Board Certified Mechanical Engineer
Mechanical Engineer Board Certified, Fire Expert, Ignition of Solid, Ignition of Liquid, Gaseous Fuels, Flame Spread, Fire Spread, Flammable Liquid, Self Heating, Spontaneous Combustion, Wildland Fires, Vehicle Fires, Warehouse Fires, Industrial Fires, Explosions, Laptop Fires, Smoke Detector Product Liability, Residential Fires, Fire Reconstruction, Fire Modeling, LNG Spills, Spacecraft Fire Safety, Applied Physics, Aviation Aircraft Fire, Aviation Aircraft Crash, Electrical Transformer Fire, Rack Storage Fire, Naphthalene, Oil Well Gas Ignition, Oil Well Gas Explosion, Hydrogen Explosion, Rocket Propellant Plant, CFD Modeling of Flame, Piloted Ignition, Diesel Engines Applications, Vapor Fuel Radiation Absorption, Combustion Modified Polyurethane Foam, Trajectories of Embers, Combustion Science,
Expert Witness No. 345
California
Education
PhD - Engineering Science, University of California, San Diego, 1975
MS - Engineering Science, University of California, San Diego, 1973
Dr. Eng - Aeronautical Engineering, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, 1979
Eng - Aeronautical Engineering, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, 1968
Work History
2008 - present
An Engineering Co., Partner
1986 - present
University of California, Berkeley Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Professor
2003 - present
University of California, Berkeley Graduate Division, Associate Dean
1982 - 1986
University of California, Berkeley Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Professor
1980 - 1982
University of California, Berkeley Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Assistant Professor
1980 - present
Freelance technical consultant for fire-related litigation and research
1980 - 1980
Princeton University Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospa
Northwestern University Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Professor
1977 - 1980
ce Engineering, Research Staff Member
1975 -1976
Harvard University Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, Post-doctoral research fellow
Fire Litigation (Expert Witness) and Engineering Practice
Between 1980 and 2010, Expert has served as a consultant to private industry and government organizations for work related to combustion, fire, and explosions.
Representative fire litigation/expert witness clients include:
Available upon request.
Consulting for other institutions:
National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA
National Research Council, NRC
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, LLNL
Sandia National Laboratories
Failure Analysis/Exponent
Fire Science Application
Exxon
SENER
Research
Available upon request.
PhD Dissertation and MS Thesis Advising
Chaired 24 PhD dissertations and 51 MS Theses in UC Berkeley Department of Mechanical Engineering
Publications
Available upon request.
Honors, Scholarships, and Fellowships
ASME Fellow
Member of The Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain
Best Paper Award, Sixth Symposium of the International Association of Fire Safety Science
Pi Tau Sigma Award for Excellence in Teaching
Fellowships from Fullbright Foundation, Juan March Foundation, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and MITI, Japan, the French and Italian CNR
Editorial Advisory Board
Combustion Science and Technology
Progress in Energy and Combustion Science
Combustion and Flame (1994-2001)
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