Education

• Ph. D. in Building Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2000
• M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, 1997
• B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, 1994

Research Interests

• Development of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) as a design tool
• Simulations and measurements of indoor and outdoor environment
• Ventilation, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and Building Energy Analysis
• Sustainable Building Design

Teaching Activities

Developed and taught new graduate courses at Penn State University:

• AE 597A "Research Methods in Architectural Engineering"
• AE 559 "Computational Fluid Dynamics in Building Design"

Taught undergraduate courses at Penn State University

• AE 310 "Fundamentals of Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning"
• AE 124 "Freshman Seminar"
• AE 481/482 "Senior Thesis Project"

Laboratories

• Building Environment Simulation and Testing (BEST) facility
• HVAC Learning Playground (HVAC LP)

Experience

Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA,
August 2000 - May 2006

Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA,
June 2006 - present

Adjunct Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA,
June 2007 - present

• Conduct research on outdoor airflow, ventilation, indoor air quality, building energy, and thermal comfort
• Direct, designed and built two new laboratories: one for research (BEST) and one for teaching (HVAC LP):website:
• Developed software for green building design called building energy and airflow (BEAF) program including a user-friendly interface :website:
• Teach and develop graduate and undergraduate courses
• Supervise post-doctoral fellows, graduates, and under-graduates
• Support and supervise undergraduate research project for more than 15 undergraduate students resulting in built projects
• Collaborate with Universities in Europe, Canada and Asia, collaborate with Aerospace, Mechanical and Civil Engineering as well as Horticulture and Education departments at PSU
• Advise ASHRAE and SSAE student groups

Research/Teaching Assistant

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA,
September 1997 - August 2000

• Developed a simplified CFD program, CFD0, for indoor environment simulations for architects and building engineers
• Coupled CFD0 with energy simulation program ACCURACY for simultaneous thermal comfort, indoor air quality, and building energy simulation
• Measured indoor environment parameters with different air supply diffusers
• Development of simplified boundary conditions of air supply diffusers for room airflow simulation
• Assisted in teaching subjects "Energy in Building Design" and "Building Technology Seminar"
• Guest lectured on subjects "Analysis and Design of Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning Systems" and "Integrated Building Systems"

Research Assistant

University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia,
January 1995 - August 1997

• Developed analytical solutions for heat transfer in the building envelopes

Research Engineer, Intern

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany, Summer 1992

• Collected and analyzed electrical signals of stored ions in a radio-frequency trap at the time-unit laboratory

Awards

• Distinguished Service Award, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), 2007
• Yaglou Award, International Academy of Indoor Air Sciences, 2005
• Best Poster Presentation Award, ASHRAE, 2002
• Homer Addams Award, ASHRAE, 2001
• Pearce Development Professorship, PSU, 2000
• Best Poster Presentation Award, ASHRAE, 2000
• The Nicolitch Trust Scholarship for a recipient with exemplary grades and leadership potential, 1999-2001
• Avalon Travel Grant, MIT, 1999
• Grant in Aid Fellowship for Graduate Students, ASHRAE, 1998
• Scholarship from Ministry of Science for Talented Graduate Students, Yugoslavia, 1995 - 1997
• DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship, Germany, 1992

Student Awards

• Paulo Cesar Tabares Velasco, ASHRAE Graduate Grant-in-Aid, 2007-2008.
• Brendon Burley: ARL Graduate Fellowship 2006-2008;PSU University Fellowship, 2005-2006; ASHRAE Undergraduate Senior Project Grant 2004-2005; NSF Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Summer 2004.
• Vladimir Vukovic, ASHRAE Graduate Grant-in-Aid, 2006-2007.
• Jason Sambolt, NSF Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Summer 2006.
• Ashraf Mansour: Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2005
• Atila Novoselac: Jack and Laraine Beiter Excellence Endowment in Architectural Engineering, Penn State University, 2004; Gordon D. Kissinger Graduate Fellowship, Penn State University, 2003; Dean's Fellowship for Graduate Students, Penn State University, 2001-2004; Grant in Aid Fellowship for Graduate Students, ASHRAE, 2001.
• Danko Davidovic: Grant in Aid Fellowship for Graduate Students, ASHARE 2002.
• Yazhuo Qian: PSU University Fellowship, 2002-2003.
• Tracey Nawrocki: ASHRAE Grant-in-Aid, 2005; ASHRAE-Alwin B. Newton Scholarship 2004; The Boeing Scholarship 2003-2004; NSF Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Summer 2004.
• Michelle Murosky: 2003 Thesis Award of Merit; Ove Arup & Partners Scholarship 2002-2003.

