Dr. Eckhard A. Groll is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Office of Professional Practice at Purdue University. He joined Purdue University as an Assistant Professor in 1994 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2000 and to Full Professor in 2005. He received his Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the University of the Ruhr in Bochum, Germany, in 1989 and a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hannover, Germany, in 1994. Professor Groll teaches Thermodynamics and his research focuses on the fundamental thermal sciences as applied to advanced HVAC&R systems, components, and their working fluids. Since joining Purdue, he has been the principal investigator (PI) or Co-PI on 74 research grants and 37 educational grants with a total budget of $6.8 million from various agencies, including the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Technology Institute (ARTI), the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), the California Energy Commission (CEC), the Cooling Technologies Research Center (CTRC) at Purdue University, the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, and twenty HVACR companies. Since joining Purdue, he has graduated sixteen doctoral students and twenty-six master students. He advised thirty-eight undergraduate project students, thirty-three visiting scholars or visiting research associates, and five post-doctoral researchers. Dr. Groll has authored or co-authored 65 archival journal articles and 113 conference papers. He has been the co-author of two handbook chapters and the editor or co-editor of seven conference proceedings. He has given 41 invited lectures or seminars and four keynote lectures. He serves as the Regional Editor for the Americas for the International Journal of Refrigeration. Prof. Groll has organized and chaired the 6th, 7th, 9th and 10th International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conferences at Purdue (1996, 1998, 2002 and 2004) and the18th International Compressor Engineering Conference at Purdue (2006). He was General Chair of the 19th International Compressor Engineering Conference and 12th International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference at Purdue (2008). In addition, he has chaired the 4th IIR – Gustav Lorentzen Conference on Natural Working Fluids in 2000 and was Program Co-Chair of the 2003 International Congress of Refrigeration in Washington, D.C. He has organized and chaired several symposia, technical paper, and seminar sessions at ASHRAE and the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) conferences. Prof. Groll is a Fellow of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). He has received numerous awards for his research and teaching excellence including the 2010 E. K. Campbell Award from ASHRAE, his induction into the Book of Great Teachers at Purdue University in 2008, and the 2007 Purdue University Faculty Scholar Award, the 2007 Ruth and Joel Spira Award, his induction as a Fellow of the Purdue Teaching Academy in 2005, the 2005 Charles B. Murphy Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching at Purdue University, the 2004 Team Excellence Award in the Schools of Engineering at Purdue University for outstanding innovation and interdisciplinary teamwork in creating and developing the GEARE program, the 2003 Guest Professorship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for his sabbatical stay at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, the 2003 B.F.S. Schaefer Outstanding Young Faculty Scholar Award, his naming as a Senior Resource Faculty for the Teacher for Tomorrow Award Program at Purdue University during the academic year 2002/2003, the 2002 Solberg Award for best teacher in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, and the 1997 ASHRAE New Investigator Award. His contributions to engineering societies have been recognized with his naming of Fellow of ASHRAE in 2006, the 2005 Wilbur T. Pentzer Achievement and Leadership Award for outstanding contributions to the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR), and the ASHRAE Distinguished Service Award in 2003.