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Roger Stout, P.E., is a Research Scientist and charter employee of ON Semiconductor. He received his BSE in Mechanical Engineering at Arizona State University in 1977, and went on as a Hughes Fellow to earn his MSME at the California Institute of Technology in 1979. He then joined Motorola in the equipment engineering side of the semiconductor business, which after about four years evolved into factory automation and control engineering. In about 1990, he took on the responsibility for thermal characterization of ASIC products. In his 36 year career, Roger has authored and coauthored 60 technical papers, the vast majority related to thermal characterization of semiconductor devices. Many have been presented at industry conferences, several published in peer-reviewed journals, and a number appear as “Application Notes” on the ON Semiconductor web site. In turn, Roger has been a peer reviewer for a number of technical conferences and journals. Over the past decade, Roger has contributed articles to trade magazines, and created and presented thermal seminars and tutorials for a number of industry conferences, including ITherm (2004, 2010), SemiTherm (2005), APEC (2006, 2008, & 2011), the Automotive Electronics Reliability Workshop (2007), InterPACK (2007), and the Power Electronics Technology Exhibition & Conference (2007). Two of his 1 hour seminars (on the subjects of Linear Superposition and Thermal Runaway) were published in late 2006 by IEEE on their Expert Now educational web site, and variations on these two tutorials are also available through ON’s external web site. He has also presented versions of these seminars at a number of ON customer/marketing “tech days” around the country and in Europe. He provided the Keynote speech to the Semi-Therm Executive Briefing in 2013, with a follow-up webinar with Electronics Cooling Magazine (for whom he has also recently begun a semi-regular blog). Roger holds six patents, and has been a registered Professional Engineer (Mechanical) in the state of Arizona since 1983. He lives in a very energy-efficient custom-designed and built monolithic thin-shell concrete dome house, partially powered by photovoltaic panels. His current vehicles include two Prius’s, but from 2010-2013 he drove "Electric Blue" Tesla Roadster #1014 on his daily commute. Over those 3 years and 30000 miles, his PV array produced 77% more energy than he used in the Roadster.
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