Dr. Jim Wilson is currently an Engineering Fellow with Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems in Dallas, Texas and the section manager for the mechanical analysis section of Raytheon�s Advanced Product Center. Jim has 26 yrs. experience in electronics cooling of microwave systems and other military electronic products. He has spent a substantial portion of his career responsible for phased array radar thermal management with topics ranging from thermal design at the microwave integrated circuit level, directed research for advanced thermal interface materials, engineered material for enhanced thermal conduction, as well as overall cooling system design. The challenges of cooling radar systems have included a large portion of the electronics cooling heat transfer spectrum; conduction with advanced materials, liquid cooling, radiation cooling of satellite systems, and the challenges represented by the need to manage both maximum temperatures and the temperature distribution.

Dr. Wilson has been active in professional thermal management societies and is currently an associate editor of Electronics Cooling magazine. Jim is an active member of the steering committee for the annual IEEE Semitherm conference. He has six thermal design patents and has authored or co-authored over 25 papers in the field of electronics thermal management including invited papers at government workshops sponsored by NASA and the Office of Naval Research. He received his BSME from Texas Tech, MSME from Stanford, and Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University. As part of his dissertation, he developed numerical techniques to rapidly simulate transient temperatures in GaAs MMICs.