Lesley Wright
American mechanical engineer
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Lesley Mae Wright is an American mechanical engineer, and an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University, where she is Jana and Quentin A. Baker ’78 Faculty Fellow. Her research concerns heat transfer, especially in the cooling of gas turbines.[1][2]
Education and career
Wright received a bachelor's degree in engineering, with a concentration in mechanical engineering, from Arkansas State University in 2000. She went to Texas A&M University for graduate study in mechanical engineering, receiving a master's degree in 2002 and completing her Ph.D. in 2006.[2] Her dissertation, Experimental investigation of turbine blade platform film cooling and rotational effect on trailing edge internal cooling, was supervised by Je-Chin Han.[3]
She became an assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona, the first female professor in the department.[4] Next, she became a faculty member of the mechanical engineering department at Baylor University for ten years, before returning to Texas A&M as a faculty member.[2]
Recognition
Wright was the 2012 recipient of the Abe M. Zarem Faculty Award in Aeronautics of the AIAA,[5] and the 2015 recipient of the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award of SAE International, given for her work with Baylor University students in the Baja SAE off-road vehicle competitions.[6]
She was named as an ASME Fellow in 2021.[7]