Automotive Design Expert Witnesses
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Automotive design expert witness candidates typically have extensive experience and knowledge in automotive engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and/or vehicle manufacturing. An automotive engineer specializing in design may also have a background in art or industrial design. Cahn Litigation Services is frequently called upon by law firms to locate an expert witness that can support issues involving automotive design matters. When an expert is needed, Cahn Litigation Services will hone in on experts with precisely the rights skillset and experience for the job at hand.
Automotive design refers to the art and science of developing the aesthetics and ergonomics for motor vehicles such as an automobile, motorcycle, race car, autonomous vehicle, bus, ATV, or commercial vehicle. The design of the vehicle body, as well as the interior components and accessories utilize the expertise of a professional in automotive design.
An automotive design expert witness could provide expertise in intellectual property matters — a patent litigation in federal court or a trade secret dispute. It could be a patent infringement case in the District Court, or a patent case or proceeding in the International Trade Commission (ITC). An automotive design specialist could be called to assist in trade dress, trademark infringement, or counterfeiting matters. An automotive expert in design might provide testimony in matters such as a product liability case or accident investigation.
Litigation support by a automotive design expert witness could include an expert report, forensic engineering, expert opinion, accident reconstruction and expert witness testimony at a trial. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request a technical expert with prior expert witness experience. It is essential that an expert witness possess the ability to provide expert testimony in such a manner that a jury and judge can understand the factual evidence.
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Automotive Design Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Automotive Design experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Automotive Design landscape.
Expert Witness #223826
This expert has made a career of consulting and providing expert witness services to the automotive industry. This expert's focus is on automotive systems and components as well as the dynamics of gears and power trains. This expert received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and is a Professional Engineer. This expert has a training certificate in Mechanics of Heavy-Duty Trucks and Truck Combinations, among others. This expert is a frequent presenter at industry conferences and is well published in the automotive field.
Start Automotive Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #234032
This expert brings to the table many years of automotive industry and consulting experience in the design, development, testing, and analysis of domestic and foreign automotive products and components. This expert's experience gives a broad level of expertise, including the design, performance, testing, and manufacturing of vehicle body systems and components, energy absorbing frame elements, bumpers, roofs, closures (doors systems, hoods, trunk lids, folding tops), seats, trim and sealing systems. This expert has conducted and/or witnessed and analyzed the results from more than 200 full-scale vehicle crash tests in new product development, FMVSS and foreign certification, accident reconstruction validation, and research. This expert has also conducted numerous developmental and FMVSS certification tests on component-level items such as roofs, door beams and structures, door latches, door hinges, seat belt anchorages, and bumper systems.
This expert's experience with folding roof systems extends back many years when this expert was responsible for development and testing of a manual folding top system. This expert was responsible for the design and development of a luxury car manual folding top and a sports car manual folding top. This expert was contracted full-time as Director of Engineering to develop a power folding hardtop roof system. Sometime later, this expert was engaged as an expert in an IP matter involving the design of a folding roof system, including patent validity and infringement analyses and reports.
This expert has worked on several patent cases involving the design and function of mechanical systems on automotive products and vehicles.
Start Automotive Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #254745
This expert attended a prestigious college of design, graduated with honors, and was promptly selected to work with a luxury car manufacturer in a newly created North American design studio.
This expert’s interest in alternative fuel vehicles was piqued by participation in the MCC concept design, which formed the basis for the SMART car. This expert’s early successes established a reputation as an innovative and conscientious automotive designer.
This expert moved on to another automobile manufacturer, where this expert worked on concept designs to help move the primarily electronics company into the auto arena. When a luxury auto manufacturer decided to open an American-based design studio, this expert was recruited for a senior design position as the first designer hired. This expert’s work was instrumental in the finished exterior design.
