Bijay Sultanian

Bijay K. Sultanian, PhD, PE, MBA, ASME Fellow, is a recognized international authority in gas turbine heat transfer, secondary air systems, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Dr. Sultanian is a founder and managing member of Takaniki Communications, LLC (www.takaniki.com), a provider of high-impact, web-based, and live technical training programs for corporate engineering teams. Dr. Sultanian is also an adjunct professor at the University of Central Florida, where he has taught graduate-level courses in turbomachinery and fluid mechanics since 2006. As an active member of the IGTI's Heat Transfer Committee since 1994, he has instructed a number of workshops at ASME/IGTI Turbo Expos. During his three decades in the gas turbine industry, Dr. Sultanian has worked in and led technical teams at a number of organizations, including Allison Gas Turbines (now Rolls-Royce), General Electric (GE) Aircraft Engines (now GE Aviation), GE Power Generation (now GE Power & Water), and Siemens Energy (now Siemens Power & Gas). He has developed several physics-based improvements to legacy heat transfer and fluid systems design methods, including new tools to analyze critical high-temperature gas turbine components with and without rotation. He particularly enjoys training large engineering teams at prominent firms around the globe on cutting-edge technical concepts and engineering and project management best practices. During his initial 10-year professional career, Dr. Sultanian made several landmark contributions toward the design and development of India's first liquid rocket engine for a surface-to-air missile (Prithvi). He also developed the first numerical heat transfer model of steel ingots for optimal operations of soaking pits in India's steel plants. Dr. Sultanian is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1986); a registered professional engineer in the State of Ohio (1995); International WHO'S WHO of Professionals (1999); a GE-certified Six Sigma Green Belt (1998); Member, GE Aircraft Engines, Engineering Design Board, Heat Transfer (1997-1999); and an emeritus member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society (1984). Dr. Sultanian earned BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1971), and the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (1978), respectively. He earned a PhD in mechanical engineering at Arizona State University, Tempe (1984), and an MBA at the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1999).