Associate Professor

Program Director SPARTAN SPARK

Program Director Project Engineering Success: ENG SUCCESS

Email

Preferred: liat.rosenfeld@sjsu.edu

Telephone

Preferred: (408) 924-4051

Office Hours

Spring 25: Mondays 1:30 - 2:30 PM or by appointment

Office

ENG 385G

Education

• B.Sc. Chemical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
• M.Sc. Chemical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
• Ph.D Chemical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Bio

Academic Appointments

• Post-doctoral scholar, Stanford University

Honors and Awards

• 2016-: Editorial Board Physics of Fluids
• 2007: The Wolfson Department of Chemical Engineering graduate award for excellence.
• 2006: The Reznik Prize for excellence in environmental study and research.

Teaching 

• CHE 190: Introduction to Transport Phenomena (Undergraduate, Fall)
• CHE 219: Advanced Transport Phenomena (Graduate, Fall)
• CHE 160A: Unit Operations in Chemical Engineering (Undergraduate, Spring)
• CHE 110A: Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering (Undergraduate, Spring)
• CHE 110B: Computational Methods in Chemical Engineering (Undergraduate, Fall)
• New Course Coming Fall 2025: CHE 001 - Design of Coffee (GE, areas B1+B3)

Research and Scholarly Interests

• Carbon capture and Sequestration
• Bio-sequestration of CO2 in microalgae
• Flow patterns in micro-droplets and cells
• Hydrate formation at oil-water interfaces
• Biofuel production from wastewater
• Carbon capture and storage through sequestration 
• VR in CHE labs
• Engineering Education

Links

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gtBydcsAAAAJ&hl=en

SJSU Coffee Lab

SPARTAN SPARK

Research Experience for Teachers: SJSU RET

Project Engineering Success: ENG SUCCESS