Daniel N. Donahoe
For his distinguished career specializing in mechanical and materials engineering for electronics spanning corporate, civilian, military and entrepreneurial experience with exceptional service to the Air Force, IEEE and the ISE department.
Owner and CEO, 1000 kilometers
- BS, General Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1977
- MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1979
With a forty-plus-year engineering career springing from a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign General Engineering (now Industrial and Enterprise Systems) degree, Dan Donahoe has been a licensed professional engineer in several states since February 1982, passed the ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer exam, completed an MBA at Santa Clara University in 1983 and completed a Ph.D. at the University of Maryland in 2005. He is currently owner and CEO of 1000 kilometers, a general engineering practice with specific focus defined by a radius of 1000 kilometers from Salt Lake City.
Dan’s career has spanned from spacecraft thermal control work at Lockheed to artillery fuzing at Motorola to worldwide tracking stations at Ford Aerospace. From there he spent time at Teledyne working on avionics, worked in reliability at Compaq Computer Corporation and a short stint at Iomega. After serving on the staff and the University of Maryland while completing his Ph.D., Dan worked for Exponent Failure Analysis and spent more than five years working as a civil servant for the Department of the Air Force.
His work in thermal analysis continues by participating in ASHRAE Technical Committee (TC) 9.9 Mission Critical Facilities, Data Centers, Technology Spaces and Electronic Equipment. He has been active in many other professional organizations including AIAA, ASME, ASHRAE and IEEE. Much of his career has been in integration of equipment into systems, a “General Engineer” in the truest sense.
Current as of February 2024