Professor Jahan Rasty, Ph.D., PE, MBA

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Since 1988, Professor Rasty has provided engineering consulting to industry and government labs, as well as litigation support to both plaintiff and defense attorneys. Professor Rasty’s areas of expertise include product liability and personal injury law in the areas of component design, defect, and safety; and intellectual property law dealing with patent review, infringement, breach of confidentiality, and trade secret violation involving mechanical/electrical issues. Professor Rasty has over 28 years of experience in engineering R&D for industry and academia, consulting, and expert witness litigation support including deposition and court testimony. Professor Rasty is internationally recognized in areas of expertise and possesses considerable litigation and forensic engineering experience. He completed his Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana State University and earned an MBA from Texas Tech University. Professor Rasty is a registered and board certified professional engineer in the state of Texas.

Credentials

President & CEO – Real-World Forensic Engineering, LLC
Tenured Full-Professor – Texas Tech University – Edward E. Whitacre, Jr. College of Engineering – Department of Mechanical Engineering
Director of the Materials Performance & Failure Analysis Laboratory at Texas Tech University
Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of more than $7 Million in Peer-Reviewed and Funded Research
Registered Professional Engineer – State of Texas

Areas of Expertise Include

Materials
Mechanical Design/Mechanisms
Injury Bio Mechanics
Forensic Engineering
Root-Cause Failure Analysis
Manufacturing
Fatigue & Fracture
Corrosion
Stress Analysis
Metallurgy
Destructive & Nondestructive Residual Stress Measurement
Dynamic Events: Impact, Explosives, Metal Forming, Thermal Stress
Tribology (Analysis of Surface Friction)

Project Experience

Mechanical Structures & Materials
- Derricks, Ladders, Cranes, Scaffolds
- Aerial Lifts, Fork Lifts, Boom Lifts
- Pressure Vessels, Valves, Piping
Exercise and Sports Equipment
- Failures & Injury
- Intellectual Property Issues
Premises Liability
- Slips, Trips, & Falls
- Job Site Hazards
Consumer Products
- Design, Manufacturing, & Warnings Defects
- Alternative Design
Fire Investigation
- Cause & Origin
- Explosion Analysis
Automotive and Commercial Vehicle Accidents
- Accident Reconstruction
- Commercial Vehicle Wheel-offs
- Load Securement
Machine Guarding & Safety
Medical Devices & Implants

Professional Affiliations

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM)
American Society of Materials (ASM International)
The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE International)
Electronic Device Failure Analysis Society (EDFAS)
National Association of Fire Investigators (NAFI)
National Association of Forensic Engineers (NAFE)

University Courses Taught and Developed (**)

Materials Science, TTU-ME 2311
Statics, TTU-ME 2464
Measurements & Instrumentation Laboratory, TTU-ME 3218
Materials and Mechanics Laboratory, TTU-ME 3328
Dynamics, TTU-ME 3331
Introduction to Machine Design, TTU-ME 3364
Machine Component Design, TTU-ME 3365
Mechanics of Solids, TTU-ME 3464
Mechanical Systems Laboratory, TTU-ME 4252
Individual Studies, TTU-ME 4331
Materials in Design (**), TTU-ME 4341
Principles of Failure Analysis & Forensic Engineering (**), TTU-ME 4342
Mechanical Metallurgy (**), TTU-ME 4343
Manufacturing Processes, TTU-ME 4344
Applied Mechanics (**), TTU-ME 4362
Senior Design-I, TTU-ME 4370
Senior Design-II, TTU-ME 4371
Deformation Mechanics (**), TTU-ME 5331 (graduate)
Fracture and Failure Analysis (**), TTU-ME 5342 (graduate)
Dislocation Mechanics (**), TTU-ME 5343 (graduate)
Theory of Thermal Stresses (**), TTU-ME 5344, (graduate)
Foundations of Solid Mechanics (**), TTU-ME 5352 (graduate)
Plasticity and Viscoelasticity (**), TTU-ME 5353 (graduate)

Education

Master of Business Administration – Texas Tech University – 1999
Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering - Louisiana State University – 1987
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering – Louisiana State University – 1984
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering – Louisiana State University – 1981

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