Amy Marie Marconnet is an American mechanical engineer and an expert in heat transfer, especially for nanoscale materials. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University. Her research has included the development of graphene-based tunable thermal climate control systems for batteries and electronics,[1] and the effects of heat in straightening hair.[2]

Education and career

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Marconnet studied mechanical engineering as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, graduating in 2007. She went to Stanford University for graduate study in mechanical engineering, earned a master's degree in 2009, and completed her Ph.D. in 2012.[3] Her doctoral dissertation, Thermal phenomena in nanostructured materials & devices, was supervised by Kenneth E. Goodson.[4]

After postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she joined the Purdue University faculty in 2013.[3] She was promoted to full professor in Purdue's School of Mechanical Engineering 2024.[5] At Purdue, she is also a Perry Academic Excellence Scholar and holds a courtesy appointment in the School of Materials Engineering.[1]

Recognition

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In 2017, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Electronics and Photonics Packaging Division named Marconnet as their Woman Engineer of the Year.[6] In 2020 she received the Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer of the ASME Heat Transfer Division, "for the development of a creative, interdisciplinary approach to evaluate, understand and control the physical mechanisms governing the thermal transport properties of materials, machines and systems".[7] She was elected as an ASME Fellow in 2022.[8]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Beyond on and off: Purdue engineers create continuously tunable thermal regulators for batteries and electronic devices", TechXplore, June 12, 2023, retrieved 2024-08-23
  2. ^ Yang, Ina (August 4, 2015), Straighten Your Hair Without Frying It? Engineers Are On The Case, WBUR, retrieved 2024-08-23
  3. ^ a b "People", Marconnet Thermal & Energy Conversion Lab, Purdue University, retrieved 2024-08-23
  4. ^ Marconnet, Amy Marie (2012), Thermal phenomena in nanostructured materials & devices, Stanford University, retrieved 2024-08-23
  5. ^ "Trustees approve faculty promotions, tenured faculty transferring from IUPUI to Purdue West Lafayette", Purdue News, Purdue University, April 5, 2024, retrieved 2024-08-23
  6. ^ "Marconnet Receives ASME Honor", Engineering Impact, Purdue University, Spring 2018, retrieved 2024-08-23
  7. ^ "Awards & Lectures", IMECE 2020, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, retrieved 2024-08-23
  8. ^ All Fellows (PDF), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, March 2024, retrieved 2024-08-23
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