North Carolina ATV expert witnesses analyze ATV operation, maintenance, and safety practices across rural trails and coastal recreation areas. They often come from mechanical engineering, accident reconstruction, off-road vehicle design, and emergency medicine backgrounds, with experience around the Outer Banks and Uwharrie terrain. They evaluate rollover dynamics, helmet use, vehicle defects, and rider training.
Automotive Vehicle Dynamics & Control Expert Witness
Automotive Vehicle Dynamics & Control Expert Witness
This expert is a nationally renown expert in automotive engineering and currently is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at a top ten automotive design and engineering school, where he also holds the position of Director of Center for Vehicle Systems and Safety and the Railway Technologies Laboratory. This expert is the founding director of the Virginia Institute for Performance Engineering and Research and the Advanced Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory. He has authored more than 200 technical publications, and has made more than one hundred technical presentations in topics related to advanced technologies for ground vehicles. He holds seven U.S. and international patents, and has edited three technical volumes. He is currently Associate Editor of AIAA Journal and the journal of Shock Vibration, and has served as Associate Editor for ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics. This expert is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a member of the Society for Automotive Engineers. He earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at State University of New York at Buffalo.
Director of Center for Vehicle Systems and Safety and Director of Railway Technologies Laboratory, Top Ranking Automotive University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), State University of New York at Buffalo
Virginia