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Ceramics, Materials Processing, Expert Consultant
Expertise in materials processing, extrusion, injection molding, dry-pressing (biaxial/isostatic), tape-casting, screen and mask printing, roll compaction, conventional powder processing techniques, physical/chemical deposition techniques.

This KKAI Associate also specializes in conventional heat-treating techniques (including hot-pressing), photolithography, welding, casting, electroplating, plasma-spraying, metallographic/petrographic techniques, x-ray diffractometry, electron microscopy, thermal analysis techniques and instruments, electrical and radio frequency test techniques/instruments.

Additional specialties include mechanical testing, chemical analysis, nde techniques, wireless telecommunications, power generation, transmission, and distribution, cryogenics, electronic packaging, residential/commercial/ industrial lighting, energy storage, oil exploration and drilling, cutting and abrasive tools, medical imaging, military-related businesses, intellectual property protection, patent application and prosecution, technology transfer, and collaboration agreements (government and industrial).

Highly experienced in areas including contract research and development, proposals for government and industry, contract negotiation, execution, and close-out, project management, product specification and development, technology assessment, market research, government contracts, technical direction, fault current limiters, radio frequency components, marketing commercial superconductor products powders, continuous conductors, and three-dimensional shapes, yttrium barium cuprate powder, thin film substrates, high temperature superconducting ceramics, battery applications, alumina arc tube materials optimization, high pressure sodium lamps, and low-thermal expansion silicate materials.

Has conducted numerous studies in areas including integrated circuit supports, alumina-tungsten packaging materials, microstructural and phase development during firing, metallization application techniques and microstructure, organic components for tape-casting and screen-printing, creep of polycrystalline solid solutions, creep mapping in polycrystalline ceramics, diffusion of chromium in magnetite, defects and cation diffusion in magnetite, thermoelectric power of wustite, quenched wustite thermoelectric power measurements, thermal gradients effect on ionic defects in wustite, kinetics of the beta to beta transformation, beta powder processing, growth of beta alumina on aluminum oxide, diffusion data and activation energies, sodium and aluminum oxide reaction, mullite-cordierite ceramics, vapor phase SiC powder synthesis, liquid phase sintered aluminum oxide densification, diffusion in grain boundaries, ceramic fiber process fabrication, the green fiber method, glass coating of wire, intermodulation products, thick film high temperature superconductor applications, XDS helium cryostat, composite ceramics, co-sintering, metal-ceramic packages, superconductor powder preparation, superconducting materials, cryogenic fluid level sensors, fault current limiters, magnetically activated switches, cryogenic dielectrics, and stripline resonators

PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED
Computers, Electronics, Packaging, Printing, Superconductors

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Ceramics Section, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Technische Universität Hannover
B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant, Kevin Kennedy & Associates, Inc.

Providing materials science engineering consulting, ceramics expertise, materials processing consulting, research management, project leadership, failure analysis, forensic engineering and related expertise to a wide variety of clients.

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Consulted on advanced materials, including product specification and development, technology assessment, market research, proposal preparation, and intellectual property development and protection.

Chief Scientist, Illinois Superconductor Corporation

Was responsible for technical direction and planning within the company. Included responsibility for procurement and execution of government contracts, supervision of development and support of the company's existing and anticipated product lines in cryogenic instrumentation, fault current limiters, and radio frequency components, and coordination of development programs with marketing efforts.

Directed product development for the company’s RF filter product line from concept through transition to manufacturing. Implemented formal documentation procedure for all technical activities within the company, from advanced development/research to engineering changes to existing products. Oversaw growth of company’s technical staff from 1 full-time professional (in 1991) to a maximum of 35 full-time professionals. Negotiated one technology acquisition, one collaborative development relationship with a private company, and five collaborative development relationships with universities and national laboratories. Oversaw the preparation and prosecution of 40 patent applications, 10 of which have issued to date. Procured $2.75MM in government contract revenue between 1991 and 1995. As principal investigator, successfully administered and directed all of ISC’s government contracts, including an ATP project involving three subcontractors.

Vice President of Engineering, CPS Superconductor Corporation

Supervised research group of eight professionals, responsible for the development of commercial superconductor products including powders, continuous conductors, and three-dimensional shapes. Supervised successful effort to develop and commercialize the production of yttrium barium cuprate powder.

Senior Project Leader, Ceramics Process Systems Corporation

Supervised research group of 12 professionals. Was responsible for projects studying advanced processes for the manufacture of thin film substrates and next-generation electronic packaging. Also supervised project studying the processing and fabrication of high temperature superconducting ceramics.

Staff Scientist/Ceramics Branch at Corporate Research and Development Center, General Electric Company

Studied powder processing and phase equilibria in beta alumina materials for potential battery applications. Optimized alumina arc tube materials for high pressure sodium lamps. Developed multiphase low-thermal expansion silicate materials for integrated circuit supports. Additional study in alumina-tungsten packaging materials, including microstructural and phase development during firing, metallization application techniques and microstructure, and organic components for tape-casting and screen-printing applications.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Extensive experience with the management of multidisciplinary teams working on time-constrained projects

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Ceramic Society
The Electrochemical Society
International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life

PUBLICATIONS
Numerous publications on topics related to creep of polycrystalline solid solutions, creep mapping in polycrystalline ceramics, diffusion of chromium in magnetite, defects and cation diffusion in magnetite, thermoelectric power of wustite, quenched wustite thermoelectric power measurements, thermal gradients effect on ionic defects in wustite, kinetics of the beta to beta transformation, beta powder processing, growth of beta alumina on aluminum oxide, diffusion data and activation energies, sodium and aluminum oxide reaction, mullite-cordierite ceramics, vapor phase SiC powder synthesis, liquid phase sintered aluminum oxide densification, diffusion in grain boundaries, ceramic fiber process fabrication, the green fiber method, glass coating of wire, intermodulation products, thick film high temperature superconductor applications, XDS helium cryostat, and more
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Holder of 15 patents related to composite ceramics, co-sintering, metal-ceramic packages, superconductor powder preparation, superconducting materials, cryogenic fluid level sensors, fault current limiters, magnetically activated switches, cryogenic dielectrics, and stripline resonators.

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