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Materials and Manufacturing Management
During his career as a practitioner and as a consultant, Expert has used ABC analysis to get the most significant result for a given effort. He has applied it to inventory management situations as well as to other tasks requiring…
Powders and Tablet Manufacturing
Expert has developed tableting systems and products in the areas of pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, high-protein snack products, chlorine tablets, chlorine removal tablets, over the counter antacids, and vitamins. He has developed sustain release sugar bead systems and also via the use…
Design for Manufacturing
PRODUCT DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURE AND ASSEMBLY. A significant portion of Expert's (prefers Dean) time during the past 15 years has been devoted to performing sponsored research in the areas of design for assembly, design for injection molding, design for stamping,…
Java, LAN-WAN Interconnect, Computer Networks
Employing his extensive network experience, Expert has taken advantage of Java to design and implement network applications. He teaches a university course on computer networks where he uses Java to provide examples and lab experiments. He has designed and implemented…
Powdered Metals & P/M Products
Expert has founded and operated businesses that produce powdered metal parts. He is the co-founder and President of his organization. The development of metals and alloys has been the focus of his career. He understands thoroughly the manufacturing process that…
Fatigue and Experimental Mechanics
Expert has spent the bulk of his career in developing improved methods for predicting the fatigue life of mechanical parts. He has helped dozens of companies in designing and evaluating products for adequate fatigue performance, covering the spectrum from construction…
Fuzzy, Neural and AI Systems
Expert's book, "Pattern Recognition Using Neural Networks, published by Oxford University Press in 1997, is considered an excellent reference in this area. Expert also has some papers in the research literature and has developed a powerful algorithm (the radial basis…
Project Management
Expert is the leading recognized expert on project management software. He has been responsible, either as manager or consultant, for the selection of project management software products for over four dozen organizations. He has contributed to the design and development…
Blood Wetted Devices and Biomaterials
BLOOD-WETTED BIOMATERIAL; CARDIOVASCULAR PROSTHESES; ARTIFICIAL INTERNAL ORGANS. Expert has been involved in the design, development, and evaluation of extracorporeal and implantable artificial internal organs for many years, first with the artificial kidney (including hemodialyzers and those based upon selective absorption)…
Food Microbiology, Toxicology, Preservation, and Spoilage; Yeasts; Clostridia; Botulinum Toxin
Expert's primary area of research is the study of botulinum toxin in the gram-positive pathogen Clostridium botulinum. Much of his work has been devoted to methods for the prevention of toxin formation in foods. He has also contributed to the…