Cristina H. Amon

Cristina H. Amon received her M.S. and Sc.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985 and 1988, respectively. She was the Raymond J. Lane Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Director of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems at Carnegie Mellon University until 2006 when she joined the University of Toronto as the Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, and the Alumni Chair Professor in Bioengineering of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. She has received numerous awards for research and education, including the ASEE George Westinghouse Award in 1997, SWE Distinguished Engineering Educator in 1999, ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award in 2000, ASEE Ralph Coats Roe Award in 2002, ASME Electronics and Photonics Packaging Division Clock Award in 2003 and EPPD Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Engineering and Science of Thermal Management of Electronics in 2004.  She has contributed eleven book chapters, one McGraw Hill Custom Textbook, and over 200 refereed articles in education and research literature.

Cristina Amon has served as Chair of the ASME HTD K-16 Committee on Electronics Cooling, executive member of the ASME Electronic and Photonic Packaging Division, and is the Chair of AAAS Engineering. Her editorship roles have included the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technology, and Heat and Mass Transfer. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and is a Fellow of ASME, AAAS, ASEE and IEEE.