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| Our People |
The Management & Advisors
The management team, led by Robert M. Bernstein, President, CEO and Chairman of the Board since 1988, is a group of experienced executives, engineers and consultants with specific backgrounds in transportation, engineering and technology. In addition, renowned experts in infrastructure, bridge design and construction, multi-disciplinary endeavors, and chief researcher for EFS.
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Management
Robert M. Bernstein
CEO and Chairman
Marybeth Miceli
Chief Operating Officer
Brent M. Phares,
Ph.D., P.E.
Chief Engineer
William I. Berks
Project Manager
Monty Moshier, Ph.D.
Chief Technologist
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Advisors
Samuel I. Schwartz,
P.E.
Campbell Laird, Ph.D.
Gary
Hoffman, P.E.
Ted
Nicholas, Ph.D.
Andrew
Whitney, Ph.D.
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| Bob Bernstein, President, CEO and Chairman of the Board, |
| received a Bachelor of Science degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1956. In 1985, he formed a research and development partnership for Tensiodyne Corp., MATECH's predecessor, funding approximately $750,000 for research on the Fatigue Fuse. In 1988 he became President and CEO of MATECH. Since that time Mr. Bernstein has been responsible for obtaining in excess of $8,000,000 from the US Government for research and development, congressional sponsorship for the technology, US Airforce interest for using the technology in its aging aircraft project, and support from the Federal Highway Administration for Bridge Monitoring Systems. |
| Marybeth
Miceli, Chief Operating Officer, |
| has over 12 years experience
in nondestructive evaluation and testing of civil infrastructure.
She was formerly the Director of Infrastructure Engineering for
Sam Schwartz Engineering PLLC in New York City. Prior to her time
there, she worked for Lucius Pitkin, Inc. where she was the Quality
Assurance Manager and performed failure analysis and remaining
life assessment of civil infrastructure and railroad assets, as
well as interfaced with state and federal government agencies on
safety, regulations, and testing. She is a Materials Science Engineer
by training with a background in civil infrastructure, nondestructive
evaluation, failure analysis, quality assurance, and transportation
and traffic engineering. She has extensive experience with nondestructive
evaluation management and methods and is currently serving on the
Board of Directors for the American Society for Nondestructive
Testing. Ms. Miceli obtained her M.S. from Virginia Polytechnic
and State University and her B.S. from The Johns Hopkins University.
She has published and presented numerous papers on NDE/NDT of civil
infrastructure. For further information see Resume and Profile . |
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| Brent
M, Phares, Ph.D., P.E., Chief Engineer, |
received
his Ph.D. at Iowa State University in Civil Engineering – Structures
in Aug., 1998. He is Associate Director for Bridges and Structures
at Iowa State University, Center for Transportation Research
and Education where he is responsible for the daily and long-term
administrative, research, and education activities related to
bridges and structures. He is also Bridge Engineer for the Iowa
Department of Transportation, Office of Bridges and Structures,
where his duties include training bridge engineering staff, conducting
bridge related research, developing research funding sources,
and other special projects. In these positions his responsibilities
also include the development and execution of field and laboratory
NDE system capability studies to determine the performance of
various NDE technologies. He has been awarded grants from, among
others, the National Science Foundation, the Iowa Highway Research
Board, and the Federal Highway Administration. He is the author
of numerous technical publications and reports. For further information
see Resume. |
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| William
Berks, Project Manager - Vice President and Board Member, |
| retired from TRW, Inc. in November 1992, after 26 years of service. Bill Berks’ last assignment was as a project manager in the Advanced Systems Division of TRW’s Space and Technology Group. He has over 30 years experience in spacecraft mechanical systems engineering, including work on large geostationary satellites, small three axis spacecraft and their subsystems, and commercial satellite operations. He has done manpower planning for spacecraft programs and flight hardware fabrication and testing. He has managed independent research and development projects (antennas, materials, solar arrays) and holds six patents. Berks also serves as an arbitrator for the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). |
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| Monty Moshier, Ph.D.,
Chief Technologist, |
| obtained
his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and
his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State
University. He Managed the High Cycle Fatigue Lab at the Air Force
Research Laboratory of Materials & Manufacturing Directorate
at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. As owner of Southern Utah Engineering
Experts, LLC he is responsible for the Research, Development, and
Application of MATECH’s Electrochemical Fatigue Sensor. |
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| Samuel
I. Schwartz, P.E., is President of Sam Schwartz Co., |
| consulting engineers, primarily in the bridge industry. He received his B.S. in Physics from Brooklyn College in 1969 and his Masters in Civil Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970. From 1986 to 1990, he was Chief Engineer/First Deputy Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation and from 1990 to the present has been a director of The Infrastructure Institute, Cooper Union College, New York City. |
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| Campbell
Laird. Ph.D.. Chief Researcher, |
| received
his BS in 1959, his MA in 1963 and his Ph.D. in 1963 from the
University of Cambridge. He has been a Senior Lecturer, Cambridge
College of Arts and Technology; a tutor, University of Cambridge;
a Senior Research Scientist, Ford Motor Company; a Battelle Visiting
Professor (Electron Microscopy), Ohio State University; a Professor,
University of Pennsylvania, where he was Chairman, Department
of Metallurgy & Materials Science; Gast-Professor of Physics,
University of Vienna; and Visiting Professor of BioMetallurgy,
University of Sorbonne, Paris. He is presently Professor and
Graduate Group Chairman, Department of Materials Science & Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania. His research has focussed on the
strength, structure and fatigue of materials, in which areas
he has published in excess of 250 papers. |
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| Gary
Hoffman, P.E., |
recently retired
from his position as Deputy Secretary for Highway Administration
after more than 30 years with the Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation (PennDOT). He is a principal Engineer for the
Mid – Atlantic Division and Program Manager assisting the
Federal Highway Administration in implementing the “Highway
for Life” program. |
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| Ted
Nicholas, Ph.D., |
was Senior Scientist
with the Air Force Materials Laboratory (AFRL) in the Materials
and Manufacturing Directorate at Wright Paterson Air Force Base.
He is the author of over 260 technical papers as well as the
co-author of two books. His major research interests have been
in high cycle fatigue, foreign object damage, damage tolerance,
and structural integrity and durability. |
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| Andrew
Whitney, Ph.D., |
earned his Ph.D.
in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania
where he has been working on the development of the EFS System
since 1999. He wrote his dissertation on, "Electrochemical
Fatigue Sensor Study of Fatigue in Copper and Ti-6Al-4V under
Variable-Amplitude Loading." Dr. Whitney is a materials
fatigue expert with expertise in sensors and data acquisition. Dr.
Whitney has undergraduate degrees in Materials Science and Engineering
as well as Slavic Languages and Literature from Northwestern
University. He also served three years in the U.S. Peace
Corps, teaching English at a technical university in Vladivostok,
Russia. Dr. Whitney is heading up the development of several
other technologies for MATECH. |
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