MATERIALS SCIENCE. With technical training in metallurgy, Expert became a specialist in the utilization of materials science and technology in a cross-disciplinary way. Thus, new materials and new fabrication techniques he introduced often solved electronic component or medical device problems as well as problems in other industries.

MAGNETICS. Expert led development of the world's first commercially available rare earth (samarium cobalt) magnet. He is skilled in permanent magnet properties and methods of employing them. He knows vendors and networks with field design specialists.

HEAT TRANSFER. Expert applies knowledge of convection, conduction, radiation, microwave, and dielectric heating to a wide variety of applications in injecting or extracting heat in many industries. Knowledge of material properties, thermodynamics, and microwave techniques are Expert's specialties. He maintains that economic considerations are always a major factor in the selection of approaches to a problem.

VACUUM TECHNOLOGY; VACUUM EQUIPMENT. Expert has extensive experience in the development and fabrication of vacuum equipment and devices. His specialties in this area include metal-to-glass or ceramic seals, degassing, electron emission, and secondary emission. He is also familiar with vacuum tubes at all powers and frequencies.

TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION PROCESS; TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT. Much of Expert's career has been devoted to the management of technical innovation in industry. He wrote a book for the American Management Association on how to accomplish profitable innovation and how to do it efficiently.

Expert is a Fellow and former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the International Microwave Power Institute. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of its magazine, "The Journal of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic Energy."

He has received three IR 100 awards for work in heat transfer, samarium cobalt magnets, and a thermostating browning surface for microwave utensils.

Expert has experience locating vendors of: Magnets, Sputtered films, and Metal processing equipment.

He has access to the following resources: Print materials and Personal contacts.