Dr. Patrick McCluskey (Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA) is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. He conducts research at the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) in the areas of thermal management, reliability, and packaging of electronic systems for use in extreme temperature environments and high power applications. Dr. McCluskey has published more than 100 refereed technical articles on these subjects, and has edited three books. He has also served as technical chairman for multiple international conferences and workshops. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging. Dr. McCluskey has performed extreme temperature and power electronics research and provided consulting and short courses for companies in the aerospace, automotive, motor drives, energy exploration and generation, and defense industries. He is a fellow of the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS), and is a member of ASME, IEEE, and SAE.