Information About Author and Website

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.

The purpose of the website is to provide students with additional resources for the different classes that Dr. Amaya teaches at CCSU. The resources include lecture videos for Computational Methods for Engineering and Computer Aided Design. In addition, there are videos for examples and problems for Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics.