Ramesh Agarwal receives 2025 WSSET Innovation Award
The award honors outstanding contribution to innovative and sustainable research
Ramesh Agarwal, the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has received the 2025 Innovation Award for outstanding contribution to innovative and sustainable research in renewable energy systems from the World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies (WSSET).
WSSET’s annual Innovation Awards recognize the achievements of private individuals and organizations in sustainable energy technologies and encourage their wider application. A global nonprofit society, WSSET is dedicated to replacing harmful energy systems with clean, renewable alternatives that benefit both people and the planet.
Prior to joining WashU in 2001, Agarwal was chair of the aerospace engineering department at Wichita State University from 1994 to 1996 and the executive director of National Institute for Aviation Research from 1996 to 2001. From 1994 to 2001, he was also the Bloomfield Distinguished Professor at Wichita State University.
Previously, Agarwal held various scientific and managerial positions at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis, at NASA Ames Research Center and at Rao and Associates.
Throughout his 50-year career, Agarwal has established himself as an expert in computational fluid dynamics, computational magnetohydrodynamics and electromagnetics, computational aeroacoustics, multidisciplinary design and optimization, rarefied gas dynamics and hypersonic flows, bio-fluid dynamics, turbomachinery and pumps, flow and flight control, chemical looping combustion and carbon capture, utilization and sequestration.
He is the author and coauthor of more than 600 publications and four books on diverse engineering subjects in aerospace, energy and environment, and serves on the editorial board of more than 20 journals. Agarwal serves on many professional, government and industrial advisory committees and is a fellow of 28 professional societies.