Faculty
Center Director
Dr. Justin Weibel
Mechanical Engineering
Founding Director
Dr. Suresh V. Garimella
Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering
► Amy Marconnet appointed as Associate Director of Purdue University's Semiconductor Degrees Program (SDP)
► Davide Ziviani appointed as Co-Director,Purdue Institute for Energy Innovation (IEI)
► Davide Ziviani awarded the School of Mechanical Engineering Ruth and Joel Spira Award
► Davide Ziviani awarded the School of Mechanical Engineering Ruth and Joel Spira Award
► Xiulin Ruan recieves the 2026 Heat Transfer Memorial Award
► Davide Ziviani recognized as a 2026 Purdue Engineering Emerging Research Leader
► Riley Barta awarded College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award
► Tim Persoon recognized with the 2025 Harvey Rosten Award
► Justin Weibel recieves the ASME K16 Clock Award
► Amy Marconnet is General Chair of the 2025 IEEE ITherm Conference
► Justin Weibel named a University Faculty Scholar (2025-2030)
► Neera Jain recieves the Rudolf Kalman Best Paper Award from ASME DSCD
► Ganesh Subbarayan recieves the 2024 Richard Chu Award for Excellence in Thermal and Thermo-Mechanical Management of Electronics
► Tiwei Wei awarded the 2024 Intel Rising Star Faculty Award
► Thomas Beechem recognized with the 2024 College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Award for Early Career Research
► Xiulin Ruan recieves the 2024 ASME McDonald Mentoring Award
► Xiulin Ruan recieves the 2023 Discovery in Mechanical Engineering Award
► Amy Marconnet promoted to Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering
► Davide Ziviani promoted to Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
► Amy Marconnet promoted to Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering
► Liang Pan promoted to Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering
► Eckhard Groll receives the F. Paul Anderson Award from ASHRAE, the society's highest honor.
► Justin Weibel elected Fellow of ASME
► Neera Jain receives 2023 Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the ASME DSCD.
► Xiulin Ruan receives the 2023 Brillouin Medal for four-phonon scattering
► Carol Handwerker named inaugural member of the U.S. Department of Commerce Industrial Advisory Committee (IAC)
► Ganesh Subbarayan earns the Technical Excellence Award from Semiconductor Research Corporation
► Ivan Christov recognized as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for the 2022-2023 Academic Year
► Xiulin Ruan and Justin Weibel awarded College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Mentor
