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Qualifications
Background
BS
Mechanical Engineering,
Summa
Cum Laude
Texas A&M University 1979
Licensed
Professional Engineer, Texas
Licensed Professional Engineer, Florida
Licensed Professional Engineer, North
Carolina
Licensed Professional Engineer, South
Carolina
Member
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Treasurer ASM-International
John
E. Scates, P.E., Carrollton, TX. 6/97-present
President/Owner
Product Failure Analysis
Mechanical
failure analysis (in excess of 2500 events)
Relating to water loss, including:
- Filters,
Water Hoses, Water Heaters and related components.
- Appliances
(dishwashers, water softeners, clothes washers, refrigerators / ice
machines).
Failure analysis
of other misc. products, including vehicles and small fires.
Accident Investigations
- Accident
investigations relating to doors, including automatic pedestrian
doors, high speed vehicle doors, fire doors, and overhead doors.
Design
- 3
patents.
- Prior
proprietary product design and development for the overhead door
industry including sectional doors, rolling steel doors, truck doors
and door operators.
- Ongoing
participation in the door industry for Code and Standards development.
- Member
of STP committee that maintains and updates UL 325.
- Engineering
consulting relating to testing and certification of
hurricane-resistant door products.
Windsor
Door, Little Rock, Arkansas. 5/93-5/97
Manager of Research and Development
- Provided
engineering expertise and testimony in litigation issues.
- Active
in the technical committees of DASMA.
- Familiarity
with Standard Building Code, Florida Building Code, NFPA 80, NFPA 105,
and ASCE 7 windloading and fire codes.
- Familiarity
with UL-325 relating to garage door opener safety.
- Fire
door systems.
- Co-development
a photocell system for garage door openers.
- Expertise
in sheet metal products.
- Experienced
in finite-element analysis.
- Proficient
with Pro/Engineer software.
Overhead
Door R&D/Engineering, Dallas, TX. 2/85-5/93
Manager of Structures
- Provided
engineering expertise and testimony in litigation issues.
- Failure
mode analysis on new products.
- Custom
product certifications for windload and oversize requirements.
- Co-authored
the corporate software for spring calculations.
- Expert
in track and counterbalance systems.
- Lesser
involvement with dock levelers, truck doors, high-speed rollup doors,
and electric operators.
Drilco
Industrial, Div. of SII, Midland, TX. 8/81-1/85
Product engineer
- Design
and manufacture of drilling equipment for mining and other
non-oilfield applications.
- Developed
both "big hole" and "raise drill" bits ranging in
diameters from five to twelve feet.
- Experience
in large weldments, threaded connections, non-destructive ultrasonic
inspection, machining operations and heat treatment.
- Briefly
served as metallurgist at the on-site heat treating/carburizing
facility.
John
Deere Plow and Planter Works, Moline IL. 1/80-8/81
Product engineer
Contributed
to the development of the largest planter built by John Deere including:
- Hydraulic
operation and leveling.
- Stress
measurement and reduction using strain gages, finite element and
dynamic motion analysis.
Seminars / Short Courses completed
- Advanced
Principles of Fire Dynamics (24 hours, 2016)
- America
Invents Act: A New Patent System (ASME NTX, 2012)
- Non-Linear
FEA: Solving Real World Problems with Abaqus
FEA (ASME 7/2012)
- Creep
Failure of Plastics by Jeffrey Jansen (SPE 1/2012)
- Fatigue
of Plastics by Jeffrey Jansen (SPE 5/2011)
- Metallurgy
for the non-Metallurgist (30 hours, 2011)
- Windload
Design Criteria II (4 hours, 2011)
- Concrete
anchors and ACI 318 (Simpson Strong-Tie 6/2011)
- Component
Failure Analysis: Methodology, Mechanisms, and Case Studies (4/2010)
- Environmental
Stress Cracking and Other Solvent Effects (11/2009)
- Finding
and Preventing Product Failures (in plastics) (SPE 4/2003)
- Plastics
Fracture Analysis (SPE 4/2002)
- Plastics
Failure Analysis (SPE 4/2002)
- Failure
Analysis of Plastic Products by Stress Analysis Methods (SPE
4/2002)
- AAADM Certified
Inspector for automatic pedestrian doors. (AAADM 10/2001)
- AAADM
Inspector training: Re-take course for updates. Audit only (1/2007)
- Design &
Behavior of Bolted Joints (ASME)
- Fracture Mechanics
Approach to Life Prediction (ASME)
- Uniform
Plumbing Code (NTT Inc)
- Rock
Mechanics (related to drilling and tunneling) (Univ. of Wisconsin)
- Pro/E
basic and sheetmetal (Parametric Technologies)
- Non-destructive
Ultrasonic Inspection (Drilco)
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