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Marconnet studied mechanical engineering as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, graduating in 2007. She went to Stanford University for graduate study in mechanical engineering, earned a master's degree in 2009, and completed her Ph.D. in 2012. [3] Her doctoral dissertation, Thermal phenomena in nanostructured materials & devices, was supervised by Kenneth E. Goodson. [4]
After postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she joined the Purdue University faculty in 2013. [3] She was promoted to full professor in Purdue's School of Mechanical Engineering 2024. [5] At Purdue, she is also a Perry Academic Excellence Scholar and holds a courtesy appointment in the School of Materials Engineering. [1]
In 2017, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Electronics and Photonics Packaging Division named Marconnet as their Woman Engineer of the Year. [6] In 2020 she received the Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer of the ASME Heat Transfer Division, "for the development of a creative, interdisciplinary approach to evaluate, understand and control the physical mechanisms governing the thermal transport properties of materials, machines and systems". [7] She was elected as an ASME Fellow in 2022. [8]
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