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Optical Coating Design, Optical Coating Production, and Optical System Development
Expert has spent decades designing, developing, and producing optical thin films. He is noted for his understanding of design and producibility of optical coatings. He has worked with most optical vacuum physical vapor deposition (PVD) processes and a few chemical…
Management, New Product Development, and Plant Relocation and Startup
As part of top management's efforts to maximize revenue, growth and profitability, Expert has applied over 35 years of business, engineering and manufacturing expertise to provide cost effective solutions across a wide-range of industries. Expert maintains that it all starts…
Mechanical Properties of Metals
Expert has studied aluminum alloys from the 2xxx, 5xxx, 6xxx and 7xxx series and studied their grain size, tensile properties, heat treatments, corrosion resistance, and fatigue behavior (both room temperature stress - life (S-N) and crack growth behavior). His work…
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…
Polymer Fiber Based Materials; Patent Litigation
Expert is a Materials Science and Engineering professor with a primary focus in polymeric materials. The physics of fibers incorporates all aspects from fiber production through fiber-based materials utilization. For efficient production, the physics and chemistry of the starting material,…
Chemical Process Engineering
Expert has over 40 years of experience as a process engineer and project manager on new facilities for food, flavors, fragrances, fine chemicals, resins, and tall oils. He has taken the lead in driving R&D and manufacturing groups toward efficiency…
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…
Sensors and Measurements
Expert is a physicist who has both general and expert knowledge of flow sensing technologies and metering techniques, primarily in gases obtained for industrial uses and healthcare industries ranging from practical engineering applications to detailed design and new concept generation.…
Software Engineering, Testing, Integration, SQA, Real Time Systems, etc.
Expert is the principal author of DOD-STD-2167, Defense System Software Development, and served on the executive committees for many other software management standards (DOD-STD-2167A; DOD-STD-2168; MIL-STD-498; EIA/IEEE J-STD-016; IEEE/EIA 12207.0, 12207.1, 12207.2; ISO/IEC 15288, and others.) He has consulted with…