Author Archive for Robert Simons

Editorial: Looking Back

November 22nd, 2011

In the editorial in the fall issue of ElectronicsCooling, my good friend and colleague Clemens Lasance wrote, “It is the privilege of an editor to discuss any subject that comes to mind, as long as…read more

Calculation Corner: A Useful Catalog of Calculation Corner Articles

September 8th, 2011

The first issue of ElectronicsCooling magazine was published in June 1995 with Kaveh Azar as Editor-in-Chief. In 1997 Bruce Guenin joined ElectronicsCooling as an Associate Editor. In the September issue, he published the first Calculation…read more

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Calculation Corner: Measuring Heat Load to Water in a Rear Door Heat Exchanger Application

June 13th, 2011

For almost 10 years now, the increasing heat loads in data centers have been recognized as a growing problem [1]. One of the approaches that has been effective in attacking this problem is the introduction…read more

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Calculation Corner: Using Vendor Data to Estimate Thermoelectric Module Cooling Performance in An Application Environment

July 26th, 2010

The application of thermoelectric devices to cool electronic components has been of interest to thermal engineers for many years. Thermoelectric (TE) cooling modules offer the potential to either reduce component operating temperatures at a given…read more

Change and Communication

August 1st, 2009

We live in an age of change. Of course this is not new, the history of the human race has been one of change and adaptation throughout the ages. However, it seems that never before…read more