1. TODD DICKEY, PHD., PE
Phone: 310-773-9866 Email: heatpipe.geo@yahoo.com
CAREER SUMMARY
Excellence in communication, problem solving engineering methodology and mentoring. Resource for
the Space Superiority Program Office by managing technical support personnel, providing project
direction and mentoring members of the technical staff and military. Lead specific high impact projects in
both classified and open programs. Ph.D. in the thermal fluid sciences (heat transfer, fluid dynamics and
thermodynamics) with an analytic background supported by experimental verification.
EDUCATION
PhD, Mechanical Engineer, Texas A&M University
MS, Mechanical Engineer, Texas A&M University
BS, Mechanical Engineer, Purdue University
CLEARANCES
TS/SCI, DoD Top Secret, COMSEC
CAREER HISTORY
The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA 1997 - Current
Worldwide leader and specialist in spacecraft design, development and launch support.
Senior Project Engineer, Space Superiority Program Office 2013 - Current
Provided Project Engineering leadership in various subsystems, testing, sell offs, acquisition and
mission assurance activities.
- Space IPT Co-lead
- Provide leadership to the space IPT
- Organize and direct person to complete tasks
− Set expectations
− Provide recommendations for improvements
− Identify finale product
- Present technical findings to senior management and customers
- Space Systems Integrated Product Team Lead
- Thermal, Structures, Mechanisms, Propulsion
- Satellite acquisition design reviews, selloffs and manufacturing anomaly investigations
- Identify and organize technical support personnel
- Lead Space Systems Requirements Verification
- Over 1600 requirements and 3000 documents reviewed in under one year
- Managed 30 technical and program office staff for the review
- Reviewed, coordinated and provided responses to the technical review with the customer
- Launch vehicle acquisition
- Maintain knowledge/understanding of LR activities
- Brief management on booster schedule and any issues impacting launch readiness
- Conduct specialized technical studies
- Provide technical advice to management, customers and associated contractors (Scitor, Linquest,
Booz Allen, Orbital Sciences Corporation, etc.)
- Initiate development of advanced analytical techniques, concepts and design criteria
- Mentor less experienced personnel both Air Force and Aerospace Corporation

2. Senior Project Engineer, Australia International Lead, WGS Program Office, 2008 - 2013
Lead the WGS Communications Satellite international Australia effort and the acquisition of the
WGS-6 satellite.
- Manage/direct project teams within the WGS Program Office
- On orbit anomaly resolution
- Satellite acquisition design reviews, selloffs and manufacturing anomaly investigations
- Identify and organize technical support personnel
- Present technical findings to senior management and customers
- Ground system representative from WGS Program Office
- Reviewed design, development and installation of ground system in Australia including
information assurance, sustainment, training and requirements
- Perform as the POC for PM DCATS, PM WIN-T and ARSTRAT in the satellite acquisition
community
- Provide expert technical advice
- Heat Transfer
- Fluid Mechanics
- Thermodynamics
- Launch vehicle acquisition
- Maintain knowledge/understanding of LR activities
- Brief management on booster schedule and any issues impacting launch readiness
- Write tasks and scope of work for The Aerospace Corporation’s support to SMC on the WGS-6
satellite effort (Technical Objectives and Plans)
- Provide launch and early-orbit-activity support
- Conduct specialized technical studies
- Provide technical advice to management, customers and associated contractors (Scitor, FCI,
Linquest, Boeing, TRW, Lockheed Martin, etc.)
- Initiate development of advanced analytical techniques, concepts and design criteria
- Serve as the WGS program office acquisition representative during meetings with other
government agencies both domestic and foreign
- Provide technical review for ITAR compliance
- Mentor less experienced personnel both Air Force and Aerospace Corporation
Engineering Specialist, Spacecraft Thermal Department El Segundo, CA 2002 – 2008
Work independently with both internal and external customers and with technical support, as a
technical authority, consultant, primary investigator and project leader. Interface between customers’
and Aerospace’s technical and management staff. Mentor less experienced MTS and serve as a role
model. Present technical findings to senior management and customers.
