Design Analysis Expert Witnesses
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Design analysis expert witness candidates are often certified as a professional engineer, with extensive experience and expertise in mechanical engineering, structural engineering, automotive engineering, civil engineering, or electrical engineering – depending on the specific product or technology involved in the case. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request a design analysis professional with prior expert witness experience. An expert witness carries the responsibility of providing testimony before the court in a manner whereby a jury and judge can understand the situation and evidence.
In today’s world, most product design and analysis are accomplished with software technology that can simulate the physical behavior of a product. It oftentimes replaces the need for a physical prototype, saving design engineers and manufactures time and money. Design analysis methodology encompasses any product, and can provide analysis and information from the structural and dynamic aspects of mechanical components, to the thermal analysis of systems.
Engineering design analysis specialists are sought after for matters including construction defects, contract disputes over a defective product delivery, a consumer product liability case, patent infringement, trade secrets, personal injury, manufacturing analysis, and accident reconstruction work. Expert witness service by a design analysis expert could include product testing, failure analysis, forensic engineering, expert report preparation, expert opinion, deposition expert testimony, and courtroom testimony. In addition, attorney clients may seek an engineering analysis expert for pre-litigation consulting work.
Cahn Litigation Services has been approached by numerous clients to locate engineering expert witnesses that can provide litigation support for design analysis matters. The firm has an earned reputation for providing qualified expert witness candidates with the perfect combination of technical expertise and testimony experience to support each unique project and its nuances.
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Design Analysis Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Design Analysis experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Design Analysis landscape.
Expert Witness #250547
This expert has many years of experience in product development including working within an industrial design studio. This expert has worked on a number of projects for a drinkware company. Those projects included:
- Manufacturing Process Analysis - Forensic analysis of current manufacturing methods for drink ware manufacturer.- Design Analysis - Forensic design analysis of hydration vessel for drinkware manufacturer.- Reviewed a new design for an accessory handle and conducted finite element analysis of the design based upon functional product usage and recommended design changes which are now part of their handle designs.This expert designed, prototyped, and tested a new recyclable keg system for wine manufacturers, which involved a specialized double bag system that could be used with conventional CO2 tap systems.
This expert also conducted a forensic analysis, (mechanical and thermal), and redesign of airline flip down trays. An aerospace company was having trouble with their flip down tray warping due to thermal issues, so this expert conducted a series of thermal tests and then redesigned them using other materials that were still approved by the FAA. In addition to those projects this expert has been involved as the lead ME in the evaluation of various refrigeration technologies for the development of a Solar Air to Water System and this expert is a named inventor on a produce refrigeration patent.
Finally, this expert has extensive prior litigation experience having written numerous expert reports and having been deposed nearly a dozen times. This includes serving as an expert in trade dress cases and both utility and design related patent cases.
Start Design Analysis Expert SearchExpert Witness #226931
This expert has many years of experience in microcircuit and semiconductor technologies and has developed skills in areas of circuit design and analysis, device fabrication and assembly, testing, marketing, control system design and analysis, manufacturing operations and respective areas of quality, reliability, and defect / failure analysis.
This expert worked for a technology company in design, production, and QA, and was the QA manager of a DRAM Wafer Fabrication Facility.
Start Design Analysis Expert SearchExpert Witness #257821
This expert is a Chair of Engineering and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. This expert held a variety of engineering positions in industry. This expert has practiced as an independent professional engineer. This expert’s practice areas include digital systems design and analysis, computer architecture, computer systems security, embedded systems, and signal processing algorithms. This expert is an author or co-author of over 250 technical articles and five books and is a named inventor on five US patents and five provisional or patents pending. This expert has consulted with and performed sponsored research for several different federal government agencies and industrial organizations. This expert’s research activities generally revolve around modeling, simulation, formal verification, and design of digital systems including both conventional electronic and emerging technology implementations.
This expert wrote machine-code designed to purposely exploit design errors and to invoke the test circuitry in the chip. In academia, this expert has taught digital design at the introductory and advanced levels, including embedded systems design, programmable logic, and ASIC. All of these classes include the teaching of test methods as a critical part of classes. This expert is also familiar with test standards for BIST including JTAG 1149.1, etc.
This expert has worked with both plaintiffs and defendants and has experience testifying in depositions and trials. This expert is an author of numerous expert reports and declarations for the plaintiff and defense, and also numerous declarations and IPR-related reports. Other experience includes pre-filing/due diligence analysis, prior art searching and analysis/rebuttal, forensics, reverse engineering, software/firmware/HDL listing analysis, drafting infringement, invalidity, and rebuttal contentions, claim construction/Markman preparation, tutorial development, direct examination Q&A drafting. This expert is a named inventor on five US patents and five patent applications.
