Culp assumes at-large post on ASHRAE Board of Directors

Charles Culp, professor of architecture at Texas A&M, will help chart the course for a worldwide building technology society as a new member of its board of directors and chairman of its Technical Activities Committee.

Culp, elected as a director-at-large for [ASHRAE] (http://www.ashrae.org/home/) , the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, will serve a three-year term on the board of directors beginning July 1, 2012. He will also sit on ASHRAE's Technology Council.

ASHRAE advances the arts and sciences of heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigerating to serve humanity and promote a sustainable world. Its members pursue this goal by focusing on building systems, energy efficiency, indoor air quality and sustainability through research, standards writing, publishing and continuing education.

As chairman of ASHRAE’s Technical Activities Committee, Culp will support the work of more than 100 of the organization’s technical committees, task groups and technical resource groups.

A member of the Texas A&M faculty since 1999, Culp’s interests include technology education, improving the comfort and energy efficiency of existing buildings, involving students in research, combining architecture with affordable technology to achieve high performance residential and commercial buildings, measurement and verification technology and air flow technology.

He is a faculty adviser for ASHRAE's Texas A&M University Student Branch, has served as president of the ASHRAE College of Fellows, and has chaired several other committees, including TC 9.5, Residential and Small Building Applications and TC 1.5, Computer Applications. Additionally, he served on the Technology Council, Society Rules Committee and the Guideline Project Committee 14-2002R, Measurement of Energy and Demand Savings.

Culp earned a Bachelor of Science (1970) in physics from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and a doctorate in solid state physics with a minor in electrical engineering (1975) from Iowa State University.