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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Vehicle Design experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Vehicle Design landscape.
Expert Witness #232681
This expert is a consultant to the RV industry specializing in design and manufacture. This expert spent many years at one of the world's largest RV manufacturers as Director of Engineering and Product Compliance of the Recreational Vehicle Group. As the chief engineer, this expert was involved in the selection and installation of RV levelling systems. Additionally, this expert was responsible for providing engineering input to vehicle designers at all stages of design and prototyping to assure regulatory compliance, structural integrity and functionality. This expert is an experienced expert witness, providing deposition testimony over forty times, as well as testimony in Federal and State courts and before officials of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Start Vehicle 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 Vehicle Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #254348
This expert serves as President and technical director of a highly respected and sought-after consultancy providing automotive research and development, data acquisition, testing, vehicle dynamics, and design engineering services to both the off-road and military vehicle industry. While the bulk of this expert's success and reputation has been built around work in off-road motorsports, designing and developing specialized off-road vehicles, this expert has taken that knowledge and experience and provided it to the military. This expert has done a lot of work on military vehicle projects. This expert worked on the design and development of a family of high mobility military vehicles. This expert has provided prototype design and build services to both Marine Corps and Army programs which required building seventeen differently configured prototype concept vehicles. Many of this expert's military projects are confidential and/or proprietary in nature. This expert is currently consulting as an Off-Road Specialist.
Start Vehicle 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 Vehicle Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #256004
This expert holds a PhD in Engineering Strategic Management. This expert's research and thesis was on: A Decision Making Model for Outsourcing and Offshoring of Product Design and Development within the Automotive Industry. This expert is a Chartered Engineer with many years of strategic global product design and development experience. This expert has extensive Electric Vehicle product development and strategy experience across the entire value chain from strategy definition, marketing, concept/design, engineering, manufacturing and launch/serial production, with a strong focus on deployment of electric vehicle technologies. This expert is serving as CTO of an EV-startup and can easily review the schematics of an EV to determine its viability. This expert can design a plant, and has experience with determining if it's better for an OEM to manufacturer a car or outsource it.
Start Vehicle Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #234101
This expert is a licensed professional engineer and professor of Mechanical Engineering where this expert teaches courses on product design and engineering design methodology. This expert has developed laboratories for product design and reverse engineering. Holding a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, this expert has experience with sensors, actuators and controllers. This expert's expertise extends to a range of sensors used in the field of automotive crash safety, including airbag development, rollover detection, stability control, and digital steering. Such sensors are similar to those used in recreational vehicle leveling systems. This expert is well-published and has presented on recreational vehicle cases. This expert has analyzed recreational vehicle and automotive patent claims as an expert witness.
Start Vehicle Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #252122
This expert is a Mechanical Engineer, licensed Professional Engineer and member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and ASME. This expert has been qualified as an expert in vehicle engineering, crashworthiness, vehicle repair, and accident reconstruction, in State and Federal courts.
This expert occupied a variety of engineering positions with automobile manufacturers. This expert’s expertise covers a diverse body of work in all aspects of vehicle design and manufacture, from cradle to grave. This expert designed and engineered systems for vehicles before a single prototype had been built, tuned and validated systems on prototype vehicles, assisted the manufacturing plant to resolve manufacturing issues while building 300 -700 vehicles a day, and made improvements to enhance vehicle quality after the start of manufacture.
This expert was responsible for the design and engineering for a diesel fuel system. This included fuel tank design, filler tube, fuel supply and return lines, thermal management, and impact energy management. This expert ensured fuel system met FMVSS 301, Fuel System Integrity, to prevent post-impact fuel-fed fires, and addressed quality and reliability issues in current production parts. This expert designed and released future model parts, supported prototype builds, and planned and executed trips to test functionality in extreme climates. This expert was also responsible for quality enhancements to all products’ fuel systems.
In addition, this expert is the inventor on two (2) US Patents dealing with vehicle fuel tank design and engineering and is published in the field.
