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 Professor Frank
Incropera
Dean, College of Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Professor Incropera received his B.S.M.E.
(1961) from M.I.T. and his M.S.M.E. (1962) and Ph.D. (1966) from
Stanford University, all in mechanical engineering. He has worked
for the Lockheed Missiles and Space and the Aerojet General
Corporations, and except for research leaves spent at NASA-Ames
(1969), U.C. Berkeley (1973-74) and the Technical University of
Munich (1988), he was with Purdue University from 1966 to 1998. He
was promoted to Full Professor in 1973 and was Chairman of the Heat
and Mass Transfer Area of Mechanical Engineering from 1976 to 1985.
He was Assistant Dean of Engineering for Graduate and Research
Programs from 1987 to 1989 and was Head of the School of Mechanical
Engineering from 1989 to 1998. In 1998, he became the Matthew H.
McCloskey Dean of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, as
well as the Clifford and Evelyn Brosey Professor of Mechanical
Engineering. His research has been involved with free and mixed
convection, double-diffusive convection, boiling and two-phase flow,
materials processing, and electronic cooling. He has directed
numerous sponsored programs and has authored or co-authored 11 books
and more than 200 archival journal articles. Professor Incropera has
received four major Purdue teaching awards and was the 1982
recipient of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE)
Ralph Coats Roe Award for excellence in teaching. He was the 1983
recipient of the ASEE George Westinghouse Award for achievements in
teaching and research. In 1984 he became a Fellow of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and in 1988 he received the
ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award for twenty years of research
accomplishments in the fields of plasma heat transfer, radiative
transfer in participating media, and double-diffusive and mixed
convection. In 1988 he was also recipient of the Senior
Scientists Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and
recipient of the Melville Medal for the best original paper
published by ASME. In 1995 he received the Worcester Reed Warner
Medal of ASME for contributions to the fundamental literature of
heat transfer and his textbooks on the subject. In 1996, he was
elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his research
on the science and practice of heat transfer and for contributions
to engineering education. In 2001 he was named by the Institute
for Scientific Information as one of the 100 most frequently cited
engineering researchers in the world.
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