Static Calibration and Analysis of the Velodyne HDL-64E S2 for High Accuracy Mobile Scanning.” Remote Sens. 2010, 2, 1610-1624.
  • Glennie, C, “Kinematic Terrestrial Light-Detection and Ranging System for Scanning” Transportation Research Record: Journal of The Transportation Research Board, Vol. 2105, 2009, pp. 135-141.
  • Glennie, C., “Rigorous 3D Error Analysis of Kinematic Scanning LIDAR Systems” Journal of Applied Geodesy, Vol. 1, 2007, pp. 147-157.

  For more publications, see Faculty Website above.

• Patents

  • Hadi Ghasemi, Peyman Irajizad, Munib Hasnain, “Magnetic Icephobic Surfaces“, United States Application, 62/313893.
  • Hadi Ghasemi, Seyed Mohammad Sajadi, Nazanin Farokhnia, Peyman Irajizad, “Structures for Suppression of Leidenfrost Phenomenon“, United States Application: 62/308459.
  • Gang Chen, Hadi Ghasemi, Xiaopeng Huang, James Loomis, Jonathan Tong, and Jianjian Wang “A continuous platform for fabrication of aligned polymer films”, United states 61/989588.
  • Svetlana Boriskina, Kenneth McEnaney, Hadi Ghasemi, Selcuk Yerci, Andrej Lenert, Sungwoo Yang, Evelyn Wang, and Gang Chen, “ Internally-heated thermal and externally-cool photovoltaic cascade solar system for the full solar spectrum utilization“, US Application: 61/868715.
  • Hadi Ghasemi, Amy Marie Marconnet, and Gang Chen, “ Localized solar collectors“, US Application: 61/874390.
  • Seok Woo Lee, Yuan Yang, Hadi Ghasemi, Yi Cui, and Gang Chen, “An electrochemical system for highly efficient harvesting of low-grade heat energy“, US Application: 61/836593.

• Grants and Funded Research

  • NSF grant for $300,000 to develop a real-time change detection system, using LiDAR data, for disaster response, 2014.
  • U.S. Department of Transportation grant for $700,000 to develop pipeline safety system, 2014.
  • NSF grant for $200,000 to develop open-source LiDAR Software.

• Curriculum Vitae

  • Not available.

• Contact information

  UH NCALM, 5000 Gulf Freeway, Bldg. 4, Rm 216, Houston, TX 77204

  Phone:  832-842-8861 | Fax: 713-743-0186

  clglennie@uh.edu