Ethan Languri is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in the State of Tennessee, and Director of the Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) at Tennessee Tech University. Dr. Languri served as Associate Director of IAC from 2014 to 2021 and Assistant Professor from 2014 to 2022. Before joining Tennessee Tech in 2014, he was a Senior Mechanical Engineer at Applied Research Associates in Florida, where he was involved with building energy design and analysis.

Dr. Languri received his Mechanical Engineering B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Noshirvani University of Technology in Iran in 2005 and 2007, respectively. He then went on to earn his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2011. Following this, he held postdoctoral fellowship appointments at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.