SEMI-THERM is pleased to announce Alfonso Ortega, Ph.D. as the recipient for the Harvey Rosten Award for his paper “An Investigation of Multi-Layer Mini-Channel Heat Sinks with Channel Geometric Sponsored by Mentor Graphics, Mechanical Analysis Division.”
Dr. Al Ortega is the James R. Birle Professor of Energy Technology at Villanova University and the Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Thermal and Fluid Systems. For more than 25 years he has been a leading researcher in the area of electronics cooling fundamentals and applications and a teacher of the fundamentals of fluid flow and heat transfer and the design of thermal-fluid systems. He has published and lectured widely on air and liquid-cooling of electronics and experimental methods. He is a former General Chair of SEMI-THERM and received its 2003 ”Thermi” Award. He is currently Associate Technical Editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer and a co-Principal Investigator in the new NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems(E3S).
