McCluskey Bio

PATRICK MCCLUSKEY (M: 1985, SM: 2015) (B.S.(’84) Lafayette College; M.S.(’86) and Ph.D. (’91), Materials Science and Engineering, Lehigh University) is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park and the Mechanical Engineering Department’s Division Leader for Electronic Products and Systems.  He has over 25 years of research experience in the areas of thermal management, reliability, and packaging of electronic systems for use in extreme temperature environments and power applications.  Dr. McCluskey has published three books and over 125 peer-reviewed technical articles with over 2000 citations, including over 40 articles in IEEE journals and major EPS conferences, such as ECTC and iTHERM.  He has also served as technical program or general chair of IEEE conferences on high temperature electronics and integrated power electronic packaging, as well as being the organizer of the President’s panel session on Power Module Integration at ECTC 2016, and panel sessions at ITHERM and ITEC.  Dr. McCluskey has provided a short course on integrated thermal packaging of power electronics at ECTC and iTHERM since 2013, along with short courses at IWIPP and 3D-PEIM.  He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology, and of Microelectronics Reliability.  He is a senior member of IEEE and the chair of the EPS Technical Committee on Energy and Power Electronics.  He has also served as IEEE EPS representative to the Future Car Workshop.  He is a fellow of IMAPS and a member of ASME and TMS/AIME.