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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)

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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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