Publications

Books/Book Chapters

• Srebric, J. 2005. “Indoor Environmental Control,” Chapter 14, Book 4, Energy and Power, Mechanical Engineers' Handbook, 3rd Edition, Edited by Myer Kutz, John Wiley & Sons,Inc., pp 531-553
• Srebric, J., 2005, “Indoor Environment Modeling,” Chapter 34, ASHRAE Handbook of Fundamentals 2005, Atlanta, GA., pp 34.6-34.14
• Srebric, J. 2004. “Architectural Engineering: Towards Practical Integration,” Cooperative Research Network, Edited by Tantasavasdi and Arkaraprasertkul, Ministry of Education, Bangkok, Thailand, 63 pages

Papers in Refereed Journals

• Vukovic, V., and Srebric, J. "Neural Network Locator of Contaminant Sources (LOCS) in Extraordinary Incidents," in preparation for Atmospheric Environment.
• Srebric, J., Yuan, J., and Novoselac, A. 2008. “In-Situ Experimental Validation of a Coupled Multi-zone and CFD Model for Building Contaminant Transport Simulations,” ASHRAE Transactions.
• Choi, J., Kim, Y., Sivasubramaniam, A., Srebric, J., Wang, Q., and Lee, Q. 2007. “A CDF-based Tool for Studying Temperature in Rack-mounted Servers” IEEE Transactions on Computers.
• Vukovic, V., and Srebric, J. 2007. “Application of Neural Networks Trained with Multi-Zone Models for Fast and Accurate Detection of Contaminant Sources in Buildings” ASHRAE Transactions, Volume 113(2).
• Srebric, J., Vukovic, V., He, G., and Yang, X. 2007. “CFD Boundary Conditions for Contaminant Dispersion Simulations around Human Occupants in Indoor Environments,” in press for a special issue of Building and Environment.
• Novoselac, A., Burley, B.J., and Srebric, J. 2006. “Development of New and Validation of Existing Convection Correlations for Rooms With Displacement Ventilation Systems,” Energy and Buildings, 38(3): 163-173.
• Davidovic, D., Srebric, J, and Burnett E. 2006. “Modeling Convective Drying of Ventilated Wall Chambers in Building Enclosures,” International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 45(2): 180-189.
• Novoselac, A., Burley, B.J. and Srebric, J. 2006. “New Convection Correlations for Cooled Ceiling Panels in Room with Mixed and Stratified Airflow,” Int. J. of HVAC&R Research, 12(2): 17 pages.
• He, G., Yang, X., and Srebric, J. 2005. “Removal of Contaminants Released from Room Surfaces by Displacement and Mixing Ventilation: Modeling and Validation,” Indoor Air: International Journal of Indoor Air, 15(5): 367-380.
• He, G., Yang, X. and Srebric, J. 2005. “Effects of Source Type and Location on Contaminant Dispersion in a Displacement Ventilated Room,” ASHARE Transaction, 111(1): 646-652.
• Yang, X., Srebric, J., Li, X. and He, G. 2004. “Performance of three air distribution systems in VOC removal from a full-scale room” Building and Environment, Volume 39(11):1289-1299.
• Zhai, Z., Srebric, J. and Chen, Q. 2003. "Prediction and Control of Chemical and Biological Agent Dispersion in Buildings," Int. J. of Ventilation, 2(3): 251-264.
• Novoselac, A. and Srebric, J. 2003. “Comparison of Air Exchange Efficiency and Contaminant Removal Effectiveness as IAQ indices” ASHRAE Transactions, 109(2): 339-349.
• Novoselac, A. and Srebric, J. 2002. "A Critical Review on the Performance and Design of Combined Cooled Ceiling and Displacement Ventilation Systems," Energy and Buildings, 34 (5): 497-509.
• Srebric, J. and Chen, Q. "An example of verification, validation, and reporting of indoor environment CFD analyses" ASHRAE Transactions, 108(2): 185-194.
• Chen, Q. and Srebric, J. "A procedure for verification, validation, and reporting of indoor environment CFD analyses" Int. J. of HVAC&R Research, 8(2): 201-216.
• Srebric, J. and Chen, Q. "Simplified numerical models for complex air supply diffusers," Int. J. of HVAC&R Research, 8(3): 277-294.
• Tantasavasdi, C., Srebric, J., and Chen, Q. 2001. "Natural ventilation design for houses in Thailand," Energy and Buildings, 33 (8): 815-824.
• Srebric, J. and Chen, Q. 2001. "A method of test to obtain diffuser data for CFD modeling of room airflow," ASHRAE Transactions, 107(2): 108-116.
• Chen, Q. and Srebric, J. 2000. "Application of CFD tools for indoor and outdoor environment design," Invited paper, Int. J. on Architectural Science, 1(1), 14-29.
• Srebric, J., Chen, Q., and Glicksman, L.R. 2000. "A coupled airflow-and-energy simulation program for indoor thermal environment studies," ASHRAE Transactions, 106(1), 465-476.
• Srebric, J., Chen, Q., and Glicksman, L.R. 1999. "Validation of a zero-equation turbulence model for complex indoor airflows," ASHRAE Transactions, 105(2), 414-427.

