Alfred Piggott is Founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at Applied Thermoelectric Solutions LLC.Alfred has 30+ years of overall experience. Alfred's engineering career in thermoelectrics and thermal systems has focused on product design, development, validation testing, systems engineering, thermal and electrical modeling and research and development. With this experience he has taken projects from concept through mass production and service.Alfred has a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and completed a Thesis on transient electrical pulse thermoelectric cooling. During his graduate work he also obtained a Certificate in Advanced Energy Storage.During his undergraduate work, Alfred won the Mechanical Engineering department and overall School of Engineering Senior Design Competition with an innovative thermal energy conversion device.Prior to obtaining an engineering degree, Alfred worked as a certified automotive technician for 8 years. Alfred has published several papers on thermoelectrics and received the Editor’s Choice award from the Journal of Electronic Materials regarding transient thermoelectric generator modeling. Alfred currently holds 16+ patents. Alfred is actively presenting at thermoelectrics conferences around the world and recently selected as a judge for NASA Tech Briefs Create the future design contest 2019.
Listed skills include Product Development, Heat Transfer, Simulations, Innovation, and 46 others.