- Conduct specialized technical studies and report findings
- Coordinate specific technical assignments
- Provide technical advice to management, customers and associated contractors
- Initiate development of advanced analytical techniques, concepts and design criteria for
subsystems
- Lead project teams within the department
- Bring in tasks and projects beyond personal activities from internal and external sources
- Instructor of two-phase heat and mass transport phenomena
Senior Member Technical Staff, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
Member of the Technical Staff, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
Project Engineer, Vilter Manufaturing Corp, Milwakee WI
Project Engineer, Litton Life Support Division, Davenport IA
Engineer, APV Crepaco, Lake Mills, WI
ADDITIONAL HIGHLITED PROGRAM SUPPORT

3. Reconnaissance Systems, Special Thermal Project Lead 2008 – 2009
• Evaluate thermal analysis techniques and findings of in-house senior thermal analyst and contractors.
• Mentor senior thermal analyst on project management methodology and technical issue resolution
• Provide out briefs to program director
• Serve as trusted technical agent
Advanced Systems Architecture Technology, Engineering Thermal Support Manager 2004-2007
• Administer detailed support of bus, payload, solar array, thermal control subsystem (including
payload radiator subsystem, power, heater subsystem, temperature control and passive devices such
as constant conductance heat pipes and variable conductance heat pipes), integration and test.
• Reside as focal point for program office and contractor thermal inquires.
• Support the goals, intent and performance of the customer specifications and product requirements.
• Manage thermal support of programs
• Provide detailed technical reports
• Provide presentation material
• Mentored junior member of engineering staff in analytic techniques and thermal solution analysis
software
• Perform presentation to senor management and customers
Integrated Space Program, Engineering Thermal Support Manager 1999 – 2005
• Directed detailed support of bus, payload, solar array, thermal control subsystem (including payload
radiator subsystem, power, heater subsystem, temperature control and passive devices such as
constant conductance heat pipes and variable conductance heat pipes), integration and test.
• Reside as focal point for program office and contractor thermal inquires.
• Support the goals, intent and performance of the customer specifications and product requirements.
• Mentored junior engineers in battery and solar array thermal support
• Provide detailed technical reports
• Provide presentation material
• Perform presentation to sensor management and customers
National Polar Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, Infrared Imager Radiometer
Suite 2005
• Lead Thermal Investigator for independent corporate program review (Red Team Review)
• Out brief to Brigadier General Sue Mashiko and Northrop Grumman Space Systems President Alexis
Livanos.
• Assessed ability of sensor to perform mission from a practical and technical standpoint.
• Provide recommendations to the Executive Committee relevant to continuation of the program
• Organized and participated in review summits
IR&D, Micro-Channel Electronic Cooling, Program Lead 2000-2002
• Manage delivery of $120K internal IR&D program and 2 people.
• Organized funding expenditures and delivery schedule of products
• Idealized and completed experimental verification of prototype model
• Developed and presented findings to senior management
• Delivered finale product on time and within budget.
IR&D, Thermal Conductance Across Dynamic High Speed Bearing, Program Lead 2002 – 2005
• Manage delivery of $1 million internal IR&D program and 3 people.
• Gained additional funding through various project management sources
• Organized funding expenditures and delivery schedule of products
• Developed and presented findings to senior management
• Delivered finale products on time and within budget

4. Two Wide-angle Imaging Neutral-atom Spectrometers (TWINS) 2000 - 2003
• Interface between NASA customer and program
• Developed the flight model
• Mentored junior member of engineering staff in analytic techniques and thermal solution analysis
software
• Developed and presented findings to senior management
• Delivered finale products on time
Space Based Infra-Red system (SBIRs) 1999 - 2000
• Developed the flight model
• Mentored junior member of engineering staff in analytic techniques and thermal solution analysis
software
• Developed and presented findings to senior management
• Delivered finale products on time
MILSTAR, Thermal Engineering Support 1997 – 2002
• Launch support of satellite flights 3, 4, 5 and 6
• On orbit anomaly resolution
• Develop satellite thermal model
• Learn test requirements/specifications for thermal vacuum environmental testing
• Support spacecraft thermal vacuum testing.