Fueled by early success, this expert was committed to design work offering clients a leveraged advantage using design. This expert established a design studio with a focus on design-driven vehicular design, design consulting and product portfolio consultation. Clients include international auto manufacturers, start-up vehicle companies, major after-market accessory suppliers, as well as power-sports companies.
This expert is also an Associate Professor, teaching automotive design to both high level and foundation level students.
Start Automotive Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #256699
This expert has a Masters in Design and a PhD in engineering with course work that spanned product design, safety, industrial systems design, robotics, kinematics and mechanical engineering. This expert's expert witness experience includes intellectual property (patents, trade secrets and trade dress), product design, product liability and mechanical failure analysis, manufacturing system failure, safety analysis, and automotive and motorcycle system failures. This expert is a recognized artist, award winning producer, interior designer, author of a robotics text, journal and conference papers that include automation systems, alternative fuels and automotive engine design, a racing car engine researcher and designer, and the holder of six US patents that include alternative automotive fuels and furniture design. This expert is an Associate Professor in departments of industrial engineering and management systems and in a school of visual arts and design.
Start Automotive Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #261066
This expert is an automotive engineer with many years of professional experience, including working directly for automotive manufacturers. This expert has direct design and testing experience in vehicle structures, crashworthiness, and closure systems engineering. This expert applies expertise to expert witness investigations pertaining to vehicle crashworthiness, crash reconstruction, vehicle systems performance, and exterior/interior upper body mechanisms.
Upon completion of a degree in Mechanical Engineering, this expert held positions in Body Design, Closures Design, and Crash Safety. As a Crash Safety engineer, this expert was responsible for ensuring achievement of dynamic safety targets, both on a component basis and as complete vehicle performance. This included work in both the virtual design phase by simulation analysis, as well as overseeing and analyzing physical crash testing. This expert performed design/test work on sedans, pickup trucks, crossovers, and cargo vehicles throughout the entire development lifecycle and into mass production.
Continuing an automotive career, this expert then worked in Research & Development, where this expert was responsible for closures design engineering as a design team chief. This expert led a team of design engineers in developing all aspects of minivan slide doors. This expert also served as design chief for minor-model updates on pickup truck door and tailgate closures. This expert has expertise in all elements of upper body design, including structures, dynamic and static crash safety, sealing, NVH, power-door systems, latches, and exterior/interior components, among others.
This expert earned an Engineering degree from one of the nation's most respected programs. This expert has accumulated a multitude of patents for key innovations in upper body design. This expert's education and deep industry experience designing and testing vehicles qualify this expert to investigate a broad range of vehicle topics.
Start Automotive Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #237271
This expert has many years of experience in the automotive industry. This expert is a veteran of automotive component litigation, having testified at trial numerous times in high profile automotive component matters. This expert has extensive design, testing, and development engineering experience in the automotive industry and is thoroughly experienced in the design of linkages, brackets, sealing, and mounting designs. This expert has tested and worked on structures and systems for vehicles that include sunroofs, convertible roofs, closures, as well as testifying about compliance of these systems to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, including FMVSS 216 Roof Crush Resistance, FMVSS 214 Side Impact Protection, FMVSS 208 – Occupant Crash Protection, FMVSS 201 Upper Interior Head Protection. This expert has also served as an expert witness and corporate representative, where this expert analyzed defect claims, many of which involved mechanical and structural systems, and testified in depositions and trials throughout the United States.
Due to extensive experience in the automotive industry, this expert is intimately familiar with sealing issues. For the U.S. Army, this expert worked on numerous systems and their associated issues involving hatches, doors, see-through armor, gates, and the associated mechanisms linkages, reinforcements, as well as systems and components that employ hard or soft materials, as well as the associated accessibility, serviceability, durability and reliability of these systems and components.
This expert is thoroughly experienced in Design for Assembly as well as the quality and reliability issues associated with component and system design. This expert is a Licensed Professional Engineer with a BS in chemical engineering, and a BS and an MS in electrical engineering.
