Vita for Robert N. Anderson, Ph.D., P.E.
President, RNA Consulting, Inc.
Name: Robert Neil Anderson, Ph.D., P.E., P.I.
President, RNA
Consulting, Inc.
Specializing in forensic materials engineering and sciences
Consulting,
expert witness in materials failures, accident analysis
Address:
Office: 650-949-1092 Fax:
650.949.5641 Cell/VM: 650-464-1620
Education: Ph.D., Metallurgy,
M.S., Chemical Engineering, Minor Petroleum Engineering, U.C. Berkeley
Research Assistant
B.S., Chemical Engineering, U.C. Berkeley
B.S., Chemistry,
Research
Assistant
Post Doctoral Research Associate in Metallurgy:
Patents in
high temperature reprocessing of nuclear fuels, nuclear reactor, and extraction
of reactive metals from their ores.
Licenses: Registered Metallurgical
Engineer,
Registered Nuclear Engineer,
Private
Investigators License, CA No. 14033
Consultant and Expert
Witness:
More than 20 years
experience in forensic materials and metallurgical consulting in accident
analyses, industrial materials applications, and design failures. Consultant to
legal firms, including plaintiff and defendant, and court appointed expert.
Extensive deposition and courtroom experience in
Academic Positions:
Current: SJSU, Emeritus Professor, Department of
Materials Engineering
SJSU,
Department Chair, Professor
Industrial Positions:
Operations
Research Analyst, Research Engineer
Arabian American Oil Company,
Prior Consulting,
Industrial:
FMC, accident simulation. EPRI, nuclear reprocessing. SRI, materials research.
IBM, intellectual
property. Memorex,
hard disk technology.
Prior Consulting,
Government:
Brookhaven National Lab
Executive Office of the President of the
Environmental Quality; Office of Science and
Technology Policy
Smithsonian
Institute,
Center
for Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of
Consultant in the degradation of Taj Mahal.
Professional Associations:
Offices
Current Chairman (2004-2005) of the
Engineering Sciences Section.
The Society of Forensic
Engineers and Scientists (SFES):
Founding member, 1981.Past President, 1990-1996;
Past Secretary/Treasurer.
American Institute of
Metallurgical Engineers:
Past
Chairman of
Past
Chairman of the Engineering Sciences Section.
American Nuclear
Society: Past Student Affairs Chairman.
Other Professional Affiliations:
International Association of
Arson Investigators
National Society for
Professional Engineers
National Associate of
Corrosion Engineers
Society of Plastics
Engineers
Society for the Advancement
of Material and Process Engineering
Society of Automotive
Engineers
Society of Wood Science and
Technology
American Society for Metals
American Chemical Society
American Institute of
Chemical Engineering
American Ceramic Society
American Welding Society
American Institute of
Archaeology
The Forensic
The Materials Research
Society
Professional Honor
Organizations: Alpha Chi Sigma, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi
Special Interests:
Archeo-materials: Developed university
courses. Presented research on
archeological investigation and materials study.
Firearms and arson investigation:
Published professional papers.
Determine cause of fires through analysis
of electrical arc residues,
using Auger spectroscopy.
1996 Conference chairman at International
Association of Forensic Sciences in
High
temperature study and consultant on nuclear fuels.
Frequent speaker:
·
Rotary Clubs
International chapters on forensic science
and its relationship to
business and industrial materials conditions.
·
High schools and
elementary schools on the profession of forensic engineering and sciences.