Bio:
Peter E. Raad received the BSME (with Honors), MS in mechanical
engineering, and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of
Tennessee at Knoxville. In 1986, he joined the mechanical engineering
department at SMU. He currently holds the rank of Professor and is the
Linda Wertheimer Hart Director of the Linda and Mitch Hart eCenter at SMU.
The eCenter aims to stimulate, facilitate, and support innovative
multi-disciplinary activities that enable the creative and responsible
development and use of interactive network technologies. Under his
leadership, the Hart eCenter incubated The Guildhall at SMU, a novel
industry-university collaborative educational program designed from the
ground up to educate and train future practitioners and innovators in the
fast-growing field of digital game development. The program underscores
the belief that the arts and sciences of interactive media, which resides
at the intersection of information technology and cognitive sciences, is
the 21st centuryfs mode of human discovery and expression. Prior to
becoming the founding director of the Hart eCenter and the founding
Executive Director of the Guildhall, Prof. Raad served as the Associate
Dean of the SMU School of Engineering, in charge of all academic affairs,
research and graduate studies, and computer operations. He later served
part of an academic year as acting Dean during a time of transition for
the school. He has taught courses in the thermal and fluid sciences, and
his research in these areas combines computational and experimental
investigations. Between 1990 through 1993, he held the J. Lindsay Embrey
Trustee Professorship in Engineering, an endowed chair for an outstanding
junior faculty member. He has received several awards, including four
times the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, twice the Outstanding
Undergraduate Faculty Award, and the Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award. In
1999-2000, he was named the ASME North Texas Section Engineer of the Year.
Prof. Raad has published over 40 articles and over 100 conference papers.
He has received over $2.5M in funding and support from, among others, NSF,
TI, Raytheon, TriQuint Semiconductor, Chrysler Technologies, Isonics, and
Marlow Industries. In 1995, he founded the Submicron Electro-Thermal
Sciences Laboratory dedicated to the adaptive thermal modeling of
submicron electronic devices and laser-based measurements for thin-film
materials used in high-performance ICs. He also does research in tsunami
mitigation and fluid wave interactions with solid structures. Prof. Raad
has served as an associate editor for the ASME Journal of Fluids
Engineering as well as a frequent reviewer for NSF, ASME Transactions,
IEEE Transactions, Journal of Computational Physics, and Physics of
Fluids. He is a Fellow of ASME, Senior Member of IEEE, and member of APS
and Sigma Xi. In 1979, he was elected a member of the Tau Beta Pi
Engineering Honor Society. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the
State of Texas.