Professor Arumugam received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from the PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India, in 1995. He received his Master's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Arkansas (UofA) at Fayetteville, in 2001 and his Ph.D. in Microelectronics and Photonics from UofA in 2005. He performed postdoctoral training at the University Affiliated Research Center at NASA Ames Research Center. Prior to joining Louisiana Tech, he was a Research Scientist at Advanced Diamond Technologies (a spin-off from Argonne National Laboratory), Eloret Corporation and SFC Fluidics. He received the Outstanding Mentor award for contributions to the development of STEM workforce from Higher Education Internship Program, NASA Ames.