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Mechanical Engineering Design and Prototype Development
Expert received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), with an emphasis in composite manufacture and analysis. His Ph.D. dissertation dealt with manufacturing analysis for axisymmetric composite structures. Part of the research included building a…
Electronics, World Bank Funded Projects Management, Curriculum Development, Education
Expert has been involved in the design of many microcontoller-based systems. The Alarm Annunciator was designed for a process instrumentation industry for annunciation of fault parameters. It was a modular design with each controller handling up to eight isolated inputs…
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…
Product Safety and Liability
Expert has been a consultant in over 500 product liability lawsuits. He has often been called on to use his skills as a mechanical engineer. The range of subjects include the numerous mechanical and electrical systems in automobiles and trucks,…
Aluminum/Materials Joining and Product Manufacturing
Expert has extensive knowledge and experience in most processes and methods for joining aluminum, having numerous technical publications, presentations, and patents in the area. He consults with clients on process and equipment selection as well as troubleshooting existing operations. Fusion…
Microcontroller-based Product Design
Most of the projects expert has been involved with have been real-time dependent. He has designed high-speed bit-slice-based data acquisition units for military aircraft radar, high-speed machinery controls, home automation, cordless telephones, fitness equipment, arcade games, and other consumer products.…
Machinability, Cutting Tools, Workpiece Material Development, and Surface Integrity
Expert's company is internationally recognized for its work in developing and distributing data for machining of a wide variety of materials. It's the premier source for machining data (specific operating conditions), process engineering, machinability testing, and machine tool and cutting…
Polymer Foam Process & Materials
Expert is an Adjunct Professor in the Packaging Science Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology where he teaches plastics processing and research methods. He has extensive experience with the extrusion and thermoforming of cellular plastics, especially polystyrene foam. He…
Plastic Molding Processes
Expert has extensive experience with plastic molding processes and with injection molding in particular. He is often called upon to help clients with issues such as injection molding machine selection, injection mold lubrication, and in-mold labeling. He has been responsible…
Control Systems, Modeling, and Simulation
Expert is an expert in development, simulation, analysis, and design of various control systems: classical, adaptive, optimal, digital, multivariable, and nonlinear. Expert has expertise in classical and modern control theory, process control, system optimization, mathematical modeling, computer simulation, and system…