​Dr. Emad Tanbour has more than 24 years of combined experience in mechanical engineering in both academia and industry. His industry experience spans over 18 years in the areas of product development, energy efficient appliances and sustainability, thermal systems design and engineering management. He is an expert researcher in industry and had been leading industry-academia funded research since 1997. Dr. Tanbour is an innovator with over 13 US pending and issued patents all of which resulted in products sold in North America. Most of his innovations are in the field of sustainable design of domestic and commercial appliances. Dr. Tanbour has advanced knowledge of computer aided engineering, CFD and computational mechanics. He is an expert user and trainer of computer aided design using solid modeling. He has conducted research in the areas of heat transfer, thermal-fluids, and energy systems and led many years of research and development projects in the interdisciplinary areas of mechanical engineering. He received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and ranked third over his cohort and received full scholarship to pursue graduate studies towards his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Iowa. During his studies at Iowa, Dr. Tanbour led the thermal design of all control circuits for NASA Cassini spacecraft that was launched to Saturn. Dr. Tanbour is the recipient of Arch T. Colwell Award from Society of Automotive Engineers and had served for five years as an ABET industry consultant. He also received EMBA training courses at the University of Iowa.​​