Purdue Notebook

August 8, 1997
Faculty and Staff Honors
-- Issam Mudawar, professor of mechanical engineering, has been named Fellow of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Mudawar has received numerous teaching
awards, including Purdue's Charles B. Murphy Award for Outstanding Teaching. Mudawar
is internationally known for his research on novel heat transfer mechanisms for electronics
and avionics, nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics and intelligent materials processing.
He is director of the Boiling and Two-Phase Flow Laboratory and the High Heat Flux
Research Center. He also is president of Mudawar Thermal Systems, a research and development
firm in the Purdue Business and Technology Center that provides solutions to complex
thermal management problems in aerospace devices.
Compiled by J. Michael Willis, (765) 494-0371; e-mail, mike_willis@purdue.edu
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