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Book Chapters/Sections

• J.T. McLeskey, Jr., “2D Vector Instruction Activity - The Shover and the Shovee,” in Reading to Learn in the Content Areas, by J.S. Richardson and R.F. Morgan, Wadsworth, pp. 393-396, 1999.
• James T. McLeskey, Jr., “Turbo-generator Rotor Cooling Calculation” in Heat Transfer Calculations, ed. Myer Kutz, McGraw-Hill, Chap. 7, 2006.

Classes Taught

• ENGR 591 Energy Conversion Systems
• ENGR 301 Fluid Mechanics
• EGRM 204 Thermodynamics

Conference Proceedings

• J.T. McLeskey, Jr., A. T-Laforet, D.R. Snow, and J.V. Matthews III, “Generator Rotor Replacement by a Third Party Manufacturer,” Conference Papers of Power-Gen Americas ’95, Anaheim, CA, Vol. 4, pp. 391-401, 1995.
• J.T. McLeskey, Jr. and P.M. Norris, “Femtosecond Energy Diffusion Studies of Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells,” Proceedings of the Virginia Space Grant Consortium 2000 Student Research Conference, pp. 177-181, 2000.
• James T. McLeskey, Jr. and Donald A. Jordan, “Novel Methods of Increasing Student Interest in Fluid Mechanics,” Proceedings of the National Educator’s Workshop, 2003.
• B. K. Nayak, J. McLeskey, J. A. Anna Selvan, B. Eaton, M. C. Gupta, R. Romero and G. Ganguly, “Semiconductor laser crystallization of a-Si:H” Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 4977, 2003, p 377-380.
• Justin M. Costley and James T. McLeskey, Jr., “Diagonal-Flow, gap-pickup generator rotor heat transfer model,” Proceedings of IMECE'03: 2003 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Washington, D.C., November 16-21, 2003.
• James T. McLeskey, Jr., John E. Speich, Judy Richardson and Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, “The Creation of an Experiential Engineering Library,” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, June, 2004.
• Qiquan Qiao and James T. McLeskey, Jr., “PTEBS applications in photovoltaic devices,” Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Quantum Solar Energy Conversion, Quantsol 2005, Rauris, Austria, March 14-18, 2005.
• Qiquan Qiao, James Beck, and James T. McLeskey, Jr., “Photovoltaic Devices from Self-doped Polymers,” Proceedings of the SPIE, San Diego, August 2005.
• Qiquan Qiao and James T. McLeskey, Jr., “Optimization of photovoltaic devices from layered PTEBS and nanocrystalline TiO2,” Proceedings of the Electro Chemical Society, Los Angeles, October 2005.

Current Projects

• Experimental Investigation of Nanoparticle Entrainment Processes – Philip Morris, USA
• The Experiential Engineering Library – NSF
• Diagonal-Flow, Gap-Pickup Generator Rotor Heat Transfer Model – Alstom Power
• Photovoltaics from Polymer/Quantum Dot Composites – VCU School of Engineering
• Alignment of TiO2 Nanoparticles in Polymer Films – U.S.-Egypt Joint Research Board

Education

• B.S. in Physics, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 1986
• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, 1989
• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2003

