Mechanical & Systems Engineering

Design and development of industrial equipment, products, instruments, mechanisms, structures, fixtures, tooling, and other specialized apparatus.

Broad experience including: Products, Semiconductor, fiber optics and disk drive manufacturing equipment. Medical products and equipment, industrial x-ray equipment. Aerospace, wind tunnel, and mobile equipment. Assembly, testing and handling machinery. Lifting and positioning equipment. Computers and desktop products. Antennas, pumps, and road construction equipment.

MECHANICAL DESIGN Robust, refined, tolerance tolerant, kinematic design. Precision positioning and alignment. Miniaturization. Design for clean room, aseptic, vacuum, shock and vibration, and other severe environments. Aerospace and ground vehicles. Design to specifications: UL, CE, SEMI, FDA, Telcordia, NASA, MIL-STD, etc.

ELECTRONICS PACKAGING Chip level to rack mounted. Professional audio and video equipment. Semiconductor equipment. PCB, flex circuits, cabling, hybrid circuits mechanical design. Connector troubleshooting. Laptop keyboards. Complex sheetmetal assemblies.

TESTING & INSTRUMENTATION Test requirements and specifications. Test setups and fixtures. Data acquisition system configuration.

MANUFACTURING Prototypes and pilot runs. Design for manufacturability, assembly, maintenance, and cost. Injection molded plastic, sheetmetal, casting, CNC machining, welding, extrusion, adhesive bonding, quartz fabrication. Manufacturing documentation, procedures, instructions. Drawing checking.

PATENT & LITIGATION CONSULTING Product liability, patent infringement, documents distillation.

BSME, University of Houston. MSME, Stanford University. California P.E. Registration. Two U. S. Patents.