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

• Choi, J., Kim, Y., Sivasubramaniam, A., Srebric, J., Wang, Q., and Lee, Q. 2007. “Modeling and Managing Thermal Profiles of Rack-mounted Servers with ThermoStat,” The 13th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, HPCA-13, CD ROM, 11 pages, February 10-14, 2007, Phoenix, Arizona.
• Velasco, P.T.C., Srebric, J., and Berghage, R. 2007. “Thermal Performance of a Lightweight Tray for the Green Roof Media,” The Fifth Annual Greening Rooftops for Sustainable Communities Conference, CD ROM, 12 pages, April 29-May 1, 2007, Minneapolis, MN.
• Hu, B., He, G., Srebric, J., and Yang, X. 2005. “The Influence of Contaminant Source Area on CFD Simulations for Indoor Point Sources,” The 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, Indoor Air 2005, CD ROM, paper no. 229, 6 pages, Sept. 4-9, 2005, Beijing, China.
• Pinon, J., Burnett, E., Davidovic D. and Srebric, J. 2004. “The Airflow Characteristics of Ventilated Cavities in Screen-Type Enclosure Wall Systems,” Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Whole Buildings IX International Conference, CD ROM, 19 pages, ASHRAE 2004.
• Hu, H. and Srebric, J. 2004. “Indoor VOC source and sink modeling in multizone simulations of real buildings,” CIB World Building Congress 2004, CD ROM, paper no. 820, 11 pages, Toronto, Canada.
• Yuan, J. and Srebric, J. 2004. “Transient prediction of contaminant distribution by introducing energy load calculations into multi-zone modeling,” CIB World Building Congress 2004, CD ROM, paper no. 148, 11 pages, Toronto, Canada.
• He, G., Yang, X. and Srebric, J. 2003 . “Contaminant dispersion from an area source with displacement ventilation, ” Proceedings of ISHVAC 2003, CD ROM, 8 pages, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Oct.9-11, 2003.
• Novoselac, A. and Srebric, J. 2003. “Sensitivity study of parameters influencing IAQ indices” Proceedings of Ventilation 2003, Sapporo, Japan, pp.409-414.
• Yuan, J. and Srebric, J. 2002. “Improved prediction of indoor contaminant distribution for entire buildings,?Proceedings of ASME, New Orleans, Louisiana.
• Novoselac, A. and Srebric, J. 2002. "Influence of Different Pollutant Sources on Selection of Ventilation System in Offices with Cooled Ceiling", Proceedings of Indoor Air 2002, Monterey, California, USA.
• Srebric, J. and Chen, Q. 2001. "Boundary conditions for diffusers in room air distribution calculations," Proceedings of CLIMA 2000, Napoli, Italy.
• Yang, X. and Srebric, J. 2001. " Modeling the Performance of Different Ventilation Systems on VOC Removal in a Full-Scale Room," Proceedings of CLIMA 2000, Napoli, Italy.
• Srebric, J., Liu, J., and Chen, Q. 2000. "Experimental validation of jet formulae for air supply diffusers", Proceedings of ROOMVENT 2000 Conference, Vol. 1, pp. 529-534, Reading, U.K.
• Srebric, J., Chen, Q., and Glicksman, L.R. 1999. "A computer design tool for non-uniform indoor thermal environment problems," Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on HVAC: ISHVAC '99, Vol. 2, pp. 635-647, Shenzhen, China.

