Dr. Hee-Koo Moon is currently a professor (특임교수-객원교수) at Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea), responsible for teaching thermal engineering and gas turbine related courses, mentoring graduate students, conducting researches, and cooperating with industry. Before joining the university, he was Head of the Heat Transfer & Internal Air Systems Branch at Solar Turbines Incorporated (USA), a solely owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Company. He was managing/leading heat transfer engineers responsible for preliminary and detailed heat transfer designs, analysis and experimental/test validation of entire engine thermal management systems and secondary flow circuits, which include combustor thermal design/analysis, turbine airfoil/disk cooling systems, transient tip clearance and transient thermal displacement analyses. He was also responsible for defining the heat transfer/cooling technology strategy and processes, and for directing advanced heat transfer technology programs at both in-house (company heat transfer laboratory) and universities.As well as being invited to present papers and serving as session chairs/vanguard chairs at international conferences, Dr. Moon has also given invited lectures at universities and research institutes in the U.S.A., South Korea, Taiwan and China.He has co-authored over 160 papers in international journals and conferences (refereed). He is a fellow of ASME and active in the Heat Transfer Committee of the International Gas Turbine Institute. He is a co-inventor of 10 US patents and 3 more in pending.Ph.D. (1987), M.S. (1980), B.S. (with honor in 1978) all from Arizona State University