Adam Whelan

Adam Whelan is a Senior Principal Systems Engineer at Raytheon Technologies, a position held since April 2021, following a career at Raytheon from August 2007 to April 2021 where roles included Senior Mechanical Engineer II and Principal Mechanical Engineer. Whelan's expertise includes thermal analysis and testing for multiple missile product lines, focusing on various thermal phenomena such as compressible flow and thermodynamic gas expansion, as well as conducting finite element analysis of electronic packaging. Prior to this, Whelan served as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Georgia Institute of Technology, specializing in compact thermal modeling and micro/nano thermal transport analysis. Whelan's career began at GE as an Edison Engineer, where responsibilities included design and analysis of cooling systems and gas ranges. Whelan holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.