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Heat Transfer, Heat Pipes, Cooling Systems, Power Plant Equipment Design, New Product Development
Expert’s interests and experience extend over a wide range of air-cooled heat exchangers. Prompted mainly by the present day environmental concerns and scarce water resources, as well as by the more attractive maintenance-free operation of air-cooled units compared to water-cooled…
Plastic and Coating Stabilization; Controlled Degradation Analysis and Design; Analytical Services
Expert's knowledge in the area of amorphous and crystalline polymers is based on 36 years in the field, having worked with all commercially available amorphous, crystalline, and semicrystalline resins. His knowledge includes physical properties and stabilization at many levels and…
Plastics; Plastic Failure Analysis
Leading expert on the failure of plastic piping including CPVC, PVC, and PEX. Globally renowned expert in styrene polymerization and polystyrene Have extensive experience conducting failure analysis of plastic and composite parts. Have served as an expert witness in about…
Air, Water and Solid Waste Pollution Control & Energy Recovery in US & Asia
Expert was responsible for the introduction of activated carbon fiber adsorption systems into the U.S. as a licensee of the Japanese firm that developed them. This involved technical liaison with the Japanese as well as sales/marketing to customers. He was…
Fatigue of Elastomers
Expert managed a tire components development group for a major synthetic rubber supplier for 15 years. During this time he personally established a state-of-the-art fatigue laboratory to assess the fatigue crack growth resistance of various elastomers, compounds, and blends of…
Vehicle Engineering, Design, Development and Testing, Manufacture Engineering, Automotive Industry
Expert spent over 33 years in engineering for General Motors, his last 17 years as the Engineering Director. The Engineering Director is responsible for the entire automobile, its design, manufacture, cost, reliability, and safe performance in the hands of the…
Lean Manufacturing, Constraint Analysis/Resolution, New Product Planning, Manufacturing Engineering
Expert Kopstein (formerly Even) works with management and plant teams in the evaluation and implementation of advanced technology integration, efficiency improvement, waste reduction and productivity. Compliance and implementation of quality systems including aspects of ISO 9000, strategic planning, cost containment,…
Robotics, Computer Vision, and Sensors for Transportation Applications
Expert has taught several courses in automated inspection. In addition, he has consulted for two major manufacturers of automated inspection equipment. In particular, he has expertise in selection of sensors, vision-based inspection, software algorithms for inspection, and sensor fusion. He…
Automotive Vehicle Dynamics (Handling), and Tire Mechanics (Tire Force and Moment Properties)
Expert has over 35 years of experience working in vehicle dynamics. He has worked on a wide variety of projects and with a broad selection of different vehicles. These range from determining tire properties for radio control cars to improving…
Plastics Recycling and Life Cycle Analysis
Expert has been involved with PET bottle resin since leading the Eastman Chemical commercialization team on the product (Eastman then the world's largest producer of PET bottle resins). He is well acquainted with all the commercial PET bottle formulations and…