Dr. SA Sherif has been on the faculty of the University of Florida since 1991 and is currently a tenured Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is the Founding Director of the Wayne K. and Lyla L. Masur HVAC Laboratory, the Director of the UF Industrial Training and Assessment Center, the Director of the UF Mobile Energy Laboratory, and the Director of the UF Center for Defect Engineering of Energy Materials (UF-CDEEM). He served as Co-Director of the US-DOE-funded Southeastern Center for Industrial Energy Intensity Reduction (2009-2013). Prior to joining the faculty at UF, he served on the faculties of the University of Miami (1987-1991) and Northern Illinois University (1984-1987). He is a Life Fellow of ASME, a Life Fellow of ASHRAE, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a Fellow of the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE), an Associate Fellow of AIAA, a Vice President of Commission B-2 on Refrigerating Equipment and a Member of Commission B-1 on Thermodynamics and Transfer Processes and Commission C2 on Food Science and Engineering of the International Institute of Refrigeration, a Member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy, and a Founding Member of the Board of Directors and Vice President for Programs of the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE). He is the 2013-2014 Chair of the ASME Heat Transfer Division and a member of the ASME’s Basic Engineering Group Operating Board (2010-2014). He is also the 2002-2003 Chair of the ASME Advanced Energy Systems Division, and a past chair of the K-19 Committee on Environmental Heat Transfer of the ASME Heat Transfer Division (2003-2007) and the Coordinating Group on Fluid Measurements (1992-1994) and the Fluid Applications and Systems Technical Committee (2008-2010) of the ASME Fluids Engineering Division. He is also a past chair of the Steering Committee of the Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference (2001-2003), ASHRAE’s Standards Project Committee 41.6 on Measurement of Moist Air Properties (1989-1994), and ASHRAE’s TC1.1 Committee on Thermodynamics and Psychrometrics (2012-2013). He also served as a member of the ASME’s Energy Resources Group Operating Board (2001-2003) and was the Board’s representative to the ASME’s International Mechanical Engineering Congress Committee (2003-2006). He was the Head of the Refrigeration Section of ASHRAE (2004-2008), the Technical Conference Chair of both the 2008 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference and the 12th AIAA/ASME Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference (2018), a member of the ASME Frank Kreith Energy Award Selection Committee (2005-2011), and the General Conference Chair of the 2013 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference. He also served as the Technical Conference Co-Chair of the 2nd ASTFE Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (2017) and the Technical Discipline Chair of the 2019 AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and the 2020 and 2026 AIAA Science and Technology Forum. Dr. Sherif has been serving as an ABET Program Evaluator (PEV) in Mechanical Engineering since 2019.
Dr. Sherif currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering (2020-2028). He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications (2014-2019), a Special Editor for the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, a Subject Editor of Solar Energy (2004-2021), a Subject Editor of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2005-2011), an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (2007-2011), an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications (2011-2014), a Guest Editor for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society-A (London), and a Book Review Editor of ASME’s Applied Mechanics Reviews (2001-2008). He is on the editorial boards of 25 other thermal science journals such as the International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Heat Transfer – Asian Research, the International Journal of Energy for a Clean Environment, and Nature’s Scientific Reports. He has served as member or chair of over 60 administrative and technical committees in six professional societies, 400 conference organizing or scientific committees, and as chair or member of over 350 master’s and doctoral committees. Dr. Sherif has given over 250 invited lectures worldwide. He is the recipient of the E.K. Campbell Award of Merit from ASHRAE in 1997 for “outstanding service and achievement in teaching” and a “TIP” teaching award from the University of Florida in 1998. In 2000, 2004, and 2007, he was selected by the University of Florida as an Anderson/CLAS Scholar Faculty Honoree. He is the recipient of the ASME Dedicated Service Award (2026), the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award (2025), the ASME Frank Kreith Energy Award (2024), the ASME Heat Transfer Division 75th Anniversary Medal (2013), ASHRAE Exceptional Service Award (2010), ASHRAE Distinguished Service Award (2003), the Kuwait Prize in Applied Sciences (2001), and Best Paper Awards from AIAA (2005) and ASME (2005). He is the recipient of three “Certificates of Recognition for Research Contributions” from NASA, a Premium of Academic Excellence (PACE) Award from Iowa State University, 4 research awards from the University of Miami, and a “Graduate Research and Artistry Award” from Northern Illinois University. He has received certificates of appreciation from the ASME Board of Governors, Heat Transfer Division, Solar Energy Division, Advanced Energy Systems Division, Fluids Engineering Division, ASME’s International Mechanical Engineering Congress Committee, the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME), ASHRAE, AIAA, ASTFE, and numerous conference-organizing committees. In 2007, he received a Superior Accomplishment Award from the University of Florida’s Office of the Provost. In 2008, he was elected an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer. In 2018, he was awarded a UF Research Foundation Term Professorship (2018-2021) and in 2021 was awarded an MAE Excellence Term Professorship. Dr. Sherif is one of five professors university-wide to receive the 2025-2026 University of Florida Faculty Doctoral Mentoring Award. He has 190 refereed journal papers, one book, 23 edited bound volumes, 25 book chapters, 195 conference papers, 300 technical reports, and two US patents.