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January
2012 Meeting
Time: 5:30pm, 1/18/2012, Wednesday
Michael's at Shoreline
2960 Shoreline Boulevard
Mountain View
(650) 962-1014 (for directions)
SPEAKER:
A Collection of Interesting
Materials Legal Cases
Robert N. Anderson, Ph.D., P.E., RNA Consulting, Inc.
A Materials Engineer can become a testifying expert in unusual materials
failure cases. Dr. Anderson will describe a number of assignments and how he
addressed the scientific aspects of the cases.
1. The airplane that puts the pilot to sleep.
2. The automobile accident that blamed the wrong person.
3. Who is at fault in a big corrosion case?
4. The Wolfhouse fire analysis.
5. Dr. Anderson's first legal case ever - the P51-D crash
BIOGRAPHY:
Robert N. (Bob) Anderson, Ph.D., P.E., is President of RNA
Consulting, Inc., and focuses on forensic materials and metallurgical
engineering. He has been involved in expert witness work for more than 30
years, analyzing and testifying in a variety of legal cases that involve some
aspect of materials failure. Dr. Anderson is an Emeritus Professor of Materials
Engineering, San Jose State University, and previously was on the faculty at
Stanford University.
Dr. Anderson, who also holds an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley,
was for ten years a civilian research scientist for the US Navy at the Navy
Radiological Defense Laboratory, San Francisco, and received a Navy fellowship
to pursue his Ph.D. from Stanford University, School of Earth Science, where he
graduated with a specialty in Materials Thermodynamics.
In his community of Los Altos Hills, he is immediate past president and on the
board of the Purissima Hills Water District (PHWD),
chair of the town's Water Conservation Committee, and serves on the board of
the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency (BAWSCA). He also is involved
in disaster preparedness work, and is a member of the town's Emergency
Communications (amateur radio) Committee, and CERT team. Contact SAMPE for Bob
Anderson’s contact info.
DINNER
5:30 pm Social/Networking.
......... ..6:00 pm Dinner...... ......... ..7:00 pm
Speaker
Dinner Cost: SAMPE Members $20........ Students $10......... Guests $25
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