Kenneth Goodson

Ken Goodson is the Vice Provost for Graduate Education & Postdoctoral Affairs and the Davies Family Provostial Professor at Stanford University, where he holds appointments in Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Materials Science and Engineering. His 60 PhD graduates are distributed among IC companies and professorships at schools including MIT, Princeton, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UIUC, Purdue, and UCLA. Goodson is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow with ASME, IEEE, APS, AAAS, and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Awards include the ASME Kraus Medal, the inaugural IEEE Richard Chu Award, the 2017 InterPACK Achievement Award, the AIChE Kern Award, and the SRC Aristotle, Technical Excellence, and University Researcher Awards. Goodson has 35 patents and co-founded Cooligy, which built heat sinks for Apple desktops. He served formerly as Stanford Mechanical Engineering Chair and recruited 15 faculty who transformed the department’s scholarship and di