Lesley Wright

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]

References

  1. ^ "Lesley Wright", Mechanical engineering people, Texas A&M University J. Mike Walker '66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, retrieved 2025-06-24
  2. ^ a b c "Wright, Lesley", Scholars@TAMU, Texas A&M University, retrieved 2025-06-24
  3. ^ Wright, Lesley Mae (2006), Experimental investigation of turbine blade platform film cooling and rotational effect on trailing edge internal cooling (Ph.D. thesis), Texas A&M University, hdl:1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1826
  4. ^ Dennis, Regina (April 25, 2015), "Baylor building support networks for women in STEM", Waco Tribune, archived from the original on 2018-07-09
  5. ^ Honors and Awards Program Book (PDF), AIAA, January 2025, p. 52, retrieved 2025-06-24
  6. ^ "Mechanical Engineering Professor Lesley Wright Honored with 2015 SAE International Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award", News & Events, Baylor University, February 26, 2015, retrieved 2025-06-24
  7. ^ Kuhlmann, Steve (November 2, 2021), Wright named American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fellow, Texas A&M University Engineering, retrieved 2025-06-24
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