Engineering Expert Witnesses

This expert has published extensively in magazines, in-house journals, and textbooks. He is a participating member of numerous societies. He has over 40 years personal experience in management, consulting and expert services in the fields of design, manufacturing, testing of hydraulic, pneumatic and electro-mechanical lifting and load bearing machines, equipment and devices: industry experience including automotive, construction, industrial, material handling, warehousing and transportation: forensic engineering including product liability, accident investigation, reconstruction and expert testimony: incidents involving industrial trucks, aerial work platforms, forklifts, telehandlers, tuggers, pallet jacks, automatic storage and retrieval systems, dock boards, dock levelers, trailer restraints, trailer jacks, racks, conveyors, overhead bridge cranes, trucks, shop cranes, scissors lifts, shop cranes, automatic doors and lift gates: heavy equipment involving telehandlers, powered industrial trucks, automatic storage and retrieval systems, gantry cranes, truck cranes, tower cranes, cranes with hydraulic booms, cranes with lattice booms, grapple and magnet equipped excavators, and side boom cranes: conformity issues involving environmental, health and safety, warnings, instructions, training conformity with recognized standards, codes, industry custom and practice and government regulations.

This expert is globally known for his expertise in telecommunications and wireless networks, a field he has worked in for the past 40 years. He has worked for military contractors, universities, Fortune 500 companies, and start-ups. Having earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Communications from Purdue University, his counsel is frequently sought by business ventures in the wireless electronics field.

This board certified forensic engineer earned his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering and PhD in Technical Science. He is also a fellow of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers and a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers. This expert has published an extensive body of literature in his field, and has given nationally invited lectures and presentations at such prestigious institutions as Johns Hopkins. He has qualified as an expert witness before several state and federal courts. Currently, this expert is the President and CEO at a major engineering research laboratory.

This expert has over 36 years of experience in petroleum, biofuel, and chemical engineering. A senior member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, he has delivered over 50 presentations and speeches across the globe at conferences such as the World Fuels Conference. As a Product Manager with Crown Iron Works Company, this expert led their biodiesel initiative to position the company as a top firm in the biodiesel process technology market. At Delta-T Corporation, he led the Biodiesel Team by assisting financial institutions with due diligence on biodiesel investments and assisted engineers for biodiesel plant designs. Currently, this expert operates his own consulting firm, where he provides expert engineering and financial analyses for the petroleum refining and chemical industries.

This supremely qualified Expert of Mechanical Engineering and biomechanics obtained his MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University. He is a Certified Manufacturing Engineer and a Licensed Professional Engineer. He is a Fellow and member of the American Society of Mechanical and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He has 175+ Publications on Mechanical Engineering and is Currently the Professor of Mechanical Engineering at a New York College and is the Founder and Director of an Engineering Design Firm with over thirty years of academia, industrial and expert witness experience.

This expert has over 35 years of experience as a professional engineer. He is a registered as a Professional Mechanical Engineer (P.E.) in Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, New York, Nevada, Oregon, Texas and Utah. He is an internationally recognized authority on assessing, evaluating, conceptualizing and remediating complex project design, construction and operational issues related to HVAC systems, cleanrooms, piping systems, refrigeration systems, and building and fire code compliance. He has analyzed and designed hundreds of projects including commercial facilities, institutional laboratories and clean-room facilities for the semiconductor and other industries. He currently is the owner and principal of his own engineering consulting firm. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at a university in Arizona, and lectures on the analysis and design of environmental control systems (HVAC) for buildings.

This telecommunications professional offers expertise in mobile systems, system protocol types, project management, telecommunication standards, and regulation. He has experience in a number of telecommunications positions, including his role as senior manager of global technology standards at Sprint. He is an electrical engineer with 30 years designing and developing the cell phone system worldwide. He holds 29 patents and four trade secrets with Sprint and is widely considered to be an industry leader in the mobile technology and communications space. Qualified in Federal and State Courts for Criminal, Civil and Patent Infringement matters. Cases include Trucking Accidents (CMV), TCPA cases, Wiretap (CALEA), 911 wrongful death matters. A proven authority, his career has spanned more than 25 years in the field of cellular communication and includes 29 patents in cellular technology innovations. He is an extraordinary asset to attorneys seeking case assistance in the fields of wireless, cellular, PCS and telephony. He is certified as a testifying expert in Federal and State courts.

This audio device expert began his career as a professional musician, studying at the Boston Conservatory of Music. He thereafter earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University and later pursued a doctorate in the field at Lehigh University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer and member of the IEEE, National Academy of Forensic Engineers (NAFE) and Audio Engineering Society (AES). As the author of industry patents and an active member of the American Bar Association Section Intellectual Property Law, he has a significant interest in intellectual property disputes.