Other Major Publications

• Riley, D., Srebric, J., and, Boothby, T. 2006. “An Experimental Pedagogy in Sustainable Building Technologies: Integrating Teaching, Research and Public Scholarship,” Final Report to National Science Foundation (NSF), Grant Number EEC-0315638.
• Srebric, J. 2005. "An Indoor Environment Design Tool for Entire Buildings, " Final Report to National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Grant Number K01 OH007445.
• Burnett, E.F. and Srebric, J. 2003. “Partnership for Advancing Technologies in Housing: Moisture Control – Convective Drying in Residential Wall Systems.” Final Report to National Science Foundation (NSF), Grant Number CMS-0122062.
• Chen, Q. and Srebric, J. 2001. "How to verify, validate, and report indoor environment modeling CFD analyses," Final Report for ASHRAE RP-1133, 58 pages, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK and Department of Architectural Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, PA.
• Chen, Q. and Srebric, J. 2000. "Simplified diffuser boundary conditions for numerical room airflow models," Final Report for ASHRAE RP-1009, 181 pages, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
• Srebric, J. 2000. "Simplified Methodology for Indoor Environment Design," Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA.
• Chen, Q., Glicksman, L.R. and Srebric, J. 1999. "Simplified methodology to factor room air movement and the impact on thermal comfort into design of radiative, convective and hybrid heating and cooling systems," Final Report for ASHRAE RP-927, 184 pages, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Thesis Supervised

• Davidovic, D. 2007. “Improvement and Implementation of Simplified Turbulence Model for Airflow around Multiple Buildings,” in preparations for Fall 2007.
• Vukovic, V. 2005. “Real-Time Determination of Indoor Pollutant Source Location,” M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Architectural Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, December 2005, 118 pages.
• Hu, B. 2005. “The Role of the Thermal Boundary Conditions on the Numerical Prediction of Indoor Contaminant Distribution,” M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Architectural Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, May 2005, 83 pages.
• Novoselac, A. 2004. “Combined Airflow and Energy Simulation Program for Building Mechanical System Design,” Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Architectural Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, October 2004, 276 pages.
• Qian, Y. 2004. “Development of an Algebraic Turbulence Model for Airflow and Contaminant Simulations around a Building,” M.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Architectural Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, July 2004, 176 pages.
• Davidovic, D. 2004. “Convective Drying Potential of Ventilated Wall Cavity Systems in Building Enclosures,” M.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Architectural Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, April 2004, 255 pages.
• Yuan, J. 2003. “Effective Prediction of Air Distribution and Contaminant Transport in Entire Buildings by Coupling Multi-Zone, CFD and Energy Models,” M.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Architectural Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, August 2003, 80 pages.

Editorial Boards

• Editorial Board Member of Building Simulation: An International Journal, Tsinghua University Press and Springer, October 2007 – present.
• Associate Editor of HVAC&R Research Journal, American Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers, July 2007 – present.
• Editorial Board Member for Energy and Buildings, Elsevier Publication, 2007-2010.
• Editorial Board Member for International Journal on Architectural Science, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2007 – present.
• Editorial Advisory Board Member for the Annual Journal of Architectural Research and Studies (JARS), Thailand, August 2004 - present.

