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Mechanical Engineering
Expert specializes in the analysis of products and systems in the automotive, thermal design, consumer product, and industrial environments. His work includes investigations of technical issues related to vehicles, liquid and gas flows, consumer appliances, and consumer electronics. He has…
Reliability Engineering, Reliability Program Management, Accelerated Testing
Expert has conducted over 80 reliability program assessments in the high tech, aerospace, oil exploration, medical device industries. Expert has made high impact recommendations and guided design and manufacturing firms to make significant improvements in fielded product reliability, reducing warranty…
Data Storage Technology, Data Storage Industry, Hard Disk Drives, Optical Drives, Solid State Drives
Expert has extensive experience in the field of disk drives, including substantial contributions to a number of very innovative and successful products and processes. These have included some of the industry’s earliest magnetoresistive (“MR”) head drives, Maxtor’s first double-capacity drive,…
Hardware Reliability Testing; Vibration and Shock, Climatic Testing
Expert has actively worked with clients for many years to specify, set up, perform, and report on accelerated environmental testing. Sample products include electro-optical systems, cell phones, roller coaster audio systems, helmet mounted displays, automotive and medical equipment. Expert has…
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…
Electrical Connectors
Expert has applied his physics background to generate a fundamental understanding of temperature generation and material transport in electrical contact spots (a-spots) in bulk electrical interfaces. Over 25 years, his research showed that 1) Sintering effects occur in a-spots even…
Design of Experiments, Reliability, Quality, Accelerated Life Testing, Probability and Statistics
Expert (rhymes with "hats off") has designed state of the art reliability and accelerated life testing software that is used throughout IBM. This software is incorporated within IBM's AGSS system, an interactive statistical graphics system that has been marketed by…
Electronic Reliability & On-Chip ESD Protection
Expert currently works on predicting the electric breakdown of silicon dioxide gate dielectric. He is knowledgeable of the electric breakdown characteristics of silicon and air. Additionally, he has studied the effects of electric field on the reliability of semiconductor devices.…
Fatigue, Spate Methods, NDE, Product Liability, Thermomechanics, etc.
LIFE PREDICTION METHODOLOGIES FOR COMPONENTS OF STRUCTURES, MACHINES, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES. Expert's work centers on life prediction methodologies for components of structures, machines, and electronic devices. The major parameters of interest are stress, strain, time, temperature, and damage. These quantities…