David Warsinger

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Warsinger earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Prior to starting his Ph.D., he worked at the engineering consulting firm Arup, where he performed energy and sustainability analysis and designed heating and cooling systems. Before joining Purdue, he had joint postdocs at MIT and Harvard University. Dr. Warsinger is the co-author of 22 published and six submitted journal and conference papers and a co-inventor of 13 filed or awarded patents.

He also is involved with entrepreneurial endeavors, including demonstrating batch reverse osmosis with MIT startup Sandymount and co-founding Coolify, a startup providing refrigeration via phase-change thermal storage for farmers in developing economies.