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Biographies
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Hales CV (pdf)
Hales Bio (pdf)
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Crispin Hales has 40 years of experience in engineering design, principally in industry but also including research and teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. For the past twenty years he has been consulting in failure analysis, engineering design, boiler explosions, safety of mechanical systems and accident reconstruction within the U.S and internationally. He joined Triodyne Inc. in 1989 and then in 2004 established Hales & Gooch Ltd. with Dr. Shayne Gooch in New Zealand, to focus more specifically on design issues. Recently he has been involved with a number of large investigations concerning the engineering design process and has helped to introduce improved approaches to engineering design within several manufacturing companies. In association with Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and Canterbury University in New Zealand, he has contributed towards more effective design teaching and professional training for young engineers.
Prior to undertaking research on the management of engineering design, Dr. Hales spent six years at IIT Research Institute in Chicago designing and constructing a wide variety of research equipment. He established and managed a specialized design team that developed and built numerous high-pressure testing systems for the evaluation of materials under extreme temperature and pressure conditions. Projects included a $3 million refractory test facility for the Department of Energy and a multi-wall, high-pressure vessel system for NASA to creep-test six different super-alloys simultaneously in a hydrogen environment.
Dr. Hales holds a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Canterbury University in New Zealand, a Masters Degree in Engineering Design from Loughborough University in England and a Ph.D. in Engineering Design from Cambridge University in England. He is registered professionally as a Chartered Engineer in the U.K. and is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Dr. Hales is also a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and served as Chair of the Design Theory and Methodology Committee (1992-1994), as an Executive Committee member of the Design Engineering Division (1994-2000) and as Chair of the DED (1999-2000). In 2002 he received the Robert E. Abbott Award for two decades of service to the ASME Design Engineering Division. Dr. Hales has written many papers and technical reports in the field of engineering design and continues an active involvement in engineering design research internationally. He has also been a keynote speaker at conferences and a presenter at seminars and workshops on forensic engineering. He is author of the book Managing Engineering Design (1st ed: Hales 1993; 2nd ed: Hales & Gooch, 2004) and has written chapters in several other books covering various aspects of the engineering design process.
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Gooch CV (pdf)
Gooch Bio (pdf)
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Shayne Gooch has 22 years engineering experience ranging from specialist professional activities to applied industry practice. He is a Senior Lecturer at Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand and a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne. Dr. Gooch has taught both postgraduate and senior year undergraduate engineering design for the past six years.
Dr. Gooch has a Ph.D. and Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Canterbury University and a New Zealand Certificate in Engineering from Christchurch Polytechnic in New Zealand.
Dr. Gooch's professional engineering experience includes, but is not limited to: accident investigations involving humans and machinery; failure and loss investigations involving technical systems; advanced mechanics of machines research; heavy rotating machine design; materials handling; waste water treatment; consumer product design; vehicle dynamics; and design of steel structures.
Dr. Gooch is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He is the current Chair of the Information Management Committee for the Design Engineering Division and he is a member of the ASME International Activities Committee. Dr. Gooch is a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Engineering Design (Taylor & Francis, London, UK) and active in peer review of international journal and conference papers in the areas of engineering design and mechanical vibrations. Dr. Gooch is co-author of the book Managing Engineering Design (2nd ed: Hales & Gooch, 2004). He has authored many papers on engineering design, machine vibrations and engineering education.
Dr. Gooch began his engineering career at the New Zealand Electricity Department where he completed an apprenticeship and later his Advanced Trade Certificate as a Fitter, Turner and Machinist. Dr. Gooch has significant practical experience in the maintenance of heavy rotating machinery (e.g. hydro power turbines and synchronous condensers), and maintenance of high voltage switchyard equipment and transmission lines. Dr. Gooch’s familiarity with industrial safety procedures, including his operational experience in the electricity sector, is invaluable in providing commonsense solutions to workplace health and safety issues.
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