Donald C. Price, Ph.D., P.E. is Industry Professor of Mechanical
Engineering and Director of the Electronic Packaging Program and the Manufacturing
Systems Management Program within the Mechanical Engineering Department.
Dr. Price was formerly a Principal Engineering Fellow at Raytheon Electronic
Systems, a military electronics contractor. Dr. Price has more than 32
years experience in the electronic packaging industry.
Dr. Price received the BSME and MSME degrees from Southern Methodist
University and the PhD degree from Oklahoma State University. Dr. Price
served as a member of the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department
at Southern Methodist University from 1965 to 1970 and left, as an Associate
professor, for a position in industry. While employed at Texas Instruments
and Raytheon, Dr. Price served as an Adjunct Professor from
1985 until 2006. In December of 2006, Dr. Price
retired from Raytheon and joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at
SMU on a full-time basis.
Donald C. Price, Ph.D., P.E.
Director - Packaging and MSM
While employed at Texas Instruments and Raytheon, Dr. Price was responsible
for the thermal management of a wide range of Raytheon products, including airborne
missile systems, airborne- and ground-based electro-optics systems, and phased-array
radar systems. This activity involved thermal model simulations of military
systems and the computer-aided design of coldplates and heat exchangers. The
work also includes the thermal design of airborne electronic pods cooled by
vapor-cycle or air-cycle refrigeration systems.
Dr. Price has been a member of a number of University Industry Advisory Boards,
including the SMU Mechanical Engineering Department Board for Knowledge, where
he served as chair of the curriculum committee. Dr. Price is a member of several
technical and professional societies: ASME, IEEE, AIAA, IMAPS, TSPE, NSPE, and
ASEE. The ASME North Texas Section (NTS) Electronic and Photonic Packaging Division
(EPPD) selected Dr. Price as Engineer-of-the-Year for 1997, and the ASME NTS
selected him as the Engineer-of-the-Year for 1998. The Dallas Chapter of the
Texas Society of Professional Engineers honored Dr. Price as Engineer-of-the-Year
for 2001-02. Dr. Price was further honored as an ASME Fellow in 2002 and was
designated as an ASME Life Fellow in 2004. Dr. Price served as Chairman of the
ASME North Texas Section Industry Advisory Board from to 2006.
At the national level of ASME, he has been a member of the K-16 Committee
on Heat Transfer in Electronic Systems since 1996. He served as Vice-Chair of
this committee from 2000 to 2003 and as Chair from 2003-05. Dr. Price has been
a member of the ASME Electronic and Photonic Packaging Division (EPPD) since
1996. He became a member of the EPPD Executive Committee in 2001 and served
the executive committee as Secretary from 2002-03, Treasurer from 2003-04, Vice-Chairman
from 2004-05, and Chairman for 2005-06. Dr. Price served the ASME InterPack
Conference as a Session Chair in 1997, Thermal Management Track Chair in 1999,
Conference Program Chair in 2001, and General Chair of the conference in 2003.
Dr. Price currently serves as a technical reviewer for the ASME J. of Heat Transfer
and the ASME J. of Electronic Packaging.
As an employee of Raytheon, Dr. Price has been issued five US patents and
three foreign patents. In addition, he is co-inventor of two US Patent applications,
which are currently pending. He has published numerous technical papers in referred
journals and conference proceedings, and he has made technical presentations
at society conferences. Dr. Price has made numerous presentations on professionalism
(Ten Keys to a Successful Engineering Career) to a wide variety of engineering
and student groups. Dr. Price has been married to his wife, Barbara, for almost
49 years, and they consider themselves fortunate to have been parents to four
children and are most proud of their seven grandchildren.
