Thermoelectric Design LLC provides expert thermoelectric application engineering throughout a product's life cycle:
 | Concept | |
| Design | |
| Prototyping, testing, and trouble shooting | |
| Manufacturing, sourcing, and vendor selection | |
| Quality procedures and specification | |
| Intellectual property development |
Matt Cauchy - Principal Consultant, Thermoelectric Design LLC
2002 - Present
| Developed novel low cost thermoelectric cooling assembly. | |
| Cost reduced several high volume TE products. | |
| Provided trouble shooting for low performing consumer product. | |
| Provided testing service for large OEM. | |
| Evaluated Chinese assembly house and several Chinese TE module manufacturers. |
Engineering Manager - Tellurex Corporation
1989 -2002
| Responsible for designing, manufacturing, and QC of thermoelectric module product line. | |
| Engineered complete thermal solutions for a wide variety of TE products from consumer products to | |
| telecommunications to power generation. |
Development Engineer - IBM, Raleigh, NC
1982 - 1987
| Developed and designed electronic packaging and plastic enclosures |
Education
1997 - 1982 BSME University of Michigan
1987 - 1989 MSEE University of Michigan
Resources
| Small test and prototype lab, including mill, fabrication tools, and data acquisition equipment. | |
| SolidWorks 3D software | |
| CFdesign Computational Fluid Dynamics software | |
| Close relationships with mechanical design and plastics consultants. | |
| Working relationship with several Chinese sourcing agents based in US and China. | |
