James Petroski is the owner of Design by Analysis Technical Consulting LLC. He has worked in the area of electronics packaging for nearly 40 years and has a special focus on thermal and mechanical engineering of packages and electronic systems. His background includes equipment design for naval nuclear propulsion instrumentation and controls, NASA space flight experiments (with three shuttle flights of space hardware), computer systems/enclosures, handheld commercial and industrial products, graphite thermal materials and applications, LED lighting systems, and packaging of die and die/substrate systems. He received his Bachelor’s in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and an MS degree in Engineering Mechanics from Cleveland State University.






