Forensic Engineering Expert Witnesses
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What is a forensic engineering expert witness?
The background of a forensic engineering expert witness will vary greatly depending on the product and technology involved in a case. In general, a forensic engineering expert witness has an engineering discipline degree (i.e., mechanical engineering, materials engineering, civil engineering, structural engineering, or electrical engineering), along with extensive experience in forensic engineering, accident reconstruction, and/or laboratory testing. The chosen expert may be a member of an industry association, such as the National Academy of Forensic Engineers (NAFE).
What types of cases require a forensic engineering expert witness?
The primary purpose of a forensic engineering investigation is to locate the cause of a failure, assist in an accident investigation, or to investigate intellectual property infringement claims. Cahn Litigation Services most often works on cases requiring forensic engineering expertise that revolve around product liability and patent infringement matters.
Forensic engineering expert witness case examples
Representing the plaintiff or defendant, when the need for a forensic investigation expert arises, top litigation firms call on Cahn Litigation Services. Whether the case involves:
- electrocution accident,
- geotechnical engineering,
- construction management liability analysis for insurance companies,
- NFPA’s Life Safety Code,
- forensic analysis of a control system failure,
- fire investigation by a Certified Fire & Explosion Investigator (CFEI),
- traffic accident reconstruction,
- root cause of a building systems’ HVAC corrosion issues,
- safety engineering,
- forensic electrical engineering methodology,
- construction defect issues, or
- any type of matter requiring forensic engineering expertise.
What litigation support work might a forensic engineering expert witness be expected to perform?
Forensic engineering services in support of litigation could include product testing and failure analyses, reverse engineering, research and authoring expert reports, arbitrations, depositions, providing expert opinions, and/or courtroom testimony. In addition, a law firm may request a forensic engineering expert for pre-litigation consulting services. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may require a forensic expert with prior expert witness testimony experience.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a forensic engineering expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Forensic Engineering Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Forensic Engineering experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Forensic Engineering landscape.
Expert Witness #253514
This expert brings to the table many years of industry experience as a Mechanical Engineer skilled in product design, research, and manufacturing, providing valuable insight into design refinement, and product liability/defect claims. This expert has extensive prior litigation experience that includes consumer product forensic engineering, written reports and a significant amount of deposition/courtroom testimony, including several matters on consumer icemakers. During this expert's years of Forensic Engineering, this expert has investigated over a hundred losses many of which have involved icemakers and numerous refrigerator component failures. This expert has represented both plaintiffs and defendants, investigating losses and performing failure analysis. This expert is familiar with refrigerator/freezers with multiple compartment temperature control. This expert has been awarded 3 US Patents.
Start Forensic Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #264315
This expert holds a PhD in Civil Engineering and both an MS and BS in Mechanical Engineering. This expert has been practicing as a forensic engineer since completing the Ph.D. This expert has served as an expert witness in a variety of cases ranging from product design to accident reconstruction.
This expert was heavily involved in the development and testing of two different material handling systems. This expert served as Director of Engineering and General Manager for the offshoot company that did development work on a system to store and sort ISO containers aboard military cargo ships, providing selective discharge while at sea.
With many years of experience investigating and testifying in cases involving a variety of forensic engineering issues, this expert is a leading expert in accident reconstruction and the analysis of mechanical systems and product failures. This expert has a strong background in design, development, and implementation. Over 33 patents have been filed worldwide on behalf of this expert and associated colleagues who invented vehicle storage systems, shipping container handling systems, and material handling and storage methods. This expert has published numerous papers to various organizations covering material handling technology.
This expert is a registered Professional Engineer in three states and stays current with new technology in the field of forensic engineering. This expert is very familiar with the patent process, holds a number of patents in the material handling field, and has served as an expert in patent matters.
Start Forensic Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #231361
This expert is a licensed professional engineer and expert witness who holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. This expert has many years of professional experience in mechanical engineering, consumer product design, research and development, forensic investigation and litigation support. Additionally, this expert holds over twenty patents.
Prior to focusing on work as a forensic mechanical engineer and serving as an expert witness, this expert led an accomplished engineering career designing and developing innovative mechanical components and high-pressure equipment and conducting failure analyses over a broad variety of situations, most of which led to patents. This included designing and developing high-volume machined metal and injection-molded plastic parts, low-pressure seals, springs and stampings as well as manufacturing processes for composites, plastics and adhesive bonding. Working in research and development for major corporations in the aeronautical, petroleum, fluid power and automotive industries, as well as serving for over a decade as a forensic expert witness, this expert draws on a comprehensive background of diverse engineering experience to assist clients with cases involving evaluations of consumer products and commercial, industrial and agricultural equipment for products liability issues and patent disputes, including significant deposition and courtroom testimony experience.