ADDITONAL PERFORMANCE
PATENTS GRANTED
U.S. Patent No. 6070656, Microelectronic Substrate Active Thermal Cooling Wick, June 6, 2000
U.S. Patent No. 6983792, Triangular Saw-Tooth Configuration Micro-Channel Cooling, January 10,
2006
U.S. Patent No. 7523780, High Density Electronic Cooling Triangular Shaped Microchannel Device,
April 28, 2009
CONFERANCE ORGANIZATION
Technical Chair to American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2004 to 2007
Organizing member of the Spacecraft Thermal Control Technology Workshop, 98 to 2008
Technical Chair to Space Technology and Applications International Forum-2001 (STAIF-2001),
February 2001
PROFESSIONAL LICENSES/AFFILIATIONS
Professional Engineer's License, 1993, Wisconsin, #30200-006
PUBLICATIONS
Dickey, J. T. and Peterson, G. P., "Comprehensive Permeability and Friction Factor Relationship for
Porous Materials", Journal of Fluids Engineering, under review.
Y. R. Takeuchi, J. T. Dickey, M. A. Eby, S. E. Davis, “Thermal Conductance of Ball Bearings in Vacuum;
A Review,” Journal of ASTM International, Published by the American Institute of Physics, Vol. 6, n1, p.
1-12, 2009.

5. S. M. Demksy, Y. R. Takeuchi, J. T. Dickey, “Thermal Conductance Measurement Techniques for High-
Speed Bearings in Vacuum,” Proceedings of 2005 ASME Heat Transfer Conference, San Fransisco, CA,
July 19th 2005, 8p.
Y. R. Takeuchi, J. T. Dickey, S. M. Demsky, M. A. Eby, “Heat Transfer Across Ball Bearings in Vacuum,”
Proceedings of 2005 ASME Heat Transfer Conference, San Fransisco, CA, July 19th 2005, 9p.
Takeuchi, Y. R., Dickey, J. T., Demsky, S. M., Lue, K. K., Kirsch, J. J., Frantz, P. P., 2004, “A
Methodology in Measuring Thermal Properties of Bearings in Motion”, Proceedings of the 15th Annual
Thermal and Fluids Analysis Workshop, Pasadena, CA, 25p.
Dickey, J. T. and Lam. T. T., "Heat Transfer in Triangular Microchannels", Advances in Electronic
Packaging 2003 (INTERPACK'03), IPACK2003-35133, July 6-11, 2003, Maui, HI.
Dickey, J. T. and Lam. T. T., "Heat Transfer in Micro-Channel for High Density Electronics Cooling",
Space Power Workshop, April 22-25, 2002, Redondo Beach, California.
Dickey, T. and Welch, J., ”Lessons Learned from an Antenna Flight Observation”, Spacecraft Thermal
Control Technology, Section 5, February 28-March 2, 2001, El Segundo, CA.
Dickey, J. T. and Lam. T. T., "Impact of Channel Geometry on Heat Transfer in Micro-Channel for High
Density Electronics Cooling", Advances in Electronic Packaging 2001 (INTERPACK'01), IPACK2001-
15535, July 8-13, 2001, Kauai, HI.
Dickey, T. and Prager, R., "Are Capillary Pumped Loops Ready to Fly Yet?", Spacecraft Thermal Control
Technology, Section 3, February 28-March 2, 2001, El Segundo, CA.
Dickey, J. T. and Peterson, G. P., "Moody's Diagram Heat Transfer Friction Flow Losses in Porous
Materials", Advances in Electronic Packaging 1999 (INTERPACK'99), Volume 1, pp. 1011-1017, June
13-19, 1999, Maui, HI.
Dickey, T. and Prager, R., "The Basics of Heat Pipes, CPLs and Looped Heat Pipes", Spacecraft Thermal
Control Technology, Section 3.1.1, February 24-26, 1999, El Segundo, CA.
Dickey, J. T. and Peterson, G. P., "Investigation of Two-Phase Heat Transfer in Porous Media", Heat
Transfer Session 1997 ASME IMECE, Nov. 16-21, Dallas, TX.
Dickey, J. T. and Peterson, G. P., "High Heat Flux Absorption Utilizing Porous Materials with Two-Phase
Heat Transfer", ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology, Vol. 119, No. 3, Sept. 1997.