Start Design Analysis Expert SearchExpert Witness #210598
This expert, besides being a Full-Professor of mechanical engineering, has performed engineering analysis and provided expert witness testimony and consulting, including validity/invalidity arguments in patent infringement litigation, in the areas of Mechanical Design, Stress Analysis and Materials. The focus of this expert's graduate research was on vessels (read pipes) under high pressure and flanges (read couplings) to join the vessels. This expert has also been involved in cases involving various types of piping as well as the failure of clamps and couplings used for connecting piping under internal pressure. As a Professor of Mechanical Engineering with specialization in the areas of design, materials science, and failure analysis, this expert teaches concepts needed for design of couplings.
Start Design Analysis Expert SearchExpert Witness #225926
This expert is president and Founder of a highly successful, internationally acclaimed consulting firm, offering services in usability science, formal user-centered product design, high-performance user interface design and design IP rights. This expert is a Certified Human Factors Engineering Professional BCPE. This expert has managed over 4,000 research and development projects over a long career as a leading expert in human factors engineering, product design, and design research.
This expert has a BS in Industrial Design and a Masters in ergonomics and biomechanics. This expert worked directly with product design pioneers. This expert was directly responsible for research and development of mission-critical user interfaces, including the design of primary trading systems. This expert's experience spans many years and includes consumer, commercial, military, and aerospace applications. This expert served on several national and international panels and has chaired two ANSI standards committees. This expert has consulted with many leading corporations on strategic issues of screen-based UX optimization, product design, usability science, Intellectual property, and fixed to virtual migration of products and services.
This expert has served as an expert in over 75 major IP cases covering design patents, trade dress, copyright, utility patents related to GUI & product design for the most demanding and high-visibility clients and law firms. The following is an example of the research services this expert offers designed to improve legal outcomes in an increasingly complex litigation environment:
- Pre-Complaint Rapid Infringement Assessment- Prior Art Research and Analysis (Unconventional Sources)- Consumer Research for the Ordinary Observer Test- Design Patent Damages Research and Strategy- Consumer Research for Copyright Infringement Analysis- Specialized Trial Visual Aid and Demonstration Development- Trial Narrative Testing- Design Change Analysis to Reduce Possible InfringementThis expert holds numerous U.S. and international patents and has been quoted as an expert in the field. This expert is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on UX optimization, usability science, user interface design and IP related matters. This expert lectures at leading graduate programs.
Start Design Analysis 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 Design Analysis Expert SearchExpert Witness #209098
This user interface design expert is an EE with over 30 years of experience in a diverse set of technologies, including multiplayer video gaming, user input device design, including joystick, mouse, and trackball technologies, and related manufacturing practices.
This expert has deep experience as a testifying expert in over 60 matters involving technology for user input devices, handheld controllers, and video gaming. This includes testimony in a mobile communication suit in an international court where the judge cited this expert's analysis on all points of contention.
This expert's patent infringement analysis has contributed to significant settlement results in online transaction patent litigation. This expert also worked on the design and manufacture of user input devices, including mouse, joystick, and touchpad technologies, for interactive game interfaces, and designed and developed network gaming prototypes for online lottery and casino-style games.
Start Design Analysis Expert SearchExpert Witness #217419
This mechanical design and structural engineer expert holds a Ph.D. and P.E. credential and is an accomplished engineering executive with over 25 years of experience in failure analysis, mechanical systems, and forensic engineering. As a senior leader at a forensic engineering and investigation firm, this expert oversees complex technical investigations and provides strategic guidance on high-value litigation and international arbitration involving mechanical engineering, applied mechanics, aviation, and rail issues.
Widely recognized as a subject matter expert, this expert combines deep technical knowledge with practical field experience. This expert integrates mechanical design review, regulatory compliance, and engineering analysis to resolve disputes across infrastructure, energy, and transportation sectors. Areas of expertise include the mechanical behavior of materials, system reliability, and safety assessments, with experience involving pipelines, aircraft, industrial machinery, and power generation components.
