DR. YOGESH MEHROTRA
Vice President

Dr. Mehrotra served on two of FAA's ATSRAC Working Groups. He is a member of the SAE committees on wire and cable. He has chaired various meeting sessions and presented invited talks at various SAE, Aging Aircraft, AWIGG, NAVWAG, ATA and other conferences. The thermal barrier technology developed for NASA - MSFC under his leadership was showcased by NASA HQ to industry leaders and independent investors.

Prior to co-founding MTC, Dr. Mehrotra was a Senior Staff Engineer and Assistant to the Vice President of Research at the Perkin-Elmer Corporation (1981-87). As the Program Manager and Principal Investigator, Dr. Mehrotra led the industry-university research team for the development of germanium-cordierites and calcium/strontium-zirconium-phosphates, new and unique ceramic materials with near-zero thermal expansion characteristics. He worked extensively with the Air Force, DARPA and SDIO toward the development of these new materials. A research paper that Dr. Mehrotra authored was honored with the best technical paper award of 1986 by Perkin-Elmer.