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Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, Fire Safety Engineering
He is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Affiliate Professor of Fire Protection Engineering. He has more than a decade record of research with the Center for Fire Research (now BFRL) at the NIST. His work is in evaporative cooling…
Materials and Controls
As the former Vice President of Materials and Controls at Texas Instruments, Expert has diversified experience in electronics corrosion prevention, metallurgy, and electronic ceramics and thermostatic bimetal discs. He led the development of unique processes for titanium aluminide thin foil…
Ink Jet Printers, Optics
CREATIVITY PROCESS; INNOVATION PROCESS; DEVICE INVENTING; PROCESS INVENTING. Creativity and the associative thought process have always been Expert's forte. The ability to expand upon a thought and then reduce that expansion to the simplest fundamental answer has allowed him to…
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…
Plastics Fracture Mechanics, Plastics Service Performance, Plastics Wear, Plastics Friction
Expert has developed a criterion for the prevention of rapid crack propagation in plastic pipes. He developed a formula for calculating slow crack propagation as a function of the stress intensity factor. He developed a method of prediction of ductile-brittle…
Automotive Engineering Materials
METAL MATRIX COMPOSITE APPLICATION. Expert has expertise in the many aspects of incorporating metal matrix composites into mechanical devices. He has been involved in the design, fabrication, machining, joining, and evaluation process for automotive applications. In particular, Expert has extensive…
Integrated Business/Technology Planning, Strategic Planning, Small/Medium Business Analysis
Expert has a deep understanding of virtually all aspects of business development, including customer needs; operations efficiency and effectiveness. He has provided advice and counsel for numerous small businesses and has managed in-depth studies of telecommunications and information handling requirements…
Weld Structure, Tanks, Vessels
Expert (pronounced ma-kit-ka, ) has over 35 years experience in practical applications requiring consideration of materials, toughness, impact energy and resistance, tensile strength, yield strength, and ductility of metals. This includes experience with properties of welds and weldments, and ASME…
Cryogenics, Food Freezing, Superconducting Systems, Deep Refrigeration
Expert has expertise in the cryogenic field, particularly in cryogenic freezer and custom cryogenic apparatus design for application of cooling in processing lines. Expert has pioneered novel methods to control temperatures, flows, heat leaks, expansion and contraction of materials, and…