Journal Publications

• J.T. McLeskey, Jr. and P.M. Norris, “Femtosecond Transmission Studies of a-Si:H, a-SiGe:H and a-SiC:H Alloys Pumped in the Exponential Band Tails,” Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Vol. 69(2), pp. 165-173, 2001.
• J.T. McLeskey, Jr. and P.M. Norris, “Femtosecond Transmission Studies of N-type and P-type Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Pumped in the Exponential Band Tails.” Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, Vol. 318, pp. 254-261, 2003.
• P.M. Norris, A.P. Caffrey, R. Stevens, J.M. Klopf, J.T. McLeskey, and A.N. Smith, “Femtosecond Pump-Probe Nondestructive Evaluation of Materials.” Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 74, pp. 400-406, 2003.
• John E. Speich, James T. McLeskey, Jr., Judy Richardson and Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, “The Experiential Engineering Library,” International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 20(6), 2004.
• J.T. McLeskey, Jr. and P.M. Norris, “The Femtosecond Energy Diffusion Sensor: A Non-contact Tool for Photovoltaic Characterization”ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Vol. 127, pp. 131-137, February 2005.
• B. K. Nayak, B. Eaton, J. A. Anna Selvan, J. McLeskey, M. C. Gupta, R. Romero and G. Ganguly, “Semiconductor laser crystallization of a-Si:H on conducting tin oxide coated glass for solar cell and display applications”, Applied Physics A, 80 (5): 1077-1080 February 2005.
• Jared A. Rud, Leah S. Lovell, Jeremy W. Senn, Qiquan Qiao, and James T. McLeskey, Jr., “Water soluble polymer/carbon nanotube bulk heterojunction solar cells,” Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 40(6), pp. 1455-1458, March 2005.
• Qiquan Qiao and James T. McLeskey, Jr., “Water-soluble polythiophene /nanocrystalline TiO2 solar cells,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 86, p. 153501, 2005.
• Qiquan Qiao, Lianyong Su, James Beck, and James T. McLeskey, Jr., “Characteristics of Water Soluble Polythiophene:TiO2 Composite and its Application in Photovoltaics,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 98, p. 094906, 2005.
• Qiquan Qiao, James Beck, Ryan Lumpkin, Jake Pretko, and James T. McLeskey, Jr., “A Comparison of Fluorine Tin Oxide and Indium Tin Oxide as the Transparent Electrode for P3OT/TiO2 Solar Cells,” Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Vol. 90, pp. 1034-1040, 2006.
• James T. McLeskey, Jr., John E. Speich, Judy Richardson and Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, “Evaluation of an Experiential Engineering Library,” International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 22(2), pp. 247-256, 2006.
• James T. McLeskey, Jr. and Qiquan Qiao, “Hybrid Solar Cells from Water-Soluble Polymers,” International Journal of Photoenergy, Vol. 2006, Article ID 20951, 6 pages, 2006.

Other Presentations

• “Generator Retrofits,” ALSTOM Power Users Symposium, Washington D.C., July 2002.
• “Femtosecond Energy Diffusion Studies of Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells” presented at Forum 2001 Solar Energy: The Power to Choose while receiving the 2001 Graduate student from the Solar Energy Division of ASME, Washington, D.C., April 2001.
• Ramin Mortazavi, Timothy Cameron, James T. McLeskey, Jr., and Mohammad Hajaligol, “Reentrainment of Submicron Solid Particles from Inside Cylindrical Surfaces,” Poster presented at the 5th Philip Morris USA Symposium on Fundamental Science, October 2003.
• Jared A. Rud, Leah S. Lovell, Jeremy W. Senn, Qiquan Qiao, and James T. McLeskey, Jr., “Water soluble polymer/carbon nanotube bulk heterojunction solar cells,” presented at the International Conference on the Physics, Chemistry, and Engineering of Solar Cells (SCELL-2004), Badajoz, Spain, May 14, 2004.
• Ramin Mortazavi, Timothy Cameron, and James T. McLeskey, Jr., “Reentrainment of Submicron Solid Particles,” Poster presented at the 6th Philip Morris USA Symposium on Fundamental Science, October 2004.
• James T. McLeskey, Jr. and Qiquan Qiao, “Hybrid Solar Cells from Water-Soluble Polymers,” The 9th International Conference on Solar Energy and Applied Photochemistry [SOLAR ’06], Cairo, Egypt, January 2006 (invited keynote address).
• 09/25/2006 nic Solar Cells from a Water-Soluble Polymer and Nanocrystalline TiO2,” Presented at the Virginia Nanotech 2006, Newport News, VA, June, 2006.
• Srirupa Ganguly and James T. McLeskey, Jr., “Adhesion and Resuspension of Sub-micron particles from Surfaces in Turbulent Flow,” Presented at the Virginia Nanotech 2006, Newport News, VA, June, 2006.
• James T. McLeskey, Jr., “Using WSPs to create new solar cell technologies,” Presented at the Intertech-Pira Conference on Water-Soluble Polymers, Scottsdale, AZ, June, 2006 (Invited talk).

Research Topics

• Optical characterization of semiconductor materials
• Engineering education
• Energy conversion systems
• Power generation
• Photovoltaic materials and devices