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Fact-Based Problem Solving: DoE, Taguchi, ISO 9002, Weibull, Manufacturing Cost Control, Design
Expert is concerned with controlling manufacturing costs and improving product quality through fact-based decisions, including design of experiments, statistical process control, and similar techniques. His A2Q Method(TM) was used to simultaneously develop a new heat exchanger and the production procedures…
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…
Pulp and Paper Processes
Expert has extensive knowledge and experience with processing and de-inking recycled papers. Expert has had over 30 years of experience in operating and designing systems for processing and de-inking various types of waste paper. He has developed several process innovations…
Electronic Displays
Expert has worked in this field for over 30 years. He has done research, development, and engineering on a variety of technologies, including display devices, display systems, the electronic circuitry needed to drive displays and interface them with computers and…
Fatigue, Spate Methods, NDE, Product Liability, Thermomechanics, etc.
LIFE PREDICTION METHODOLOGIES FOR COMPONENTS OF STRUCTURES, MACHINES, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES. Expert's work centers on life prediction methodologies for components of structures, machines, and electronic devices. The major parameters of interest are stress, strain, time, temperature, and damage. These quantities…
Metallurgical Electrochemistry
Expert's research, teaching, and consulting have been focused in the design and optimization of electrochemical processes for extraction and refining of metals, and generation of coatings. He holds patents on new cell design, a reference electrode for control, and methodology…
Electronic Product Development
Expert (pronounced road-re-an) has designed analog circuits that measure current or voltage signals from temperature, pressure, flow, and conductivity transducers. He has designed isolated, 4-20 mA current loop transmitters. The analog circuits provide inputs to or outputs from microprocessor-based controllers.…
Heat Pipes and Cryogenics
Expert has an international reputation in heat pipe analysis and design. He has done extensive modeling and testing to predict and verify heat pipe performance for both space and terrestrial applications. He has pioneered the performance modeling of gravity-assisted heat…
Electrical Ceramics, Ceramic Capacitors, Ceramic Processing, Ferroelectrics, Piezoelectrics,
Expert has 50 years of experience in ceramic processing and properties of electrical ceramics, including capacitors,multilayer ceramic capacitors, insulators, dielectrics, inductors, resistors, thermistors, sensors, transducers, varistors, superconductors, and thin-layer capacitors. He has 10 years of industrial experience and 36 years…
HVAC Control Systems and Equipment
Expert has devoted his professional career to the design, component selection, cost estimating, prototyping, testing, integration, interfacing, manufacturing, and trouble-shooting of control systems, primarily for HVAC equipment and systems. Expert's career path includes the selection of air-to-refrigerant and water-to-refrigerant heat…