Adrienne S. Lavine (born 1958)[1] is an American mechanical engineer specializing in heat transfer, thermal energy, and energy storage, and known as a coauthor of several widely used textbooks on heat transfer.
She is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, director of the UCLA Modeling of Complex Thermal Systems Laboratory, and a former associate vice provost at UCLA.
After working for two years at Owens Corning in Columbus, Ohio, she returned to graduate study in mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley,[2] completing her Ph.D. in 1984.
[4] Lavine is a coauthor of books including: Lavine was a 1988 winner of the Presidential Young Investigator Award,[3] and received the F. W. Taylor Medal of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP) in 1990.
[6] Lavine is married to Gregory Small, a screenwriter and film producer who graduated with her from Brown University in 1979; they have two children.