Professor Incropera received his B.S.M.E. (1961) from M.I.T. and his M.S.M.E. (1962) and Ph.D. (1966) from Stanford University, all in mechanical engineering. Except for research leaves spent at NASA-Ames (1969), U.C. Berkeley (1973-74) and the Technical University of Munich (1988), he was with Purdue University from 1966 to 1998. He was promoted to Full Professor in 1973 and was Chairman of the Heat and Mass Transfer Area of Mechanical Engineering from 1976 to 1985. He was Assistant Dean of Engineering for Graduate and Research Programs from 1987 to 1989 and was Head of the School of Mechanical Engineering from 1989 to 1998. In 1998, he became the Matthew H. McCloskey Dean of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and served in that capacity until 2006. In 2007 he was a visiting professor at MIT and is now the Clifford and Evelyn Brosey Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Notre Dame. He has had a long-standing interest in energy conversion and has authored or co-authored 13 books and more than 200 archival journal articles on related topics. He has received the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Ralph Coats Roe Award for excellence in teaching (1982), the ASEE George Westinghouse Award for achievements in teaching and research (1983), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Heat Transfer Memorial Award (1988), the Melville Medal for the best original paper published by ASME (1988), and the Worcester Reed Warner Medal of ASME (1995). He received the Senior Scientist Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 1988 and in 1996 was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. In 2001 he was named by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the 100 most frequently cited engineering researchers in the world. He is a Fellow of ASME and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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