Disk Brake Design Case Study Implementation Method and Student Survey Results

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(Waterloo). Oscar joined Waterloo following a 23 year career in research, engineering and management practice in industry and government. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of engineering design methodologies, design practice, engineering education and high performance, lightweight, composite materials design. Oscar is passionate about teaching engineering and, as part of his current role, maintains strong industry-university relations and a commitment to remain close to engineering design and management practice. Before joining Waterloo, Oscar held the position of Sr. Program Manager at L-3 Communications Wescam (L-3 Wescam), a manufacturer of airborne surveillance systems for public safety, security and defense markets. Oscar had been employed at L-3 Wescam for 11 years, where he led multidisciplinary teams toward the successful development and commercialization of several products to various markets. He was responsible for L-3 Wescam's largest defense programs. Oscar worked at the Canadian Forces Department of National Defense failure analysis lab, where he was the Canadian Project Officer for an international program on F/A-18 bonded repair, and prior to that, a Research Engineer at the Canadian Space Agency. Oscar designed and qualified space flight hardware for a space experiment for Space Shuttle Flight STS-52 in 1993. Earlier in his career Oscar led the design and development of products employing composite materials at Owens Corning Canada and contributed to the development of novel production machinery for the fottwear industry with Bata Engineering. Oscar earned a Master of Applied Science degree in Mechanical Engineering specializing in lightweight composite material structures from the University of Waterloo, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada). He became a licensed professional engineer in 1986. Oscar lives in Guelph, Ontario, Canada with his wife Dianne, and they are blessed with three (3) wonderful sons. Harry Tempelman, Hitachi Construction Truck Mfg Ltd. Harry Tempelman is a mechanical engineer who has 25 years of design experience in Aerospace and off-highway vehicles. Prior to joining Hitachi, he was the president of TDT Inc., a consulting company specialized in design, stress analysis, material selection, and manufacturing solutions. He's been with Hitachi Trucks since 2005 as the senior manager of the Technical Analysis Group. The group is currently working on some projects related to truck dynamics, engineering optimization, fatigue analysis, frame/body design, and material selection.