Start Forensic Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #226413
This expert holds an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering. This expert is a Licensed Professional Electronics Engineer and Expert Witness practicing forensic and technical electrical engineering consulting. This expert’s technical engineering practice includes the design, verification, measurement and testing of electronic signal processing hardware circuits and systems, both integrated circuits and electrical modules, which are used for communication and electro-mechanical control. This expert’s forensic engineering practice includes forensic investigation, advising, reporting and testimony in matters regarding intellectual property, patents, failure analysis, product liability, product requirements and specifications.
For many years this expert worked with built-in self-test (BIST) for integrated circuits. Both digital (which is most common) and analog. BIST systems which generate and deliver test stimulus to one or more circuit nodes, capture resulting signals at one or more circuit nodes, process the captured signals to derive an “answer” which is compared to an expected answer, and finally take action depending on the results.
This expert has extensive prior litigation experience, including hostile trial cross-examination and deposition questioning.
Start Forensic Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #253537
This expert has extensive prior litigation experience that includes consumer product forensic engineering, written reports and a significant amount of deposition/courtroom testimony. During this expert's years of Forensic Engineering, this expert has investigated over a thousand losses many of which have involved refrigerators, refrigerator components, refrigeration equipment, and numerous refrigerator failures/failure modes. This expert has represented both plaintiffs and defendants, including manufacturers, sellers and service providers. This expert has also investigated losses and performed failure analysis for various companies/manufacturers directly.
This expert brings to the table many years of industry experience in concept development and testing through commercialization and field support. As Chief Engineer for a beverage company, this expert was responsible for the design, development, testing, manufacturing, failure analysis, commercialization and field support for a new line of cold beverages from visual to high volume, soft serve, real ice cream, and a vending machine as well as existing equipment. This expert is highly familiar with refrigerator/freezers with multiple compartment temperature control.
This expert has been awarded 23 US Patents with others pending.
Start Forensic Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #249401
This expert holds a PhD and serves as Principal of a successful consulting engineering firm. This expert founded the firm to provide comprehensive HVAC, electrical, plumbing, fire protection and forensic engineering services. This expert has served as senior plant engineer at a private research university and brings to the table many years of diverse engineering and contracting experience. This expert has extensive knowledge of building codes, mechanical systems, electrical systems, renewable energy systems and geothermal systems, building envelope and roofing systems, as well as site utilities. This expert has been involved in the design, energy analysis and commissioning for many LEED Certified Buildings. This expert is also a forensic engineering consultant.
Start Forensic Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #265026
This expert is a licensed Professional Engineer (Civil) and an NAFE Diplomate in Forensic Engineering (DFE). This expert is a consultant on construction, forensic engineering, roofing and premises liability providing litigation support on personal injury and construction defect matters. This expert has significant experience writing reports and providing both deposition and trial testimony.
Start Forensic Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #258116
This expert brings to the table many years of experience as the principle investigator of a highly successful forensic consultancy specializing in the fields of Human Factors, Safety Engineering, Industrial Engineering. This expert holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (Mechanical), a Master's Degree in Safety, and a PhD in Industrial Engineering. This expert also serves as adjunct associate professor in a Systems and Industrial Engineering Department in a College of Engineering.
Throughout the years, this expert has been retained to investigate systems for probable potential incident causes due to oversights or mistakes due to design, manufacture, construction and/or maintenance of a product or premise. Using forensic methods coupled with the principles and practices for human factors/ergonomics, systems engineering, industrial engineering, and safety engineering to analyze incidents, these investigations are intended to result in recommendations for modifications of the existing system to reduce the probability of future occurrences. This expert's investigations generally include looking at human performance characteristics and the interaction with the other system components: other humans, the technology, the environment, and the interfaces that are intended to facilitate the interactions. The various human performance characteristics can include 1) the physical (anthropometry, kinematics, strength, joint range of motion), 2) physiological (the sensory systems, performance capacity), 3) psychological (decision making, risk identification, assessment, and aversion, perception, expectations, information processing, communications), and 4) biomechanics (injury causation, forces applied to the body, forces applied by the body).
This expert has served as an expert witness in hundreds of litigated matters. This expert's unique educational and experiential background, combined with meticulous attention to detail provide clients with exceptionally high-quality reports, qualified expert testimony, and effective technical case management.
Start Forensic Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #232632
This expert holds a Professional Engineer certification and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. This expert has provided consulting and expert witness services for many years utilizing and deploying VM environments, including Linux and Windows deployed on VMware, Xen, VirtualBox, AWS, and Azure. This expert has specific experience in the design and implementation of a PCI-compliant secure LAN including virtual machines, disaster recovery, backup and restore systems and more. This expert’s experience also includes forensic recovery on various backup software packages, including magnetic tape and online backup of Windows, Linux, and embedded voice systems. This expert has managed a cloud-based Web hosting environment utilizing 40 virtual machines, and a high-volume secure Web-hosting environment using virtualization. This expert has extensive experience doing source code review and e-discovery on legal cases relating to intellectual property, particularly patents and copyrights.
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