Peter Raad

Peter Raad, Ph.D.,P.E.

Founder, The GuildHall at SMU
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, SMU

Peter E. Raad holds the Linda Wertheimer Hart Professorship and is a Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Southern Methodist University. In 1999-2000, he founded the Linda and Mitch Hart eCenter as a university-wide center dedicated to helping business and society address the intended and unintended consequences of interactive network technologies and the Internet in particular. In 2002, he founded The Guildhall at SMU, a novel, industry-university cross-disciplinary, graduate program designed to educate and train future practitioners and innovators in the fast-growing field of digital game development. He served as Director of the Hart eCenter and Executive Director of The Guildhall at SMU until May 2012. Previously, he served as the Associate Dean of the SMU School of Engineering.

Prof. Raad has received several awards, including four times the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, twice the Outstanding Undergraduate Faculty Award, the 1999-2000 ASME North Texas Section Engineer of the Year, the 2006 Harvey Rosten Award for Excellence in electronic thermal analysis, and Next-Gen’s Top 25 most influential people in the video gaming industry in 2007.

Dr. Raad has published over 50 journal articles and made over 100 conference and invited talks. He holds US and international patents in thermal metrology and computational characterization of multi-scale integrated circuits. He has received over $2.5M in funding support for his research in tsunami mitigation and in metrology of submicron electronics. In 2006, he founded TMX Scientific to innovate and commercialize deep submicron thermal measurement systems and ultra-fast thermal computational engines.

He is a Fellow of ASME and a Senior Member of IEEE. He received his BSME, MS, and PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville.