Currently with Knott Laboratory, Dr. David is consulting in the areas of vehicular accident reconstruction, mechanical engineering, machine safety (including forklifts, skid steers, industrial and construction equipment), and patent and trade secret issues.  Dr. David has tutored a number of engineering and Statistic classes including Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, Stress Analysis, System Dynamics, Machine Design, Dynamics, Strength of Material, Statics and Quality improvement for engineering while attending Brigham Young University and tutored mathematical classes including Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus, Linear Algebra and Ordinary Differential Equation while attending Dixie State College. This student interaction helped him expand his interpersonal and communication skills as well as increase his understanding of engineering principles. He has enjoyed the education he received as an Engineer and appreciates what technology does to improve the quality of life. While a research assistant for BYU Para-Cad Lab, Dr. David developed and wrote over 50 tutorials to synthesize theoretical engineering concepts to applied finite element analysis and CAD modeling in the discipline of Machine Design and Vibrations. The software used for those tutorials includes Hypermesh, Nastran, Adams’ view, Ansys, and Unigraphics (Modeling and Analysis included). For his Senior Capstone Project – a project sponsored by HP-Corvallis – he worked with a team of 6 Mechanical Engineer and Manufacturing students to design a fixture method to align and hold two micro-displays and a dichroic mirror in precise alignment (all 6 degrees of freedom). He was a team leader in providing functional specification documentation and weekly progress reports to meet weekly schedules. He gave formal presentations to 50-100 people, justifying the final design concept chosen for HP-Corvallis.

Dr. David conducts and directs investigations of vehicular accidents, which include automobiles, tractor-trailers, buses, motorcycles, bicycles, and pedestrians.  He also consults on industrial accidents and machinery failures and safety.  Dr. David completed his Master’s thesis’ research in the field of accident reconstruction (A Generalized Two-Dimensional Model to Reconstruct the Impact Phase in Automobile Collisions). Dr. David has sufficient determination, patience and intellectual capabilities to be a successful engineer.

Dr. David has published papers in the area of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems), specifically simulation and testing of micro molecule motion during nanoinjection (extensive Matlab programming) and has patent pending. He was the recipient of a graduate research fellowship award and an undergraduate scholarship recipient from Brigham Young University. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi – a National Engineering Honor Society – and has received invitations for Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society and Golden Key National Honor Society.

Dr. David’s pioneering master degree thesis: “A General Two Dimensional Model To Reconstruct The Impact Phase In Automobile Collisions.” Discuss and analyze relationship between two modeling techniques used to reconstruct the impact phase of the collision:  The first technique relying exclusively on impulse-momentum theory coupled with friction and restitution, while the second method combines impulse momentum with relationship between crash geometry and energy loss.