CRASHEX, a logical development of NHTSA-funded approaches to automotive collision analysis, is grounded in classical Newtonian physics as taught in all colleges of engineering such as, in the present instance, Cornell University, and as applied in practice to the automobile at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory under W. F Milliken (see his monumental biography, Equations of Motion, Bentley, 2006) (p. 535-581) (with the present author mentioned or shown on pages 475, 496, 538, 541, 550, 572, 574, and 633).

The CRASH and SMAC programs were developed later, in a different department of Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, under Raymond McHenry; however, the first commercial license to SMAC was issued in 1974 to the present author. Main-frame usage (with boxes of cards) was at that time mandatory; later, using the CRASH approach and equations both as published and in FORTRAN, the present author developed CRASHEX, a version of CRASH suitable for then-current handheld and desktop computers. An update of this DOS version to a more user-friendly VisualBasic version was completed in 2002.

BME—Cornell, 1951—Major in Machine Design.
MS—Cornell, 1954—Major in Dynamics.
Further related courses—Universities of Buffalo, Villanova, Drexel, Penn State.
Seminars—Accident Reconstruction, Fluid Contamination, Biomechanics (SAE), Product Liability and the Engineer (SAE), Motor Vehicle Accident Reconstruction (SAE), Vehicle Dynamics Before and After a Collision (SAE).
Registered Professional Engineer—Pennsylvania, 1975.

Agricultural machine design and test—New Holland Machine Company.
Automobile research—Calspan Transportation Research Department—for General Motors, all major tire companies and the National Highway Safety Council.
Aerospace R&D—Bell, Vertol, GE.

Principal investigator—in injury-causing incidents.
Expert witness—in mechanical design and dynamics.
Consultant to GM as "a recognized expert in the field of automotive engineering."
Consultant to GE in development of automotive safety standards.
Author and vendor—software for accident reconstruction.
Course originator — ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION USING CONSERVATION
OF ENERGY AND MOMENTUM—A quarterly Seminar of the Soc of Automotive Engrs.

Institution of Mechanical Engineers—1956.
American Institute of Electrical Engineers—1962.
United States Patents—1969, 1973; and foreign patents.
Transportation Research Board—National Research Council—1987.
Forensic Crash Analysis, in AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING AND LITIGATION, Vol III, 1990
Canadian Multidisciplinary Road Safety Conference—1991
Society of Automotive Engineers—1967, 1987, 1990, 1993, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2007.
FORENSIC ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION: MOTOR VEHICLES, Chapter 8, Michie, 1995
Accident Reconstruction Papers 96SAF079 & 80, ISATA International Symposium, 1996

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