Manufacturing Engineer Expert Witnesses in Indiana

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 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 qualified expert has years of experience in dynamics and control of automotive and manufacturing systems. He received his MS degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University and his PhD degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He is a fellow of 4 renowned associations: the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the International Federation of Automatic Control, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the American Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He is also the past president of the American Automatic Control Council. His impressive work as an engineer has earned him multiple honors, including the Society of Manufacturing Engineers's "Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer" award and the International Symposium on Flexible Automation's "Hideo Hanafusa Outstanding Investigator" award. He has published 190+ refereed journal articles and is the founding editor of ASME Dynamic Systems and Control magazine. He is the former founding director of the Ground Robotics Reliability Center, the Program in Manufacturing and the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Machining Systems at the University of Michigan. He is also the former chair of the department of mechanical engineering and the former deputy director of the NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Dimensional Measurement and Control in Manufacturing at the same institution. Currently, he is a distinguished professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at a major university.

This expert is a Professional Engineer and possesses over 30 years of engineering experience. He specializes in Failure Analysis, Metallurgical Testing, Fatigue Testing, Welding and Brazing Qualification. Prior to founding his current professional engineering consulting firm, he was the successful owner of a mechanical testing laboratory in Cincinnati, OH. This firm was a mechanical & metallurgical testing laboratory, handling clients from the Aerospace, Medical, Materials Handling, Welding and Defense industries. He is a member of ASTM, is on the F04.25 subcommittee on medical devices and recently co-sponsored ASTM F2077 revision.

This highly qualified expert earned his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Marquette University. From 1977 until 2010, he held increasingly senior roles within Baxter Healthcare Corporation, most recently serving as the Technical Director of Applied Science & Technology. He was an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University and spent four years at Exponent before becoming an independent consultant. The expert is a registered Professional Engineer in Illinois and has received 17 U.S. patents.

This engineering expert has over 30 years of experience in the field. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering and his Master of Engineering Science in Ireland before coming to the United States while working for Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems, where he designed electronic hardware and system software for air braked truck / trailer ABS and traction control systems. He then worked on ABS and traction control for passenger cars and subsequently started the Electronics Division at Wabash National which he led from 1998 to 2003. From 2004 until 2007, the expert worked for Dana Commercial Vehicle Systems, where he spent a year leading the development of automatic tire inflation products for commercial and military applications. Before starting his own consultancy he led the development of Traction Control, ABS and related technology for Caterpillar Inc. from 2007 to 2015. This included positioning Caterpillar as the industry leader in differential clutch based drive torque distribution and traction control for off highway vehicles. He has been granted 23 patents and is a Member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

This expert has been in the crane industry since 1980. His career began in overhead crane sales, before transitioning to crane manufacturing management. Prior to his current role, he was the CEO of the Professional Crane Division at a crane manufacturer where he oversaw crane design and engineering through final production and sale. He is currently the President of a consultancy specializing in crane production and manufacturing, as well as crane operation safety.

This expert runs a full-service, comprehensive safety and engineering facility. As a leader in the field of mechanical engineering and safety, his goal is to increase awareness of personal safety issues, while maintaining exacting standards and best practices of the science of personal safety and industrial safety. He is a member of numerous prestigious societies in the field, including the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering and the Society of Automotive Engineers. Currently, this expert is the principal of a design engineering and safety analysis firm.

This highly qualified expert received his BS and MS in mechanical engineering from Marquette University then went on to earn his DO from Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his residency in osteopathic family medicine at Firelands Regional Medical Center. This expert is board certified in family medicine and osteopathic manipulative treatment by the American Board of Family Physicians and is licensed in the state of Ohio. He is a member of the American Osteopathic Association, American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, and the American Academy of Family Physicians. Previously, he was a contract physician at Ohio Veterans Home and a staff physician at Providence Care Center. Currently, he serves as a clinical assistant professor of family medicine at an Ohio osteopathic college and as a program director of the transitional year residency program at a non-for-profit Ohio hospital.

This expert is an experienced manufacturing consultant with a focus on CNC programming. He earned his BS in industrial technology from San Jose State University with added qualifications in computer electronics from San Jose State University. He previously served as a senior CAD/CAM engineer at Sofamor Danek, which has since been acquired by Medtronic, and as a senior consultant for manufacturing at PTC, a major computer software firm. Currently, this expert is an independent manufacturing consultant.

This expert earned his BBA from Marshall University in West Virginia before beginning his career as a buyer at Toyota Motor Manufacturing. Thereafter, he moved to Mercedes-Benz working as an assistant manager of purchasing. He then held leadership positions in the purchasing departments of Hyundai Motor America, Eisenmann Corporation, Akebono Brake Corporation, and Robert Bosch GmbH. A certified purchasing manager (CPM), he currently serves as the director of procurement for a German industrial services firm while operating an independent automotive purchasing and procurement consultancy.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in the field of technology manufacturing. He received his BS in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University before earning his MBA from the University of Michigan. He is a certified professional engineer and a member of several organizations, including the National Society of Professional Engineers, the Society of Automotive Engineers, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is active in his field as an author of numerous publications and as an invited lecturer at multiple conferences throughout his career. He has formerly served as the principal engineer at OEM Carburetors, the director of CIM consulting at KPMG Peat Marwick, and the vice president and director of manufacturing and industrial engineering for Smith, Hinchman, & Grylls Associates. Currently, this expert is the principal of an engineering consulting group in Michigan.

This highly qualified hazardous materials transportation expert earned his BS in Industrial Engineering, his MS in Engineering Management, and his PhD from Kennedy Western University. This expert has been involved in the development and implementation of hazardous materials safety regulations for more than 30 years and has been responsible for a broad range of domestic and international hazardous materials safety efforts. He has served as the chairman of the UN Sub-Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, and as the chairman and vice chairman of the ICAO Dangerous Goods Panel. This expert spent 18 years in the Department of Transportation/Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration's Office of Hazardous Materials Safety, and currently serves as the VP of Government Affairs/Consultant for a private hazardous materials shipping solutions firm.

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.