Dickey, J. T. and Peterson, G. P., "High Heat Flux Absorption Utilizing Porous Materials with Two-Phase
Heat Transfer", ASME Energy Week Conference and Exhibitions, January 30-February 1, 1996, Houston,
TX.
Dickey, J. T. and Peterson, G. P., "Experimental and Analytical Investigation of a Capillary Pumped
Loop", Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 8, No. 3, July-Sept. 1994.
Dickey, J. T. and Peterson, G. P., "An Experimental and Analytical Investigation of the Operational
Characteristics of a Capillary Pumped Loop", AIAA Paper 93-2746,1993.

6. S. M. Demksy, Y. R. Takeuchi, J. T. Dickey, “Thermal Conductance Measurement Techniques for High-
Speed Bearings in Vacuum,” Proceedings of 2005 ASME Heat Transfer Conference, San Fransisco, CA,
July 19th 2005, 8p.
Y. R. Takeuchi, J. T. Dickey, S. M. Demsky, M. A. Eby, “Heat Transfer Across Ball Bearings in Vacuum,”
Proceedings of 2005 ASME Heat Transfer Conference, San Fransisco, CA, July 19th 2005, 9p.
Takeuchi, Y. R., Dickey, J. T., Demsky, S. M., Lue, K. K., Kirsch, J. J., Frantz, P. P., 2004, “A
Methodology in Measuring Thermal Properties of Bearings in Motion”, Proceedings of the 15th Annual
Thermal and Fluids Analysis Workshop, Pasadena, CA, 25p.
Dickey, J. T. and Lam. T. T., "Heat Transfer in Triangular Microchannels", Advances in Electronic
Packaging 2003 (INTERPACK'03), IPACK2003-35133, July 6-11, 2003, Maui, HI.
Dickey, J. T. and Lam. T. T., "Heat Transfer in Micro-Channel for High Density Electronics Cooling",
Space Power Workshop, April 22-25, 2002, Redondo Beach, California.
Dickey, T. and Welch, J., ”Lessons Learned from an Antenna Flight Observation”, Spacecraft Thermal
Control Technology, Section 5, February 28-March 2, 2001, El Segundo, CA.
Dickey, J. T. and Lam. T. T., "Impact of Channel Geometry on Heat Transfer in Micro-Channel for High
Density Electronics Cooling", Advances in Electronic Packaging 2001 (INTERPACK'01), IPACK2001-
15535, July 8-13, 2001, Kauai, HI.
Dickey, T. and Prager, R., "Are Capillary Pumped Loops Ready to Fly Yet?", Spacecraft Thermal Control
Technology, Section 3, February 28-March 2, 2001, El Segundo, CA.
Dickey, J. T. and Peterson, G. P., "Moody's Diagram Heat Transfer Friction Flow Losses in Porous
Materials", Advances in Electronic Packaging 1999 (INTERPACK'99), Volume 1, pp. 1011-1017, June
13-19, 1999, Maui, HI.
Dickey, T. and Prager, R., "The Basics of Heat Pipes, CPLs and Looped Heat Pipes", Spacecraft Thermal
Control Technology, Section 3.1.1, February 24-26, 1999, El Segundo, CA.
Dickey, J. T. and Peterson, G. P., "Investigation of Two-Phase Heat Transfer in Porous Media", Heat
Transfer Session 1997 ASME IMECE, Nov. 16-21, Dallas, TX.
Dickey, J. T. and Peterson, G. P., "High Heat Flux Absorption Utilizing Porous Materials with Two-Phase
Heat Transfer", ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology, Vol. 119, No. 3, Sept. 1997.
Dickey, J. T. and Peterson, G. P., "High Heat Flux Absorption Utilizing Porous Materials with Two-Phase
Heat Transfer", ASME Energy Week Conference and Exhibitions, January 30-February 1, 1996, Houston,
TX.
Dickey, J. T. and Peterson, G. P., "Experimental and Analytical Investigation of a Capillary Pumped
Loop", Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 8, No. 3, July-Sept. 1994.
Dickey, J. T. and Peterson, G. P., "An Experimental and Analytical Investigation of the Operational
Characteristics of a Capillary Pumped Loop", AIAA Paper 93-2746,1993.