Amir Faghri is an American professor and leader in the engineering profession as an educator, scientist, administrator, and CEO.
20 Facts About Amir Faghri
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Amir Faghri served as Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department from 1994 to 1998, and Dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Connecticut from 1998 to 2006.
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Amir Faghri is well known for his contributions to the field of heat transfer.
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Amir Faghri is the world's leading expert in the area of heat pipes and a contributor to thermal-fluids engineering in multiphase heat transfer.
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Amir Faghri is the author of six books and has published more than 350 archival technical publications, including 245 journal papers.
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Amir Faghri holds eleven US patents related to heat pipes, energy storage devices, and fuel cells.
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Amir Faghri serves on the editorial boards of eight scientific journals, including the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, the International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Heat Transfer Engineering, and Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer in roles such as executive editor, editor-in-chief, founding editor, and honorary editorial board member.
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Amir Faghri started his academic career at Aryamehr University in 1976.
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Amir Faghri was one of the founding faculty members and administrators who established Isfahan University of Technology in 1977.
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Amir Faghri served on the faculty of IUT until 1980 as the founding director of its Energy Division.
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Amir Faghri developed a nationally recognized heat transfer group and laboratory at WSU, interacting extensively with NASA and the US Air Force.
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Amir Faghri joined the University of Connecticut in 1994 and served as Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department from 1994 to 1998, United Technologies Corporation Chair Professor in Thermal-Fluids Engineering from 2004 to 2010, and Dean of the School of Engineering from 1998 to 2006.
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Amir Faghri doubled the number of undergraduate degree programs from 6 to 12.
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Amir Faghri was the founder of the Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center at the University of Connecticut.
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Amir Faghri joined the University of California, Los Angeles in 2022.
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Amir Faghri was elected as a director of the public Company RBC Bearings Incorporated in May 2022.
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Amir Faghri has been a longtime fellow of the ASME and an elected member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.
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Amir Faghri was inducted to the Oregon State University Council of Distinguished Engineers in 1999.
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Amir Faghri was the recipient of the George Grover Medal that was given at the 19th International Heat Pipe Conference in Pisa, Italy in June 2018.
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Amir Faghri has achieved the Number 1 lifetime ranking among all scholars worldwide in heat pipes by ScholarGPS.