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COMPANY PROFILE: Associates
Dr. Jerry M. Anderson
While at Tech, he taught undergraduate courses in statics, dynamics, strength of materials, vibrations, and materials science. He taught graduate courses in elasticity, plasticity, advanced strength of materials, and fracture mechanics. Several of these courses were developed by him as first-time offerings at Georgia Tech. He successfully directed the work of three PhD and six MS students. At Lockheed, he developed and implemented high-order cracked finite elements (mode I, mode II, isotropic, and anisotropic) required to predict crack growth and estimate residual strength of high-strength aluminum and composite-laminate structural components in the C-130, C-141, and C-5 aircraft. He estimated the stress relaxation at cold-worked fastener holes and developed a fastener-hole element, avoiding the need for local mesh refinement associated with conventional representation. Working as a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Anderson performed essential elastic-plastic analyses supporting AT&T's 710 and 711 insulation-displacing copper connectors, as well as their biconic fiber-optic connector and multi-fiber array splice. He designed and patented a unique molded alignment sleeve for fiber-optic ferrules. More than ten million of these sleeves are in service today. As a Technical Manager at Bell Labs, Anderson led 10-20 engineering direct reports in the design and development of fiber-optic apparatus. Highlights include successful product introduction of: the Tactical Fiber-Optic Cable Assembly - the optical interconnection basis of the PATRIOT missile system; the Universal Build-Out Attenuator System - the most flexible and widely used attenuator in fiber-optics; and the LC connector - the most popular small-form-factor fiber-optic connector in the world today. Jerry may be contacted through PELabs.
Over an extended period of time I have developed a TA strategy for plastics problem solving that is based on probing a polymer's morphology and then attempting to relate these morphological features to failure modes that can often be eliminated through processing modifications. This kind of analysis has been applied successfully in my TA laboratory to a large number of plastics, including: benchmarking unknown plastic products, distortion of parts under service conditions, cut-through failures in jacketing of an optoelectronic module, patented device fabrication including network forming materials and recently a new method employing TGA to measure the permeability of water through a polymer membrane. When FMA activities are synergistic with my past research programs, a relatively small effort can often provide great returns in direct cost savings, reduced product returns, avoided liability and greater customer satisfaction. My TA lab includes several DSCs that enable me to scan temperatures from —150 to about 700°C and determine a plastic's specific heat (one unit is equipped for modulated temperature experiments), two TGAs* that are able to measure a material's mass from room temperature to either 1000 or 1500°C, a TMA for dimensional changes and a DMA unit for static or dynamic moduli measurements. If you have need of our thermoanalytical expertise please give us a call. *Life-time estimates can be made with these tools. Harvey E. Bair began his TA career in 1962 as a research training fellow at General Electric Research Laboratory and was a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ for 36 years. Currently he is a technical consultant. Mr. Bair has received several awards for his contributions to the plastics industry including the 2000 SPE International Award. Harvey may be contacted through PELabs.
Jerry has over 25 years of business and technical leadership experience with large and small companies. He has Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tennessee and Purdue University, respectively. He has worked as a Product Development Engineer, Technical Manager, and Director of Research & Development at Bell Labs, Lucent and Avaya. Most recently, Jerry was Director of Program Management & Quality at the Systems Division of Bandwidth9, an optical startup company in Duluth, Georgia. He has also been an Adjunct Professor at Gwinnett Technical Institute in Lawrenceville, Georgia. He is a member of the Project Management Institute, the American Society for Quality, and the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce. Jerry's experience includes:
Contact David R. Hurst at (ph) 706-387-7495 or (fax) 706-387-7496.
Wilton may be contacted through PELabs.
In the area of polymer characterization, Steve has developed several new techniques for process/structure/property relationships. He has used confocal and polarized Raman microspectroscopy to resolve industrially important processing limitations. He has developed laser scanning confocal fluorescence spectroscopy for measuring diffusion through polymers. In addition, he has developed new instruments for measuring friction in highly deformable materials. In the area of surface modification, Steve has developed new methods for designing the surface properties of polymers using ultra-thin coatings that are only a few nanometers thick. He has used this approach to alter the friction, surface charge, surface tension, and biological interactions. Add-on levels are typically less than 0.1 wt %. Steve may be contacted through PELabs.
He has designed for Intel, Motorola, Hitachi, Microchip, and other processors, and would be happy to discuss your next "smart machine" project. Contact him by telephone: 404.377.2577 or electronic mail:
john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu.
He also built the first optical fiber ribbon machine and turned out hundreds of the fiber ribbons for cable development work. Further, he described the use of laser scattering to measure the outside diameter of optical fibers while they were being drawn. The optical laboratory is well equipped to perform a variety of measurements of thickness variations on metals, glasses and plastics with an accuracy of about 0.3 micron, using white light interferometry. Jeff may be contacted through PELabs.
Peter may be contacted through PELabs.
WhiteLight Design may be contacted at 770-277-7097 or on the web at www.whitelightdesign.com.
He has been involved in a variety of manufacturing areas including Statistical Process Control (SPC), chemical process control and quality control labs. This includes developing procedures for control of various chemical processes such as copper etching and plating for single and multilayer PWBs. He managed the process control and diagnostic labs at AT&Ts PWB facility working to develop improved analytical and diagnostic tools for the PWB industry. He received a Bachelors Degree andt the University of Florida, MS from the University of Rochester and Ph. D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Georgia. Dr. Wight may be contacted throught PELabs.
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