NHTSA Expert Witnesses in Indiana

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 has over 40 years of experience in municipal traffic engineering, transportation planning, highway design, traffic system operations, right-of-way acquisition, and Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is a registered professional engineer in Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Florida and California. He has been certified as a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer by the Transportation Professional Certification Board, Washington, D.C. He previously spent 14 years as the Transportation Director for the City of Troy, Michigan and 5 years as a Highway Engineer for the Federal Highway Administration. He currently chairs the Metro Detroit Incident Management Coordinating Committee. He is a Past-President of the Intelligent Transportation Society of Michigan and has been recognized as a traffic engineering expert in litigation involving traffic crashes.

This expert received his AS in Science from Lincoln Trail College and is an Accredited Traffic Accident Reconstructionist by the Accreditation Commission for Traffic Accident Reconstructionists. He has certifications in Bosch EDR, Level I Event Data Recorder Use in Traffic Crash Reconstruction, and is a Crash Reconstruction Specialist. He is an active member in the Illinois Association of Technical Accident Investigators and the Illinois Traffic Safety Leaders. Currently, he is a police officer and the Chief of Police at a police department in Illinois, as well as an owner and lead crash reconstruction investigator at a large accident reconstruction firm in Illinois.

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 expert has over 20 years of experience in automotive electronics engineering. He holds a BS in physics from Michigan State University, a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Texas, a BS in computer science from Wayne State University, and a MBA in international economics from Oakland University. He began his career as an avionics electrical engineer with the US Air Force, performing field engineering testing, reliability, and failure analysis for various aviation electronic modules. He went on to graduate from the Ford Technical Education Program, and worked as an internal consultant and technical specialist to over 200 other engineers. In additional to Ford Motor Company, this expert has also served as an engineer for DaimlerChrysler Corporation, Visteon Corporation, GERTRAG Transmission Corporation and Continental Automotive. Over the course of his career, he has designed shift-by-wire electronic driver controls, power-train control modules, electronic transmission control units, body electronic control units, and hybrid-electric vehicle electronics. Currently, this expert serves as the principal engineer at an automotive electronics engineering firm in Michigan.