Conference Scientific Committees

• Member of the International Scientific Committee for the Indoor Air 2008 Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 17-22, 2008.
• Member of the International Scientific Committee of the first International Conference on Building Energy and Environment (COBEE), Dalian, China, August 4-6, 2008.
• Member of the International Scientific Committee for eSim 2008, IBPSA – Canada, Quebec City, Canada, May 21-22, 2008.
• Member of the International Scientific Committee for eSim 2006, IBPSA – Canada, Toronto, Canada, May 3-5, 2006.
• Member of the International Scientific Committee for the Indoor Air 2005 Conference, Bejing, China, September 4-9, 2005.
• Member of the International Scientific Committee for the Ninth International Building Simulation 2005 Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 15-18, 2005.
• Member of the International Scientific Committee for the Eight International Building Simulation 2003 Conference, Eindhoven, The Nederlands, August 11-14, 2003.

Other Committee and Professional Memberships

• Invited member of the steering committee to oversee and consult Advanced Buildings Program (ABP) at New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), 2006 - present.
• Elected Member of the Graduate Council, Penn State University, 2006-2008.
• Research Sub-Committee Chair for Technical Committee on Indoor Environment Modeling, ASHRAE, January 2006 - present
• Member of Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA), since July 2003
• Department Representative in the College of Engineering Environmental Institute at PSU, January 2002 - August 2007
• Member of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2001 - present
• Member of American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE) 1997 - present
• Voting Member of ASHRAE TC4.10 (Indoor Environmental Modeling) and TC5.3 (Room Air Distribution) 2002 - 2005
• Department Representative in the MIT Graduate Student Council, May 1999 - Aug. 2000
• Vice President of MOST - MIT Student Organization, Feb. 1999 - Aug. 2000
• President of MIT ASHRAE Student Branch, Oct. 1997 - Oct. 1998

Invited Lectures

• Srebric, J. 2007. “Opportunities for Integration of Human and Natural Systems through Research of Building Dynamic Systems,” School of Civil Engineering, Purdue, IN.
• Srebric, J. 2007. “Modeling of Transport Phenomena to Promote Sustainable Building Design,” Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, TX.
• Srebric, J. 2007. “Opportunities for Integration of Building Systems into Natural Environment to Promote Energy Efficiency and Improved Population Health,” Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, CA.
• Srebric, J. 2006. “Challenges and Perspectives for Numerical Simulations of Building Indoor and Outdoor Environments,” Applied Research Laboratory, The Penn State University, PA.
• Srebric, J. 2005. “The Role and Future of Simulation Tools in Sustainable Building Design,” Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University.
• Srebric, J. 2005. “Challenges and Perspectives for Numerical Simulations of Building Indoor and Outdoor Environments,” Engineering, Science, and Mechanics (EMS) Department, The Pennsylvania State University.
• Srebric, J. 2004. “Development of New HVAC Design Tools: Search for the Holy Grail of Ventilation Research,” Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, California.
• Srebric, J. 2004. “Airflow Simulations in Architecture Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD),” 3-day workshop and 2 public lectures: 1. “Architectural Engineering: Towards Practical integration” and 2. “How Architectural Design can Benefit from an Engineering Tool,” sponsored by the government of Thailand, Thammasat University and Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand.
• Srebric, J. 2002. “Fast and Reliable Prediction of Indoor Contaminant Distribution for the Entire Buildings", Syracuse University, NY.
• Srebric, J. 2002. "Effective CFD use in HVAC design of Healthy and Energy Efficient Buildings," Center for Research on Computation and its Application (CERCA), Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• Srebric, J. 2002. "Computational Fluid Dynamic in Building Design," University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
• Srebric, J. 2002. "Design Tools for Indoor Air Quality Control," Syracuse University, NY.
• Srebric, J. 2001. "Numerical Modeling of Contaminant Dispersion," ORNL DURIP review at the Applied Research Laboratory, PSU, PA.
• Srebric, J. 2001. "Coupled Energy and CFD Analysis for Ventilation System Design," De Montfort University, UK.
• Srebric, J. 2000. "Simplified Methodology for Indoor Environment Design," The Intelligent Workplace Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, PA.

Consulting Record

• Green Round Table, MA
• Bergmeyer Associates, MA
• Atelier Ten, NY
• ASHRAE, GA
• University of Michigan, College of Architecture + Planning, MI
• Sear-Brown, PA
• FabFlow, NH
• EnPlus, Yugoslavia