Work in Progress: Development of a Need-based BME Design Course Focused on Current NICU Challenges

Pamela Norris is the Frederick Tracy Morse Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia and the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Programs. A native Virginian, she received her Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1992 working in the area of heat transfer in diesel engine cylinder heads. She then served as a Visiting Scholar and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley from 1993-1994, where she developed her interests in microscale heat transfer and aerogels while working in the laboratory of Chang-Lin Tien. In 1994 Pam joined the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at UVA where she received a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 1995, was promoted to Professor in 2004, was named the Frederick Tracy Morse endowed chair in 2010, and she accepted the Associate Dean position in early 2012.