Personnel
Mauricio A. Salinas received his B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas – Pan American in his home town of Edinburg, Texas (1996). He then received an M.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering with a depth in heat transfer from Stanford University (1998).
Each summer while an undergraduate and masters candidate, Mauricio served as an intern at the NASA Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The bulk of his experience at NASA dealt with micro gravity combustion. Upon graduation from Stanford, Mr. Salinas accepted a position in the Thermal Design Group of Raytheon TI Systems, where he currently holds the position of Principal Mechanical Engineer. His experience includes the thermal design of night vision cameras, advanced airborne processors and radar systems, ground based military electronics, and anti-iced radomes.
Mauricio is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Texas – Arlington under Raytheon’s Full Study Program. He is working under the supervision of Prof. S.M. You in the Micro-scale Heat Transfer Lab and his dissertation deals with two-phase heat transfer within porous media. Mr. Salinas is currently serving as Chair of the ASME NTS Electronics and Photonics Packaging Division (EPPD) and is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.