The team includes a seasoned mechanical engineer with P.E., MS, MBA, and CFSE credentials and over 30 years of experience applying knowledge of mechanical systems to analyze failures, assess system reliability, and optimize condition monitoring programs across a wide range of industries. This expert's work spans critical infrastructure in refineries, power plants, chemical facilities, pipelines, and HVAC systems, often in support of litigation, product recalls, IP claims, and construction disputes. Technical expertise includes mechanical and piping systems such as valves, compressors, pumps, turbines, boilers, heat exchangers, and control systems. This expert is proficient in advanced tools and software for Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), SCADA systems, Digital Signal Processing (DSP), and diagnostics such as cavitation and water hammer analysis. In the oil and gas sector, this expert has conducted structural and fatigue analyses for downhole tools and led R&D initiatives related to component design and failure prevention. This expert has also developed procedures, delivered technical training, and authored best practices on wear, fatigue, and lifecycle integrity.
The team also includes a Senior Consultant with a Ph.D. and a strong background in material science and failure analysis across oil and gas, industrial, and biomaterials applications. This expert's expertise spans component failure investigation, material fatigue, metallurgical selection, and root cause analysis, with a focus on pipeline integrity and corrosion mitigation. This expert has led a wide range of technical projects, including the development of field testing and sampling protocols, the qualification of novel production chemistries, and the design and commissioning of field-testing and pigging facilities. This expert has worked extensively on in-line inspections (ILI) for pipeline compliance and the development of integrity management plans, particularly for internal and external corrosion threats in oil and gas operations. This expert combines deep technical knowledge with hands-on engineering insight, offering a comprehensive approach to solving complex problems in materials performance, failure prevention, and asset integrity.
This expert and the team are experienced expert witnesses and litigation consultants.
Start Design Analysis Expert SearchExpert Witness #261464
This textile educator, author, textile consultant, and expert witness has over 25 years of experience as an instructor of textiles at prestigious fashion, textile, and art institutions, with comprehensive experience in fiber and fabric analysis, design genre and historic period identification, pattern and design classification, and end-use evaluation. This expert has authored a number of successful textile science textbooks used in universities in the United States and abroad.
As an instructor of Textile Science, Fabric Identification, and Historic Textiles, this expert offers a wide range of textile consultation services, including experience as a textile expert witness in copyright infringement cases involving textile design, as well as expert reports, consultations, trial graphics, depositions, and trial testimony.
This expert is lab certified in textile testing equipment and methods, including microscopic and chemical fiber analysis, tensile and tearing strength, flammability, Martindale abrasion testing, and related testing procedures.
This expert has comprehensive knowledge of textile applications in apparel, with a focus on fabric and fiber identification, testing, performance expectations and analysis, and appropriate fabric selection for a given silhouette.
For over 15 years, this expert has served as a textiles legal witness in matters involving copyright infringement and forensic fabric identification in over 100 matters, including trial graphics, expert reports, declarations, depositions, and testimony.
Start Design Analysis 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 Design Analysis Expert SearchExpert Witness #278014
This orthopaedic biomedical engineering and medical device expert holds a PhD in Engineering Mechanics with a specialty in Orthopedic Biomechanics and has over 40 years of experience leading an independent engineering consultancy specializing in orthopaedic medical device analysis and medical device design, review, and testing. This expert assists clients with injury mechanics and causation, biomechanical analysis, product design and evaluation, structural analysis, dynamic analysis, and medical and mechanical device design and testing.
This expert has experimentally tested, designed, redesigned, and testified about medical devices, including fixation plates, screws, rods, lumbar and cervical spine fixation devices, total knee replacements, and total hip replacements. This expert also holds academic roles in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering and directs a biomechanics laboratory at a university.
This expert has extensive prior litigation experience involving medical device design and failure.
Start Design Analysis Expert SearchExpert Witness #279041
This traffic engineering expert is a registered Civil Engineer in multiple states and a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) with over 20 years of experience developing traffic engineering planning, design, operations, and maintenance projects, as well as providing research, training, and expert witness services for tort liability cases. This expert is a creative problem solver with a track record of finding opportunities to provide value to clients.
This expert's experience includes Design Concept Reports (DCRs), traffic impact studies, strategic transportation safety plans (STSPs), road safety audits (RSAs), traffic safety studies, all-way stop-control warrant and traffic signal warrant studies, ADA compliance studies, intersection alternatives analysis, traffic signal timing and progression analysis, traffic simulation and visualization modeling, life-cycle cost analysis, benefit-cost analysis, intersection horizontal geometrics, bike and pedestrian design, traffic control, signing, pavement marking, traffic signal, and lighting design. This expert has also led several large-scale asset management projects that moved agencies into compliance with federal requirements for various traffic control and pedestrian facilities, including signing retro-reflectivity, pavement marking retro-reflectivity, and pedestrian signal indications. This expert has provided litigation expert witness services for cases in several states.