This highly qualified software professional is an expert in software and computing technology with 20+ years of experience as an inventor, engineer, and programmer. He designed and built the web's first online bookmark site, and belongs to the IEEE Computer Society and the Application Developers Alliance. This expert has worked as a programmer, software development manager, technical analyst, CTO, software engineer, and mentor in a wide variety of industries including enterprise software, digital entertainment, and web-enabled government. He also launched a number of Internet startups using cutting-edge technologies like cloud-based server scaling, machine learning (AI), and personalized social ad targeting. His first startup, created significant prior art used in multiple patent cases. He currently serves as a consulting and testifying expert where he provides software analysis and computer forensics.

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.

This expert brings 40+ years of electrical engineering experience to a continuing career in failure analysis and electrical fire investigations. In addition to his professional work for several industrial firms, he has taught these subjects at the Illinois Fire Academy., Wisconsin IAAI.

This highly qualified engineer has 25+ years of industry experience. He is a member of several professional societies including the American Association of Snowboard Instructors, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, American Water Ski Association, and American National Standards Institute. This expert teaching experience and serves as a reviewer for several peer reviewed publications including the American Society for Testing and Materials and American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Currently, this expert is the President of an engineering consultancy. He earned his BSME and MSME at Worcestor Polytechnic Institute.

This highly qualified expert is an electrical engineer by training with forensic experience in electronic communications and control systems. He has 40 years of industry experience and has authored 20+ peer-reviewed technical publications. This expert has extensive expert witness experience in cases involving mobile telephone systems, electronic surveillance systems, industrial machinery, and automotive electronics. Currently, he operates a forensic engineering consultancy specializing in electrical devices and electronic systems. His geographic area is the eastern USA.

This highly qualified expert has 25+ years of experience in Engineering and has specifically focused on investigations and forensics for the last 15+ years. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio State University, and he has published over 35 papers and reviews and is a patent owner of 2 products. He belongs to the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers, the National Safety Council, and the National Council of Examiners for Engineering & Surveying to name a few. While managing the Mechanical Department at Matrix Technologies, this expert prepared detailed engineering packages and programs for refrigerators and HVAC installations. He also served as the Chief Engineer at Thermo Mechanical Systems Co, where he assisted in the design of refrigeration and heating systems.

This highly experienced biomedical engineer has directed comprehensive hospital-based biomedical engineering department at the largest medical center in the country, taught at both medical and technical post-secondary institutions, including the Baylor College of Medicine, West Virginia University, and a prominent Mexican university. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in electrical engineering from West Virginia University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer and certified as a Clinical Engineer. He is member of technical standards writing bodies, and is widely published in his field and his expertise is frequently sought by hospitals, manufacturers, and litigators. He received numerous professional awards including the FDA Commissioner, Special Citation for protecting the public safety.

This expert earned a BS in Electrical Engineering Technology from Purdue University and an MBA from Butler University. He specializes in industrial products, technical sales, industrial automation, pneumatics, embedded controls, firmware, embedded systems design, real time operating systems, and industrial networks. He has worked as an electrical/design engineer throughout his career, and is currently the Founder and Technical Lead of an industrial control manufacturer.

This expert's major practice area involves the scientific investigation of accidents resulting in injury. He utilizes the information provided by injuries and mechanical failure of objects to reconstruct the events of an accident and answer questions related to liability. He holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Drexel University. This expert is a licensed professional engineer and has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and abstracts. He has presented scientific findings at both medical and engineering conferences. Currently, this expert is the principal engineer of a consulting firm focusing on the forensic investigation of accidents.

This expert joined the Departments of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering at a major TX University in June 2013 as an Assistant Professor. Prior to joining that university, he was a Research Scientist at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University. This expert investigates the control mechanisms of human locomotion for the development of high-performance wearable control systems (e.g., robotic prostheses and orthoses) to enable mobility in persons with disabilities. He is a recipient of the NIH Director's New Innovator Award and the Career Award at the Scientific Interface from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. His work has been recognized with the Best Student Paper Award of the American Control Conference and the IEEE Conference on Decision & Control, the Best Technical Paper Award of the 2011 CLAWAR Conference, and the O. Hugo Schuck Award from multiple control conferences and councils, respectively. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society and the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society.

This expert has thirty plus years of environmental and water resource engineering experience throughout the Americas. Exceptional skills in several water resource and environmental specialties including surface-water and groundwater hydrology, hydrogeologic characterization, surface-water/groundwater interaction, contaminant fate and transport in the subsurface and aquatic environment (special emphasis on PCBs, petroleum compounds, industrial chemicals, and mining-related contamination), limnology, water quality, aquatic ecology, aquatic organism passage. Served as an expert witness for varied cases since 1989. Proficiently team with legal professionals to achieve goals.

This expert has more than 30 years experience investigating water heater, valving, piping, and injuries related to steam and water pressure. He earned his bachelors and masters degrees in Physics from Georgia Tech and is highly regarded in his field. He is currently the Principal of a mechanical engineering firm that investigates industrial steam accidents, provides consulting to operators of high pressure steam systems experiencing water hammer, and provides seminars to operators and engineers on understanding water hammer in steam systems.