Srebric Named Margaret G. and Frederick H. Kohloss Chair in Mechanical Engineering
Professor Jelena Srebric has been selected as the inaugural Margaret G. and Frederick H. Kohloss Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Established through a generous gift from Margaret and Frederick Kohloss (B.S. '43), this endowed chair recognizes a faculty member who has not only made significant contributions in their field, but has also demonstrated entrepreneurial efforts and leadership in engineering beyond their field, and provides significant financial support for both research and education endeavors. Srebric is Director of the University of Maryland’s (UMD) Center for Sustainability in the Built Environment (CITY@UMD), which she helped establish with the mission to revolutionize the physical infrastructure systems in cities. Through the center, she manages and directly supervises research activities for approximately $1.2 million annually in externally funded projects. Her team includes seven graduate students and seven undergraduate students in addition to one post-doc and one associate research faculty. Through her work in CITY@UMD, Srebric is not only at the forefront of research aimed at improving multi-scale modeling of built infrastructure to provide reliable assessments of how these systems affect occupant populations, energy consumption and associated CO2 emissions.
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Kohloss started his own business, Frederick H. Kohloss & Associates, Inc. in 1957, designing HVAC, plumbing and electrical infrastructure for clients from architects to the military. He served as ASHRAE president and volunteered on standards committees throughout his career. Beyond the main office in Honolulu, the company had branches around the Pacific and the mainland USA before being sold to Lincoln Scott in Australia in 1991.