Honors and Awards: Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) - 1991, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Assoc. Fellow - 2003, ASME Edward F. Obert Award in Thermodynamic - 1992 and 2010, Guest Professor Chinese Academy of Sciences - from 2013
Research Expertise: Thermal Sciences and Energy Conversion | Fluid Mechanics | Water Desalination | Sustainability
Noam's research interests are in heat transfer and fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and Second-Law/Exergy analysis, energy conversion, solar energy, combustion, membrane distillation, flash evaporation and water desalination, destruction of hazardous wastes by photocatalysis and supercritical oxidation, scientific sustainability analysis, and heat treatment.
Education:
PhD Mechanical Engineering 1973 - University of California at Berkeley
MS Mechanical Engineering 1966 - Technion in Israel
BS Mechanical Engineering 1962 - Technion in Israel
Recent Publications 
- Thermal hybrid power systems using multiple heat sources of different temperature: Thermodynamic analysis for Brayton cycles, Yue, T. | Lior, N., Energy, 2018
- Quantitative sustainability analysis of water desalination – A didactic example for reverse osmosis, Lior, N. | Kim, D., Desalination, 2018
- Sustainability as the quantitative norm for water desalination impacts, Lior, N., Desalination, 2017
- INSTRUMENTATION PRINCIPLES FOR SOLAR HEATING PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT., Lior, Noam, International Telemetering Conference (Proceedings), 2017
- COLLECTOR ARRAY STUDIES., Lior, Noam | Yeh, Hsuan, Gateway Energy Conference, 2017