Dr. Luz Amaya joined CCSU’s Department of Engineering as an Assistant Professor in August 2012. She was granted tenure in 2017 and she was promoted to an Associate Professor in August 2018. Before joining CCSU, she was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at New York City College of Technology. Her PhD was granted by the Graduate Center, CUNY for her work on dynamic behavior of multiphase flows in microchannels. Dr. Amaya earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees from City College, CUNY. Her teaching and research interests include multiphase flow systems, computational fluid dynamics, and numerical methods.