Professor Culham is a Research Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He is the director and a founding member of the Microelectronics Heat Transfer Laboratory. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Waterloo, with a research focus in the areas of analytical and experimental modeling of conjugate heat transfer for microelectronics applications.

Current research interests include modeling and characterization of contacting interfaces, development of analytical and empirical models at micro- and nano-scales, optimization of electronics systems using entropy generation minimization and the characterization of thermophysical properties in electronics materials.

Professor Culham has over 50 publications in refereed journals and conferences in addition to numerous technical reports related to microelectronics cooling. He is a member of ASME, IEEE and the Professional Engineers Association of Ontario. He is also a member of the ASME K16 Committee on Heat Transfer in Electronic Equipment and the Thermal Program Chair for ITHERM 2000.

Dr. Yovanovich is a Professor of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo and is the founder of the Microelectronics Heat Transfer Laboratory. His research in the field of thermal modelling includes analysis of complex heat conduction problems, natural and forced convection heat transfer from complex geometries, and contact resistance theory and applications

Dr. Yovanovich has published more than 300 journal and conference papers and numerous technical reports. He has been a consultant to several North American nuclear, aerospace and microelectronics industries and national laboratories.

Peter Teertstra is a research engineer who joined the Microelectronics Heat Transfer Laboratory in 1993 after receiving a Masters degree for his numerical study of steady-state and transient heat conduction for oblate spheroids with mixed boundary conditions. Peter has participated in the development of analytical heat transfer models for microelectronics applications and the programming of many of these models into web-based online tools. He has also aided in the development of heat transfer analysis software, and is responsible for numerical simulations using commercial software packages, including FLOTHERM. His research interests include analytical modelling of convection and conduction heat transfer, and numerical CFD modelling.

Peter has participated in 5 journal publications, 9 conference papers and 8 technical reports. He and his co-authors received the 1994 AIAA Thermophysics Best Paper Award for the paper "Modeling Transient Conduction from Isothermal Convex Bodies of Arbitrary Shape".

Pete is currently enrolled in a part-time Doctoral program in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, where he is studying natural convection heat transfer in enclosures for microelectronics applications.

Yuri joined the Microelectronics Heat Transfer Labortatory in the fall of 1993 after receiving a B.Eng. from Memorial University of Newfoundland. He completed his master's thesis in the summer of 1995 and his Ph.D. thesis in the winter of 1999. Presently, he has accepted a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) postdoctoral fellowship for a period of two years.

Yuri's master's thesis examined the effect of transient thermal stresses in bimaterial systems, while his Ph.D. thesis examined fluid friction and heat transfer in compact heat heat exchangers. He is now pursuing post doctoral research in the area of thermal modelling and optimization of compact heat exchangers and heat sinks.

Research interests include: Conduction and Convection Heat Transfer, Heat Exchangers, Enhanced Heat Transfer, Microelectronics Cooling, Thermal Optimization, and Tribology.

Mirko Stevanovic is a Masters degree candidate who joined the Microelectronics Heat Transfer Laboratory in the fall 1997 after receiving a B.Eng. from University of Nis, Serbia. His undergrad thesis involved extensive thermal analysis, which led to the optimum design of a 232kw capacity air heater.

Mirko's research area is in the thermal contact resistance. His research includes the modeling of thermal constriction resistance of sphere-layered substrate in elastic contact.

His research interests include conduction and convection heat transfer and microelectronics cooling.

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