Headlines and reports of the 2007 Minneapolis Bridge Collapse haunted airwaves for weeks as rescue teams dug through wreckage to find survivors while experts searched for the root of the deadly collapse that killed 13 people and devastated hundreds more. Companies such as Material Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: MTTG) (MATECH) have made metal fatigue and public safety the focus of their business model.
MATECH’s technology is designed to detect metal fatigue in many market sectors including aerospace, ships, cranes, power plants, mining equipment and more; however, bridge inspections remain at the forefront. The company has a team of advisors to keep it on track and lend their expertise.
Advisor Samuel I. Schwartz, president of Sam Schwartz Co., was chief engineer/first deputy commissioner for the New York City Department of Transportation from 1986 to 1990. He then switched to his current position with The Infrastructure Institute for Cooper Union College in New York City.
Campbell Laird, Ph.D. chief researcher, focuses on the strength, structure and fatigue of materials and has published more than 250 papers on the topic. He has previously been senior lecturer at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology; senior research scientist at Ford Motor Company; battelle visiting professor of electron microscopy at Ohio State; several other notable positions with the University of Vienna, University of Sorbonne in Paris and University of Pennsylvania; and is currently professor and Graduate Group chairman, Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
Recently retired from his position as deputy secretary for the Highway Administration, Gary Hoffman also has more than 30 years experience with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. He presently works as a principal engineer for the Mid-Atlantic Division and program manager for the Federal Highway Administration.
Ted Nicholas is author of more than 260 technical papers and co-author of two books on high cycle fatigue, foreign object damage, damage tolerance and structural integrity and durability. He previously served as senior scientist with the Air Force Materials Laboratory at Wright Paterson Air Force Base.
Andrew Whitney, Ph.D. is a materials fatigue expert with a focus on sensors and data acquisition; he has served three years in the U.S. Peace Corps as an English teacher at a technical university in Vladivostock, Russia. His extensive education qualifies him to lead the development of several technologies for MATECH.
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