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Gordon W. Bigg, PhD, PE
Trantech Corporation
2703 152nd Avenue NE
Redmond, WA 98052-5515
Phone: (206) 861-4666
Fax (206) 861-4664
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Summary
Dr. Bigg is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Washington.
Education
Dr. Gordon W. Bigg graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta with distinction in 1961. He was the recipient of the Alberta Professional Engineer's gold medal in Mechanical Engineering for that year. He went on to specialize in Applied Mechanics at the University of Illinois where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1966. Applied Mechanics is a broad branch of engineering concerned with materials, machines and structures and their response to forces. This response is associated with the strength and deformation of the material components and/or the geometry of the resulting motion.
Experience
In 1965, Dr. Bigg joined the engineering faculty of Carleton University in Ottawa, where he developed and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in dynamics, structures, stress analysis, stability, and machine design. He created and taught for several years, a senior undergraduate course in failure analysis designed to reconstruct engineering failures in order to instruct students on the use and limitations of their engineering skills and to learn from the experience of others. He was an advisor to doctorate level graduate students and he developed an experimental stress analysis laboratory, which was engaged by industry and government in contract research. In l973, he resigned his tenured faculty position from the University to pursue a consulting engineering practice.
Throughout his technical career, Dr. Bigg has been involved in a wide variety of engineering projects. These have included: Technical Failure Investigations, Vehicle Compliance Testing, Accident Reconstruction and Failure Analysis, Computer Applications Programming, Structural Analysis, Stress and Dynamic Analysis of Mechanical Systems and Vehicle Testing.
Dr. Bigg has specialized in the analysis of mechanical failures and motor vehicle accident reconstruction since June 1982 as the President of MacInnis Bigg Associates Ltd. In 1987, he expanded his activities to include Washington State with the formation of Trantech Corporation. Since the fall of 1990 he has been engaged full time with technical investigations, vehicle accident reconstruction, defect investigation and vehicle dynamics software in the United States.
His professional library is extensive and includes the latest conference materials on occupant and vehicle dynamics and accident reconstruction technology.
Trantech, through ARSoftware, has developed and marketed commercial software for the reconstruction of automobile and truck accidents. Police officers and consultants throughout the country rely on this software on a daily basis. These programs have required original research work by Dr. Bigg. Since 1986, he has taught an advanced one week course at least three times a year for the University of North Florida Institute of Police Technology and Management. The subject matter is advanced accident reconstruction with the aid of the micro-computer.
He published a paper in 1985 on the "Uses and Abuses of CRASH". He has co-authored the Technical Reference Manuals which accompany the software. He presented a paper at the IPTM Special Problems Seminar, April 1991, concerning the stiffness properties of vehicles. In September 1991, he organized a series of ABS and standard brake tests in conjunction with the Bellevue, Washington Police Department.
He co-authored a paper, "Truck Braking Efficiency," presented to the IPTM Special Problems Seminar, April 1994. To date, Dr. Bigg has been personally involved with accident reconstruction in over four hundred cases. These engineering studies have included:
He has had experience with a wide variety of accident types which have involved:
Dr. Bigg has been accepted to give expert testimony as a professional mechanical engineer with expertise in the subjects of automobile accident reconstruction and dynamics in the Supreme Court of British Columbia on numerous occasions. He has been deposed and has given expert testimony in the Superior Court of the State of Washington.
Affiliations
Dr. Bigg is a current member of the Society of Automotive Engineers. He is a member in good standing of the Washington Association of Technical Accident Investigators and the Southwestern Association of Technical Accident Investigators. He is a past member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis, and the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine.
March 14, 1995