Start Vehicle 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 Vehicle Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #254747
This automotive designer expert is a design consulting founder and senior automotive design leader with experience focused on automotive and EV design, including consulting for a number of EV companies and serving in design leadership for a solar/EV vehicle company.
This expert attended a prestigious design college in California and graduated with honors before being selected by a major European automotive manufacturer for a new North American design studio, the manufacturer's first design studio outside its headquarters. This expert's early work established a reputation as an innovative and conscientious automotive designer.
This expert later worked with other major automotive manufacturers and helped contribute to the finished design of a high-performance sports car.
Fueled by this success, this expert established a design studio focused on design-driven vehicle design, design consulting, and product portfolio consultation. Clients have included international auto manufacturers, start-up vehicle companies, major after-market accessory suppliers, and power-sports companies. This expert also serves in a senior design leadership role for a solar/EV vehicle company.
This expert's experience with lighting includes concept development from aesthetic to functional design, including shape development, packaging, and Color/Material/Finish selection.
Functional design experience includes ensuring adequate illumination across vehicle lighting layouts, including head and tail lamps, side markers and turn indicators, interior lighting, and reflective areas sometimes built into a lamp module.
Engineering requirements experience includes selecting appropriate materials that can withstand environmental conditions such as temperature variations, UV exposure, and mechanical stress; considering manufacturing processes that can efficiently produce lighting elements; and ensuring that lamps integrate with vehicle systems, including electrical systems.
Legal requirements experience includes ensuring that FMVSS and other standards, including EU ECE regulations, are met, designing for homologation, and considering environmental regulations.
Prototype and testing experience includes work from mock-ups to samples as well as validation testing.
Collaboration experience includes working with in-house and supplier engineering resources to maintain design integrity.
DFM and final implementation experience includes Designing For Manufacturing while upholding aesthetics and manufacturing and legal requirements.
This expert has additionally served as a consultant and advisor to an international vehicle manufacturer and continues to work with automotive research and development organizations on advanced and production design products. Client work across OEM and other vehicle design categories demonstrates continued influence in automotive design. The design consulting business has operated for over 20 years.
Start Vehicle Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #264310
This accident reconstruction expert holds a Ph.D., is a P.E., and is a Professional Engineer with over 25 years of experience in forensic engineering and accident reconstruction. This expert has investigated thousands of motor vehicle collisions, applying expertise in vehicle dynamics, crash causation, and failure analysis. This expert's expertise includes accident reconstruction and vehicle dynamics, crash causation and impact analysis, roadway design and safety systems, and failure analysis of mechanical systems.
This expert has reconstructed electric vehicle collisions and is familiar with vehicle data download and interpretation processes. This expert has extensive testimony experience in state and federal courts, providing reports, depositions, and trial testimony for both plaintiffs and defendants.
Start Vehicle Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #268489
This vehicle defect expert is a Mechanical Engineer with over 15 years of experience in vehicle and crash reconstruction. In this role, this expert has provided technical investigations, crash reconstruction, testing, analysis, reports, and testimony to assist with litigation involving motor vehicle collisions, vehicle design and manufacturing defects, improper repairs, and vehicle fires. This expert also has several years of experience in the automotive restraint industry, including design and project engineering roles with tier-1 suppliers and design and release engineering work for a major automotive manufacturer. This expert's specialty areas include crashworthiness product liability matters involving airbags, inflators, crash sensors, and seatbelts, including airbag deployment thresholds and investigations into why an airbag improperly deployed or failed to deploy.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Vehicle Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #277138
This vehicle design expert is a mechanical engineering graduate of a prestigious university whose professional career has focused on motorcycles and human factors engineering. In senior vehicle engineering leadership roles, this expert has led engineering teams in developing new vehicles from concept through production and safety certification, and has patents involving two-wheeled vehicle designs.
