EDUCATION&TRAINING

Roadmaster Driver’s School • San Antonio, TX

• Commercial Truck Driver’s Training Course (160 Hours) General knowledge
  
  
  • Air Brakes
  • Combination Vehicles
  • Pre-trip Inspection
  • Driver Hours of Service
  • Driver Log Book
  • Tank Vehicle
  • Double/Triple Trailer
  • Driver Qualification/Disqualification
  • Driver Wellness
  • Whistle Blower Protection

Engineering Dynamics Corporation

• 2009 HVE Forum, Orlando, FL (35 Hours)
  
  
  • Advanced HVE-2D
  • Heavy Vehicle Brake Simulation in EDSMAC4
  • EDSMAC4 Model Overview
  • DyMESH Collision Algorithm
  • Building a Vehicle for HVE & HVE-2D

Collision Safety Institute • Rio Hondo Community College, Whittier, CA

• Crash Data Retrieval System Operator Training Series (40 Hours)
  
  
  • What’s a “CDR”?
  • Process Overview
  • System overview
  • The mechanics of a download
  • Data collection exercise
  • Legal considerations
  • Terms and conventions
  • The airbag control algorithm
  • Reading a CDR report for a GM vehicle
  • Reading a CDR report for a Ford Vehicle
  • Admissibility issues summary

Society of Automotive Engineers • Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI.

• Occupant and Vehicle Kinematics in Rollovers (16 Hours)
  
  
  • Overview of Field Rollover Crashes
  • Occupant Biomechanics and Occupant
  • Maneuvers Leading to a Rollover
  • Laboratory Tests and Vehicle Data
  • Field Relevancy of Laboratory Tests
  • Field conditions and laboratory Conditions
  • Electronic and Sensing
  • Rollover Safety Systems
  • Rollover Modeling

PDH CENTER • Verifact Corporation, San Antonio, Texas

• Understanding the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devises (MUTCD) Part I & II
  
  
  • Part 1. General
  • Part 2. Signs
  • Part 3. Markings
  • Part 4. Highway Traffic Signals
  • Part 5. Traffic Control Devices for Low-Volume Roads
  • Part 6. Temporary Traffic Control

Southern Polytechnic State University

• The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Root Cause Analysis (8 Hours)

DuPont Plastics

• Lancer Corporation, San Antonio, Texas
  • Designing Plastic parts, Processing plastic parts (12 Hours)

Minnesota Rubber

• Lancer Corporation, San Antonio, Texas
  • Designing Rubber Parts (8 Hours)

Ticona Plastics

• Lancer Corporation, San Antonio, Texas
  • Designing Plastic parts (8 Hours)

Texas A&M University •  Riverside Campus, Houston, Texas

• Commercial Vehicle Inspection and Accident Investigation (40 Hours)
  • Air Brake Systems
  • Driver Log Book
  • Vehicle Inspection Routine
  • Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR)
  • Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Requirements
  • Vehicle Rollover Dynamics
  • Vehicle Braking Dynamics
  • Full Scale Vehicle Brake Testing

Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine • Chicago, Illinois

• Biomechanics of Impact Trauma (16 Hours)
  • Occupant Kinematics
  • Crash Severity Assessment
  • Injury Severity and Impairment Assessment
  • Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards
  • Anatomy of the Human Body
  • Injury Types and Mechanisms
    • Brain and Skull
    • Thorax
    • Abdomen
    • Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar Spine
    • Pelvis & Extremities
  • Seat Belt Systems
  • Injuries to Restrained Children
  • Air Bag Performance and Effectiveness
  • Other Road Users: Pedestrians and Motorcyclists
  • Benefits and Limitations of Experimental Researchn

The University of Texas San Antonio • San Antonio, Texas

• Finite Element Applications in Engineering Elasticity (One Semester)

Dale Carnegie and Associates, Inc., • San Antonio, Texas

• The Dale Carnegie Course

University of Texas San Antonio • San Antonio, Texas

• General Studies (One Semester)
  • Business Law
  • Managerial Accounting

Lee S. Cole and Associates • Arlington, Texas

• Investigation of Vehicle Fires (24 Hours)
  • Mechanics of fire
  • Fire Origin
  • Mechanical systems
  • Electrical Systems
  • Arson
  • Combustion Temperatures, Melting Points

Engineering Dynamics Corporation • Houston, Texas s

• Computer Aided Accident Reconstruction with EDCRASH (40 Hours)
  • Collision Deformation Classification and Direction of Force Classification
  • Vehicle Damage Measurement
  • Calculation Procedures
  • Common Velocity, Separation Velocity checks
  • Uses of Linear Momentum
  • Trajectory Simulation

University of North Florida, Institute of Police Technology & Management • Jacksonville, FL

• Advanced Traffic Accident Investigation (80 Hours)
  • Levels of Traffic Accident Investigation
  • Perspective Grid Photogrammetric Analysis
  • Intersection Sight Distances
  • Road Hazard Analysis
  • Skidmark Analysis
  • Lamp Examination
  • Vehicle Tires: Examination, Handling, Characteristics, Stability
  • Vehicle Inspection and Damage Documentation
  • Investigative Photography
  • Physics Relative to Accident Reconstruction and Vehicle Dynamics

Iowa State University • Ames, Iowa

• Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering, (BSME)

College of Lake County •  Grayslake, Illinois

• Automotive Technology, (Three Semesters)
  • Automotive Electrical Systems
  • Engine/Transmission/Driveline Diagnosis and Rebuilding Carriage Return Braking and Alignment