Amanie Abdelmessih

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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]

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Education and career

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]

Recognition

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]

References

  1. 1 2 "Amanie Abdelmessih, Ph.D.", Faculty directory, California Baptist University, retrieved 2025-07-19
  2. Abdelmessih, Amanie Nassif (1987), Laminar flow heat transfer downstream from U-bends (Ph.D. thesis), Oklahoma State University, hdl:20.500.14446/14251
  3. "Amanie Abdelmessih", ORCiD, retrieved 2025-07-19
  4. Academic Engineer of the Year, Puget Sound Engineering Council, retrieved 2025-07-19
  5. "St. Martin's faculty honored", The Catholic Northwest Progress, vol. 108, no. 7, February 17, 2005, retrieved 2025-07-19
  6. "Congratulations to the FY2009 SWE Award Recipients", Reaching New Levels of Success: 2009 Annual Report (PDF), SWE, p. 3, retrieved 2025-07-19
  7. All Fellows (PDF), ASME, March 2025, retrieved 2025-07-19