Amanie Nassif Abdelmessih is an Egyptian-American engineering educator specializing in mechanical engineering and heat transfer. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at California Baptist University. [1]
Abdelmessih was educated in Egypt at Alexandria University, where she received her bachelor's degree in 1972 and a master's degree in 1979, both in chemical engineering. She completed her Ph.D. in 1987 at Oklahoma State University. Her dissertation, Laminar flow heat transfer downstream from U-bends, was supervised by Kenneth J. Bell. [2]
She began her academic career at Northrop University. She taught at Saint Martin's University in Lacey, Washington as an associate professor from 1997 to 2002, and as a full professor from 2002 to 2013, [1] before taking her present position at California Baptist University in 2013. [3]
The Puget Sound Engineering Council named Abdelmessih as their Academic Engineer of the Year for 2005. [4] [5] She was the 2009 recipient of the Distinguished Engineering Educator Award of the Society of Women Engineers. [6]
In 2020 the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) named her as an ASME Fellow. [7]