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Mr. Robert Highfill, PE (Mechanical) Project Management
Education: A.A., Engineering, Diablo Valley College, Concord, California. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Sacramento.
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, LaSalle University, Mandelville, Louisiana.
Experience: Mr. Highfill has 27 years of experience in heavy-duty vehicle design, manufacturing and rehabilitation, including 16 years in transit vehicle procurement and contracts management. Some of his recent projects include developing bids for railcar rehabilitation, specifications for the Pittsburgh LRV, and development of safety requirements for the rehabilitation of 440 BART cars. For 8 years, Mr. Highfill was Chief Equipment Engineer for the San Francisco MUNI, managing $650 million of vehicle and signal contracts, including the rehabilitation of the Boeing LRVs, PCC cars, and diesel buses. He was project manager for the $216 million contract for Caltrans/Amerail railcars. He was Senior Project Engineer for Mack Truck Western, responsible for chassis, wheels, suspension, stress calculations, and safety regulations. He developed two new truck models and saw them through engineering, prototype development, and production.
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Mr. Richard J. Kohar, PE (Mechanical) Mechanical Subsystems
Education: B.A.Sc., (Mech.) University of Waterloo, Canada, 1977
Experience: Mr. Kohar is an engineering specialist in the area of transportation systems and equipment design, development, manufacturing and management. He has over 25 years of professional experience in the U.S. and Canada. Mr. Kohar has worked in the past on such programs as the design and development of Bi-Level commuter cars for Toronto (Project Engineer with Hawker Siddeley), and Intermediate Capacity Transit System vehicles for Toronto, Vancouver, and Detroit (Manager of Mechanical Engineering with UTDC). In May 1983, Mr. Kohar joined the New York Air Brake Company: from July 1984 to April 1987 as Manager of Design Engineering, and then until September 1989 as Manufacturing Manager of the NYAB Canadian operations in Kingston, Ontario. Since 1989, Mr. Kohar has owned and operated a product design firm, Kohar Engineering. His company has engineered and supplied production designs, including delivery, and testing of pre-production prototypes, of major rail car components and systems for trucks, brakes, couplers, and air compressors. Kohar Engineering services include computer aided design and mechanical engineering analysis such as Finite Element techniques for structures and vibration analysis; performance evaluation; testing; and preparation, and review of technical specifications. His recent projects have included designing manifolded locomotive brake and traction control systems for EMD, GE, and Adtranz, mechanical design and packaging of an advanced transit and freight electronic-pneumatic brake system, designing and building two 400 ton capacity, 200 foot long, Schnabel Car systems for the Engineered Rigging and Transportation Company, redesigning a wheelchair ramp for the disabled which was retrofitted on the Sacramento LRVs, design of a patented tilting-folding wheelchair for Advanced Mobility Systems (approved by the Canadian Government), re-engineering the Amtrak Superliner truck for domestic part sourcing, and designing a new automatic parking brake system for the New York City New Technology Train. Also since 1989, Kohar Engineering has been awarded and named on a number of transportation related patents.
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Ms. Elizabeth Eva Lewalski, PE (Mechanical) Analysis, Testing
Education: B.S. and M.S., Aeronautical Engineering, Technical University of Warsaw, Poland.
Experience: Ms. Lewalski is an engineering specialist in the area of transportation systems and equipment design and development. Her experience stretches over 30 years. In the area of mass transit systems and equipment, Ms. Lewalski has worked on such programs as the design and development of subway cars for MBTA in Boston, bi-level commuter cars for GO-Transit in Toronto, and people movers for Toronto, Vancouver, and Detroit. Since 1986, Ms. Lewalski has owned and operated a Nevada mass transit systems and equipment consulting firm, Transit Performance Engineering. Her firm worked on such projects as the procurement of LRVs for San Francisco and Saint Louis, rapid transit cars for San Francisco and Los Angeles, commuter cars for LIRR, NICTD, and others. She was included in the 1995 edition of Marquis' Who's Who in America in Science and Engineering.
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Dr. Agnes Muszynska, Vibrations and Acoustics
Education: B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Warsaw. Ph.D., Polish Academy of Sciences.
Dr Muszynska was awarded the degree of Professor of Technical Sciences in 1988. She is fluent in Polish, English, Russian, and French. In February 2000, Dr. Muszynska started a consulting firm, A.M. Consulting. Between October 2000 and March 2001, she worked on a contract at the Institute of Robotics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.
During the years 1981-1999, Dr. Muszynska worked as a Senior Research Scientist and Research Manager at Bently Nevada Corporation. She is currently a member of the ASME Structures & Dynamics Committee and in 1994 received the prestigious grade of Fellow in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. See also Dr. Muszynska's website at http://amconsulting.intellibit.com
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Mr. Surjit S. Madan, Project Management, Railcar Electrical Engineering
Mr. Madan, an electrical engineer (honors), is D&D Engineering's associate and our representative in the East Asia engineering consultant market. In January 2001, he started MTSe, a Technical Consultancy Company on Mass Transit Systems, and he is Chief Executive of this company. MTSe is located in Bhopal, India.
From 1970 to the end of 2000, he worked for Bharat Heavy Electrics Limited (BHEL), assuming positions of Design Engineer, Senior Design Manager, Project Manager for establishing the Center for Electric Transportation (CET) in Bhopal, Head of Locomotive Engineering, Head of the Center for Electric Transportation and Transportation New Products, and the Head of Control Equipment Engineering and Transportation System Engineering at the Bhopal unit of BHEL's transit development centers.
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Mr. James Shook, BSID, IDSA Industrial Design
Education: B.S., Industrial Design, California State University, San Jose, California.
Experience: Mr. Shook is a leading industrial designer in the United States, specializing in the design of public transit vehicles. His design portfolio includes such railcars as the Toronto bi-level commuter car (Excellence of Design award), the Toronto subway H5 car, the Mexican National Railroad 1st and 2nd class coaches, the Boston Blue and Orange line subway cars and the Santa Clara Light Rail Vehicle. In addition, Mr. Shook prepared several proposals for interior and exterior designs, for such vehicles as the Illinois Central bi-level, self-propelled commuter car; the Mexico City commuter car; and the Monorail for the Transportation Group, Inc., Florida (later considered for Houston, Texas). Mr. Shook has received a number of international design awards, including one from Japan and Germany.
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Mr. Roy Smith, PE Truck and Vehicle Suspension
Education:B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK; M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada.
Experience: Mr. Smith is the leading specialist in the area of truck and vehicle suspension, vehicle dynamics, and ride quality. Presently, his company, Resco Engineering, designs and builds a range of rail vehicle products including retrofit packages to upgrade existing designs and complete new trucks. In the past, as Chief Engineer for Advanced Trucks for Urban Transportation Development Corporation, Mr. Smith was responsible for the development of steerable truck design for London Transport's Central Line, Toronto Transit Commission subway cars, and a version for a high-speed commuter car. Mr. Smith is the author of 23 patents and is listed in Who's Who in Mechanical Engineering. He has published over 50 papers and is a noted speaker at seminars.
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