Start Design Analysis Expert SearchExpert Witness #282674
This product design expert holds a Ph.D. and P.E. credential, has a Mechanical Engineering degree, and has extensive experience in the design and analysis of commercial products, design review, and commercial product failure analysis.
This expert has worked on commercial product matters, including consumer product design issues, and has addressed both infringement and invalidity arguments in prior cases. This expert has testified on multiple occasions.
Start Design Analysis Expert SearchExpert Witness #283967
This machine safety and machine guarding expert is a senior-level consultant and mechanical engineer who investigates incidents involving personal injuries, fires, and explosions.
This expert provides technical analysis, litigation support, and expert testimony in legal, insurance, and industrial contexts. Personal injury and product liability work has included evaluation of material handling equipment, furniture failures, and other products and machines.
This expert specializes in product failure analysis, load and stress testing, and design analysis of mechanical systems. This expert has investigated equipment and component failures and has experience in the design and fabrication of mechanical components.
Start Design Analysis Expert SearchExpert Witness #285383
This structural engineering expert is a licensed P.E. in a number of southeastern states and has over 15 years of experience in material science, including failure analysis of concrete and coatings, along with over 10 years of experience in civil engineering, including site design and water intrusion in concrete and precast concrete structures. This expert performs scientific investigations and root cause analyses of failed components, structures, and systems. Common issues for analysis include determining contributions toward failure from design, manufacturing methods and material processes, use conditions, maintenance, or application.
This structural engineering expert is a licensed PE in over 5 states, including southeastern states, and is an experienced structural engineer with more than 25 years of experience in building failure, water infiltration testing, structural systems, and construction defects. This expert has testified on structural cases and concrete design, as well as performed forensic analysis of structural failures, water intrusion, and other construction-related issues.
Both structural engineering experts are experienced expert witnesses and litigation consultants.
Start Design Analysis 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 Design Analysis 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 Design Analysis Expert SearchExpert Witness #287915
This materials engineering and polymer science expert holds a Ph.D. and specializes in the design, manufacture, and performance of polymer-based systems used in building and construction, automotive, industrial coating, medical, electronic, and consumer product industries. Areas of expertise include surface analysis, polymer rheology, and chemical, thermal, and mechanical analysis of coatings, adhesives, sealants, fibers, non-wovens, rubbers, elastomers, thermoplastics, thermosets, gels, and novel polymer materials.
This expert has performed numerous project evaluations involving design, performance testing, and failure analysis of polymeric systems used in automotive environments and consumer products, including evaluations of such materials in patent infringement and trade secret disputes. This expert also has direct product development experience using polymer processing techniques such as extrusion and fiber spinning.
Beyond commodity polymers, this expert has research experience defining the structure-property relationships of polymer systems, including block copolymers, polymeric surfactants, polymer blends, polymer brushes, confined films, hydrogels, and hierarchical structures.
This expert has direct experience conducting offset lithography in both academic and industrial settings, including work in a microfabrication facility. Broader expertise includes the analysis, characterization, and performance of surfaces and surface coatings, including extensive familiarity with tools such as AFM used to characterize those properties.
Start Design Analysis 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 Design Analysis Expert SearchExpert Witness #298408
This memory construction and error correction expert brings extensive experience in high-performance and high-dynamic-range analog mixed-signal, custom digital, and RF integrated circuit design, layout, and testing, from concept through production for commercial, military, and space IC products.
This expert has knowledge of IC process development, characterization, and modeling, along with substantial experience obtaining new military, space, and commercial IC business and funding for start-up activities. This expert has provided technical oversight for large IC design teams and has contributed creatively to the solution of difficult IC technical problems.
This expert has authored or co-authored over 100 U.S. patents, hundreds of international patents, and over 15 published conference and journal papers. This expert also has experience at the discrete analog, RF, and mixed-signal level for system analysis, link budget analysis, board-level circuit design and layout, and system design, architecture, and analysis.
This expert is knowledgeable in standards and has experience in memory, error correction, and logic design. This expert has reviewed patent portfolios involving memory construction and supporting error correction coding, including both 1-D and 3-D memories, and has experience with logic design patent portfolio review and claim chart work.
This expert also has experience in memory litigation, including non-testifying expert work.
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