Dr. Amy Fleischer

 

Dr. Amy Fleischer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Villanova University, and Director of the Villanova Thermal Management Lab (NovaTherm). She is currently also serving as the Vice-Chair of the ASME International Technical Committee on Electronics Cooling (HTD-K16).

During 2003, she spent a term in Berlin as a visiting scientist in the Advanced Systems Engineering Department of the Reliability and Microintegration Division (IZM) of the Fraunhofer Institute.

Education
2000     Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota

1996     MME, Villanova University

1991     BME, Villanova University

 

Research Interests

 

Thermal management of advanced electronics including wireless systems, portable electronics, and high-performance industrial, consumer and military electronics.  Thermal issues in electronics packaging.  Fluid dynamics of impinging jets.  Flow visualization techniques. Micro-scale thermal transport.

 

Dr. Fleischer has received numerous research grant awards, from such agencies as the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research.   A list of her publications and research activity is available by using the research link at left.

 

Selected Professional Activities

 

This unique conference provided a forum for the exchange of ideas, results and industrial needs in thermal phenomena related to electronics cooling. The two keynote lectures featured Raj Yavaktar (Intel fellow) and Shiego Kubota (Senior Vice President and Corporate Executive President, Sony Corporation) who both spoke at length on the thermal challenges facing their companies.  Four invited talks in selected emerging areas from leading experts in industry (H. Hosack, SRC; S. Yi, Samsung; M. Mochizuki, Fujikura; B. Sen, Sun Microsystems) were complemented with 37 contributed papers organized into eight technical sessions.  A conference highlight was the eight panel discussions focused on technology and market trends and identification of research challenges. Each panel featured both industrial and academic panelists. All keynote, invited and contributed papers were published in a 428 page book and CD-ROM which was distributed to all participants, and is also separately available from the publisher: THERMES 2007: Thermal Challenges in Next Generation Electronic Systems, Proceedings of THERMES 2007 conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 7-10, 2007, Suresh V. Garimella and Amy S. Fleischer, Eds., Millpress, Netherlands, 2007.

 

 

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