This expert has served extensively as an expert witness and has testified, authored reports, and analyzed patents and prior art in numerous automotive cases. This expert has extensive experience in infringement/non-infringement, and patent validity/invalidity, including 101, 102, 103, 112 and prior art arguments for automotive and transportation components and systems, thoroughly understands the issues involved in intellectual property and patent litigation and is a registered patent attorney with the USPTO. This expert has done analyses under literal infringement and the under the doctrine of equivalents, as well as direct infringement, contributory infringement, inducement of infringement, willful infringement, authored numerous reports and declarations and put together claim charts for infringement/non-infringement contentions, invalidity and validity arguments (including secondary considerations such has nexus/commercial success), claim construction hearings (in support of Markman briefs and hearings), and has authored numerous expert reports including ITC testimony documents, for IPR matters as an automotive/mechanical systems expert, for numerous intellectual property and patent cases, and has deposition and/or testified in Inter Partes Review proceedings before the PTAB, as well as various Federal District Courts. This expert also has extensive deposition and trial testimony experience, including testifying experience in IP and patent litigation cases. This expert has authored reports and declarations for numerous intellectual property and patent cases, and has testified in Inter Partes Review proceedings before the PTAB, as well as various Federal District Courts.
Start Automotive Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #252121
This expert is a full-time automotive consultant and expert witness. As a Product engineer with an automobile manufacturer, this expert focused on Truck Exhaust system design and engineering, including thermal management, quality and reliability. This expert also had cost-management responsibility for all truck product exhaust system components. As a vehicle engineer, this expert was involved in the entire lifecycle of vehicle design and manufacture. This expert designed and engineered systems for concept vehicles, tuned and validated systems on prototype vehicles, resolved manufacturing issues during production, and made improvements to enhance vehicle quality and safety after the start of manufacture. This expert has experience as an expert witness in automotive matters.
Start Automotive Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #258974
This expert is a full professor in a Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering. This expert is a licensed engineer and has been actively involved in the design and evaluation of advanced power producing systems for many years. This expert is the director of an Automotive Research Center and the head of a graduate Automotive Engineering program.
This expert has been involved in advanced throttle control fuel injection/combustion systems and was funded by NASA in advanced gas turbine engine fuel injection and combustion systems. Since that time, this expert has also been involved in optimizing fuel, throttle and fuel injection and combustion systems for transportation automotive and trucking applications along with racing applications. This expert has hands on experience in dyno testing of complex throttle and fuel injection systems along with track testing and advanced computational modeling on supercomputing clusters.
This expert has chaired technical sessions for the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) in exhaust and particulate emissions systems, direct injection spark and compression ignition engines, fuel injection and sprays, HCCI combustion, hybrid electric vehicle powertrains, high efficiency engine concepts, multidimensional engine modeling, on-board diagnostics, fuels and fuel additives, cold start characteristics, engine boosting systems, dual fuel combustion, spark assisted compression ignition combustion and heady duty lubricants.
Areas of interest are jet and rocket propulsion systems, advanced low pollutant emission, high efficiency combustions systems for advanced aircraft and automotive applications, alternative fuels and renewable energy systems.
This expert has been deposed and testified in court over 60 times as an expert witness involving the design and analysis of advanced Mechanical Engineering systems. Further, this expert has been involved with numerous cases an expert related to intellectual property and patent litigation, including cases with related to engine control and throttle systems.
Start Automotive Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #212442
This expert has testified in two trials and ten depositions with over fifteen years of litigation support experience. This expert provided technical expertise in a patent infringement litigation regarding the design of a high pressure fuel injection pump. This expert has decades of experience in the automotive field and many years in dual fuels and gasoline engines including both two- and four-cycle. This expert has worked specifically on light-weight engines for a variety of applications. This expert has conducted failure analysis testing on fuel injection systems and LNG storage systems found in heavy duty trucks. This expert has also managed design projects for high pressure gasoline fuel injection systems for two-cycle engines. As a forensic engineer, this expert has investigated the failure of fuel injectors which caused water contamination of the fuel system.
