Leading the InterPACK

Deogratius Kisitu ’21 MSME, ’24 PhD (center), a graduate research assistant in Mechanical Engineering, was honored in the fall with the InterPACK Intel Outstanding Paper Award, presented by Saket Karajgikar (left) and Przemyslaw Gromala of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Given for the best overall paper at the 2022 ASME International Electronics and Photonics Packaging Conference (InterPACK), the award was shared with co-authors Carol Caceres ’24 PhD, a fellow graduate student in Mechanical Engineering; adviser Al Ortega, PhD, the James R. Birle Professor of Energy Technology; and industry partners from ERG Aerospace Corp. The team’s paper addressed using novel compressed metallic foams for advanced two-phase cooling of modern, high-heat-flux electronics.