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Product Design and Manufacturing, Materials, Fastening and Joining, Consumer Product and Safety
Expert was responsible, as a project engineer, for the origination of four product lines that have achieved No.1 with Consumer Reports, plus a significant contributor to others. Clients have ranged from start-ups to Kirby, Stratasys, Black & Decker, Toro, Andersen…
Failure Analysis of Materials
MATERIAL FAILURE ANALYSIS; ADHESIVE FAILURE; COMPOSITE FAILURE; METAL FAILURE. Expert's (pronounced Wall-teen) principal occupation has been in the analysis of failures of machine components, including orthopedic (surgical) implants. Materials analyzed include metals and alloys of all types, polymers, elastomers, composites,…
Agricultural and Food Engineering
Expert's primary areas of specialization are agricultral systems analysis, agricultural production, agricultural safety, food and agricultural processing, greenhouse, and tissue culture. Expert has broad knowledge about agriculture, agricultural production, and agricultural systems. This knowledge comes from being raised on a…
Air Quality-Toxics, Ambient, IAQ
Since 1969, Expert has involved most of his career with air quality consulting of some kind. He has executed or managed air monitoring studies of up to two million dollars in scope. These have included studies of criteria pollutants, dioxin,…
Metallurgical Engineering, Materials Processing, Materials Failure Analysis
Expert has gained extensive experience in the uses of ferrous metals and alloys (carbon and alloy steel, high strength steel, structural steel, heat resistant steel), non-ferrous metals and alloys, superalloys, stainless steels (austenitic, ferritic, martensitic, and precipitation hardening grades), tool…
CAD/CAM
Throughout his professional career Expert has both been a member and an active contributor to several professional associations, beginning in 1962 with a student membership in the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). He also became a member of the Computer…
Refractories and Ceramics
Expert has had extensive experience in industry as well as academia in the area of advanced ceramics. He was a professor of Ceramic Engineering for 12 years, and has been a Summer Researcher at three national labs. He has been…
Materials (grain, fertilizer, rock, coal, wood chips, etc.) Handling, Storage and Processing. Facilities, Bins, Silos, Mills and Related Equipment and Processes
Expert has expertise in bulk materials handling, storage, and processing systems particularly in regard to the agricultural industry. He specializes in the structure and systems design of pre-engineered buildings, bins, silos, and bunkers. He has experience in the specification, design,…
Business Mentor and Patent Management Specializing Electronic Assembly (SMT, FPT, Heterogeneous) and Semiconductor Packaging
Expert is internationally renowned in the field of fine-pitch, chip scale, wafer level, and general surface mount electronic design and assembly. He is credited with founding the first U.S. based surface mount technology (SMT) contract design and assembly foundry and…
Physical Layer Network Design
FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION. Expert has been involved in fiber optic communications since the earliest days of its commercial application. Starting with his employment with Siecor Corporation, a major manufacturer of fiber optic cable and components, he was involved with…