This expert has experience with motorcycle design, powersports equipment, vehicle safety, and human factors issues, including safety considerations involving frame structure, passenger injury mechanisms, and protection against hair and clothing entrapment. This expert's work has also included vehicle design considerations for international markets involving garment-related safety guards.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Vehicle Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #288617
This airbag and automotive safety expert is Spanish-speaking and works as an Expert Witness and Consulting Expert in automotive safety, with specific disciplines in airbag system design, crash sensing, frontal impact, side impact, rollover, and rear impact. This expert has over 25 years of automotive engineering experience, including more than 20 years focused on airbag and safety system design and development.
This expert and team specialize 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 leads a consultancy that handles litigation cases and claims of varying size and scope. Clients are mostly attorneys and insurance companies, and the firm also handles challenging engineering projects involving the laws of physics and solutions not readily available in the market. Doing so requires an extremely deep knowledge base in a variety of disciplines, which this expert and team possess.
Start Vehicle Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #293872
This vehicle expert is a Professional Engineer with Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering and specializes in vehicle and mobile equipment engineering, with an emphasis in vehicle accident reconstruction.
This expert has inspected and tested agricultural tractors, skid steer loaders, construction equipment, commercial trucks and trailers, motorcycles, and passenger vehicles as part of forensic engineering investigations and accident reconstructions. This expert has experience in the maintenance and operation of farm equipment, including mower tractors.
This expert has extensive experience with corporate engineering design processes and has reviewed engineering designs and design process execution both as a corporate engineer and in forensic engineering work.
This expert has experience as an expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Vehicle Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #2372799
This custom RV, design/build, and mechanical/electrical integration expert holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering, a BS in Chemical Engineering, and has over 35 years of automotive and vehicle engineering and fabrication experience. This expert is a licensed Professional Engineer and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, with direct experience in engineering and engineering management for major automotive manufacturers, the supply base, and a military organization. This expert has testified extensively as an expert witness and has inspected, evaluated, and analyzed over 1,000 vehicles for potential defects and safety concerns.
This expert has served as an expert in RV customization matters involving custom motor home design, customization, buildout, inspection, manufacturing-facility analysis, vehicle documentation, and expert reporting. This expert is thoroughly experienced in custom RV design/build and manufacturing standards, the integration of custom RV features and facilities such as kitchen, bath, and living quarters, and the battery and electrical requirements and placement for engine and mechanical features as well as RV features and appliances. This expert also has experience with powerplants and heavy-duty engines.
This expert has served in matters involving custom vehicle buildout methods and turnaround, including automotive, van/RV, truck, bus, and truck service body customization and custom buildout. Additional experience includes working with fabricators, custom shops, vehicle repair facilities, and custom buildout facilities, including evaluating vehicle safety and fire risks associated with custom builds. This expert has observed quality, reliability, and safety concerns in custom RV assembly practices.
This expert has extensive experience ensuring that vehicles comply with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, ECE regulations, corporate standards, industry standards, international government regulations, safety guidelines, quality and reliability standards, and due-care requirements.
Experience includes evaluating proper vehicle retrofit, aftermarket accessory installation, and customization; assessing design, manufacture, fabrication, construction, and assembly for compliance with product safety, quality, due-care, regulatory, NFPA, VIAS, FMVSS, reliability, durability, and product safety standards and requirements; and assessing proper quality and product safety for processes, assembly, fabrication, and installation, including quality assurance, across automotive OEMs, military and defense, dealerships, repair shops, custom outfitters, aftermarket accessory custom fabricators, retrofitters, and assemblers.
This expert has also assessed industry manufacturing, assembly, fabrication, product and process quality, and product safety; determined whether vehicle systems installation and construction comply with product safety, due-care, regulatory, standards, requirements, and regulations; conducted system and component evaluations, quality and reliability evaluations, design validation plans and reports, and failure modes and effects analyses; and analyzed and assessed manufacturing and assembly of vehicle systems and components for proper product safety during use.
This expert has testified extensively in matters involving death and serious injury from vehicle incidents and has served in product liability matters involving vehicle safety, defects, manufacturing, and customization issues.
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