Dereje Agonafer, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Distinguished University Professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington, has been named by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as a recipient of its prestigious Heat Transfer Memorial Award.
The award honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of heat transfer in teaching, research, practice, and design through publications, patents or inventions. Awards are given annually in three categories: the science of heat transfer, the art of heat transfer and the general subject of heat transfer.
Agonafer received the award in the art of heat transfer category for outstanding contributions to robust thermo/mechanical design of microelectronics systems, particularly for promoting the use of computational fluid dynamics in the upstream phase of design and enabling concurrent electrical and thermal design, which reduced both lead time and cost.