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Frank P. Incropera is the McCloskey Dean of the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering Notre Dame Indiana. Dr. Incropera has worked for the Lockheed Missiles and Space and the Aerojet General Corporations and except for research leaves spent at NASA-Ames U.C. Berkeley and the Technical University of Munich he was with Purdue University for more than 30 years. He was promoted to Full Professor and was Chairman of the Heat and Mass Transfer Area of Mechanical Engineering. He was Assistant Dean of Engineering for Graduate and Research Programs and was Head of the School of Mechanical Engineering.In 1998 Dr. Incropera became the Clifford and Evelyn Brosey Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He has directed numerous sponsored programs and has authored or co-authored 11 books and more than 200 archival journal articles. Dr. 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 20 years of research accomplishments in the fields of plasma heat transfer radiative transfer in participating media and double-diffusive and mixed convection.In 1988 Dr. Incropera received of the Senior Scientist 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.Dr. Incropera received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T. and his master’s degree and Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.Dr. Incropera joined the Modine Board of Directors in 1999. | 