Profiles
 Robert R. Wright, Ph.D. is the
president of LEXPERT and former Assistant to Dean in the College
of Engineering at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, where
he taught mathematics, science and engineering courses. He continues
to do research and author papers in science and engineering and is
a co-author of a collegiate textbook in addition to numerous journal
articles and scientific and technical presentations. Dr. Wright's
area of expertise if Force Analysis and Dynamics which includes Accident
Reconstruction. He has investigated and analyzed approximately a thousand
accidents involving various products (automobiles, farm tractors,
trucks, lawn mowers, ATVs, fork-lifts, scaffolds, golf carts, step-ladders,
etc.) in various accident scenarios. Because of his educational and
professional background, he has been asked to reconstruct many of the more
difficult accident scenarios such as industrial or work place accidents or
other accidents where there have been no witnesses or conflicting
witness statements to the accident. He has testified as an accident
reconstruction expert and an expert on product design in Federal and
State Courts throughout the United States. He has appeared on several
occasions as a technical expert on national television both in the
U.S.A. and Canada. Dr. Wright was asked by the United States Senate
Committee on Government Affairs to testify as a technical expert before
that committee which he did in 1990. In 1995, he was selected to serve
as one of the faculty members at the American Bar Association's National
Institute on Emerging Issues in Motor Vehicle Product Liability Litigation
as an expert in vehicular dynamics and defective products. Dr. Wright
has been asked on numerous occasions by the United States Consumer
Products Safety Commission (CPSC) to participate in hearings and meetings. On one occasion he was given an honorarium from the United States Consumer
Products Safety Commission to spend a day (9/19/97) with the CPSC
staff to discuss his observations, calculations, testing, and opinions
as it pertains to stability and safety. In 1996, Dr. Wright
was invited as a featured speaker at the European Joint Conference
on Engineering System Design and Analysis held in France where his
talk was entitled "Accident Reconstruction and Reconstructive Analysis".
 George L. Smith Ph.D., P.E. is vice president of LEXPERT
and the former Chairman of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department
and Associate Dean of the College of Engineering at The Ohio State
University in Columbus, Ohio. He has been a project director or
principal investigator on numerous research projects. Dr. Smith's
research includes investigations of driver and
pilot behavior, design theory and practice, and human behavior in
the work place. In addition to earning B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees
in industrial engineering, he has also earned an M.S. degree in
experimental psychology. Dr. Smith is an arbitrator of labor/management disputes for the Federal
Mediation and Conciliation Service and the author or co-author of
numerous journal articles and scientific and technical presentations.
Dr. Smith is the former editor of Human Factors, the journal
of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. He has been named a fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the Institute of Industrial
Engineers, and the World Academy of Productivity Science.
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