Richard Doyle
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Biography
Richard Doyle is a Registered Electrical and Civil Engineer in California and has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State University and an M.S. in Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. Mr. Doyle has more than 30 years of experience in the theoretical analysis and design of electrical and mechanical systems. Mr. Doyle's recent experience includes consulting for the past 20 years in the Medical Field for such companies as Thoratec, Gen-Probe, and other medical companies in California and the US. He analyzed the reliability of three generations of heart pumps and provided many recommendations to Thoratec for their various designs. He has provided design and analysis support for numerous systems associated with power supplies and associated electronic control systems based on Microprocessor, DSP, and ASIC applications. He was the Chairman of the Biotechnology Council for four years of one million members belonging to ten societies of which IEEE was a member
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Technical Specialties
Past President of the IEEE Reliability Society worldwide, he specializes in: Reliability Predictions, MTBF analysis of electrical and electro-mechanical systems; including FMEA's and Fault Trees. He has taught over 30 seminars on Thermal Analysis of Electronics, on Electrical and Mechanical Reliability and on Medical Technology and Privacy. His most recent tutorials were: Medical Technology and Privacy Sep 2011 and Electro-Mechanical reliability Oct 2012 in San Diego, three different tutorials at the SSIRI conference in Yokohama, and Micromechanical tutorial at UT Dallas 2009. He wrote 90 pages for McGraw Hill's "Electronics Engineering Handbook" (The EE Bible). He develops test procedures, conducts Qualification tests and provides proposals for planning activities. Mr. Doyle's recent experience includes consulting on Medical Equipment reliability and Cloud Computer monitor failure modes. He is also involved in qualifying Nuclear Radiation Monitoring equipment for General Atomics-ESI, including seismic analysis and hardware reliability. Other consulting tasks have included Safety Integrity Level and Hazard Analysis. In addition he has performed Structural Analysis of antennas. He was Director of Region 6 (60,000 members) and in 2004 & 2005 he was on the IEEE Board of Directors as Technical Director. Mr. Doyle has an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State University.
Additional Specialties
Expert Witness and Engineering Consultant, Mr. Doyle has: 1.) testified for Rohr Industries at the Federal Appellant Court in Alexandria VA. He testified as an expert witness in vibration and acoustics associated with the Washington DC Metro rail car. 2.) For Microwave Specialty Corp. San Marcos, California he testified on the reliability of a microwave rotary joint and 3.) prepared engineering studies and was deposed for 8 hours on a Phased Array antenna with wave-guide feeds. Case settled immediately. 4.) provided technical studies for Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe LLP, client was Fujitsu Limited. Fujitsu Limited v. Cirrus Logic & (Significant: Amkor & Sumitomo). He worked with the Fujitsu legal council for 2 months. Case immediately settled. 5.) He supported Sony in a Laptop Class Action. He prepared engineering studies and supported Sony legal council for a period of 3 months including 8 hour deposition. Case settled quickly. 6.) Supported U.S. Department of Justice before the United States Court of International Trade. The case was Graphite Sales v. United States, Court. He performed analysis, testing and prepared engineering studies for 3 months. He was deposed for 4 hours with demonstrations and data. Case settled out of court.
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Experience
Consultant
Doyle and Associates
Education
University of California-Irvine
Master of Engineering
Engineering
, 1969
Oregon State University
Bachelor of Engineering
Engineering
, 1963