Start Automotive Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #232289
This automotive seat expert specializes in automotive seat system design and interior occupant safety, with experience contributing to early child safety seat design.
This expert has worked at a major automobile manufacturer on product litigation matters primarily involving seating systems, recliners, occupant restraints, and body-structure crashworthiness. This expert holds several patents and has provided testimony on several occasions.
Start Automotive Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #232512
This automotive seat expert holds a PhD and has expertise in seat assembly, seatbelts, airbag performance, and biomechanics. This expert holds over 30 patents, including inventions related to automotive seating.
Automotive seat system work has included analysis of alleged design, manufacturing, and testing defects, including review of design, engineering methodologies, manufacturer testing, and applicable industry standards. Before consulting, this expert held engineering roles at major automotive corporations.
Start Automotive Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #252163
This automotive systems expert has over 45 years of active involvement in automotive design, testing, and evaluation of drivetrains, suspension systems, brake systems, chassis control systems, including electronic stability control systems, vehicle handling, and vehicle stability. This expert's automotive career includes engineering, designing, and testing components for automotive manufacturers, OEMs, and Tier 1 suppliers; integrating vehicles and vehicle systems; test-track and road testing of dynamic vehicle behavior; validating components and systems for OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers; designing and preparing racecars; and driving racecars.
This expert has invented and developed advanced all-wheel drive systems used by leading SUV and car manufacturers. During the integration of these systems into individual vehicle platforms, this expert worked closely with development teams on vehicle dynamics integration. Following an intensive over 15-year vehicle research and development career and vehicle handling work with a broad range of U.S. and European automobile manufacturers, this expert began conducting detailed systems analyses of vehicle handling and stability issues that lead to catastrophic injury accidents. Over the last 25 years, this expert has conducted numerous detailed systems analyses of catastrophic injury crashes in accordance with established industry practices and protocols published by SAE. This expert has worked with and participated in dynamic vehicle testing for handling and safety issues with OEM and supplier engineers on many proving grounds and test tracks, testing and evaluating vehicles manufactured by many OEMs.
More specifically, this expert has worked on the development and testing of ESC, including manufacturer-specific implementations, with several automotive manufacturers and suppliers. This expert has detailed knowledge and experience with hydroplaning subroutines and ESC technology, from concept through implementation, and is capable of downloading, reading, and interpreting vehicle control system code where access is available.
This expert is currently conducting research relating to advanced automotive technology, including design and technology analysis involving design defects and alternative designs; automotive systems and components testing and scientific validation, including durability, reliability, rollover, and handling tests; automotive design, technology, vehicle dynamics, handling, and stability research and consulting; and evaluation of feasibility, performance, and potential effects of design alternatives and available technology.
This expert has over 20 years of expert witness experience, including numerous matters involving ESC, testing, reports, and testimony.
Start Automotive Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #258997
This braking systems expert holds a Ph.D. and PE and is a full professor in mechanical and civil engineering at a well-regarded technical university. This expert is a past director of an automotive research center and head of a graduate automotive engineering program, with over 50 years of experience testing braking systems for street racing and off-road vehicles.
This expert has expertise in the design of braking systems for automotive, trucking, and off-road applications involving ATVs, including braking-system design and advising engineering Baja competitions. These ATVs undergo individual inspections, including dynamic testing of braking systems.
This expert has been deposed and testified in court over 60 times as an expert witness.
Start Automotive Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #277370
This automotive radiator expert is experienced in engineering analysis and forensic engineering analysis, with responsibility for engineering design and development, vehicle component analysis and vehicle testing, robotic manufacturing, material handling and processing equipment, and manufacturing process analysis. As a board-certified Forensic Engineer, this expert's professional emphasis and credentials include safety, products liability, industry standards research, accident investigation, defect analysis of products, manufacturing processes, and manufacturing equipment.
This expert is an experienced expert witness with direct involvement in matters including commercial litigation involving automotive NHTSA national recall causation analysis, investigation of automotive fuel system malfunction resulting in NHTSA national recall and class action lawsuits, and automobile and truck accident causation analysis. This expert has performed over 275 engineering analysis projects related to litigation, is a qualified expert witness in Machine Design and Mechanical Engineering, and has testified in both Federal courts and courts of general jurisdiction.
Start Automotive Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #282663
This automotive and safety expert is a PE with over 30 years of experience as a mechanical and design engineer, specializing in automotive seats and restraints. This expert's background includes accident reconstruction, restraint systems, and automotive seating. This expert is a member of a prominent automotive engineering association and holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a JD.
Start Automotive Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #286387
This automotive electronics, control systems, and failure analysis expert has expertise in electrical and electronic systems, including advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), automotive electronics, consumer electronics, electric vehicles (EVs), and other battery-powered devices, and holds a BS in Electrical Engineering (EE), an MS in EE, and a PhD focused on electronics, closed-loop feedback-based systems, and component/system integration.
This expert specializes in evaluating the safety of electrical system designs, including failure analysis investigations and product liability issues. This expert has expertise in evaluating technologies for efficacy under diverse environmental conditions, variability in design implementation and sensor utilization, and performance across a wide variety of scenarios. These evaluations are supported by rigorous design analyses, extensive performance testing, and simulated-failure testing.
This expert focuses on the analysis of complex control systems, large-scale and small-scale protection circuitry, device construction quality, and complete system functionality and performance. This expert works extensively on evaluating the safety of consumer and automotive electronics through component and system-level design reviews, electrical testing, and on-site inspections, and regularly performs failure analysis investigations relating to home, automotive, and industrial claims.
This expert has a deep understanding of relay technology, functionality, and failure, is a registered PE with electrical and electronics expertise in Arizona, and has over 10 years of post-PhD experience in failure analysis, electronics design review, and risk analysis.
Start Automotive Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #286387
This EV charging expert holds a PhD, is a PE, and has many years of experience investigating the safety, reliability, and performance of EV electrical, electronic, and control systems, as well as EV charging infrastructure. This expert has expertise in EV charging protocols, standards, and risks associated with EV charging across different vehicle manufacturers, EV charging station technologies, and charge port designs.
Start Automotive Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #286673
This automotive systems expert is a registered professional mechanical engineer in California who specializes in investigating vehicle systems, with over 15 years of experience at a major automotive manufacturer. This expert has performed numerous vehicle crash and safety compliance tests under contract with a federal highway safety agency. This expert's work includes accident investigation, automotive and design engineering, failure analysis, and related areas. This expert has extensive prior litigation experience, including multiple depositions and courtroom testimony.
Start Automotive Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #288619
This airbag/automotive safety expert has over 25 years of automotive engineering experience, including over 20 years focused on airbag and safety system design and development. This expert works in automotive safety, including airbag system design, crash sensing, frontal impact, side impact, rollover, and rear impact.
This expert specializes in EDR black box data analysis, evaluation of airbag deployment timing, evaluation of system sensing design, vehicle performance testing and product defect analysis, vehicle sensor instrumentation, onboard vehicle data analysis, vehicle computer imaging and diagnostics, and advanced driver assistance systems testing.
This expert previously worked for a major automotive manufacturer and served as a lead engineer and designer of airbag crash sensing and related safety systems for frontal impact, rear impact, side impact, rollover, and occupant classification systems. This expert designed satellite crash sensors and associated crash sensing algorithms, as well as the primary crash sensing algorithm for a Sensing and Diagnostic Module used in an advanced airbag system developed in response to federal safety requirements.
For many years, this expert has served as an Expert Witness consultant, primarily addressing airbag and safety system failures and Crash Data Recording interpretations.
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