Product Liability Metallurgical Expert Witness

J.E.I. Metallurgical, Inc.

5514 Harbor Town
Dallas, Texas 75287
USA

Contact: Dr. R. Craig Jerner
Tel: (972) 934-0493, Fax: (469) 737-3938

Expert Witness - Forensic Expert - Litigation Support - Speaker Bureau

J.E.I. Metallurgical, Inc., a product liability metallurgical expert witness firm headed by Dr. R. Craig Jerner offers over 35 years of professional experience in Accident Investigation, Products Liability, Metallurgical Failure Analysis, Litigation Consulting, and Expert Witness Services.

Services

J.E.I. Metallurgical is a focused, professional organization with a full support staff of administrative assistants and technicians. J.E.I. clients know who will be responsible for their project, as Dr. Jerner personally conducts each accident investigation and failure analysis. The company has a well-equipped metallurgical laboratory, however if metal testing with more extensive laboratory equipment is required, Dr. Jerner uses the best-qualified testing facilities. Dr. Jerner limits tests to those that, in his expert judgment, are necessary. Other qualified professionals are consulted whenever an accident investigation or metal failure analysis requires a team approach.

J.E.I. offers professional consulting and laboratory services, including:

Accident Investigation and Reconstruction,
Products Liability Expert Witness,
Product Failure Analysis,
Fire and Explosion Investigation,
Industrial Equipment Failure Analysis,
Scanning Electron Microscopy,
Forensic Macro-Micro Photographic Documentation,
Corrosion and Materials Evaluation,
Welding and Weldment Failure Analysis,
Mechanical Design Testing,
Metallurgical Engineering,
Litigation Consulting,
Third Party Review and Mediation,
Expert Witness Testimony.

Litigation Support Services

Dr. Jerner is a Litigation Consultant and Expert Witness and has conducted over 1,000 industrial accident investigations and failure analyses, testifying in over 225 depositions and more than 65 Federal and State court appearances for plaintiffs and defendants.

Areas of Expertise:

Profile

Dr. R. Craig Jerner, Ph.D., PE specializes in Accident Investigation and Metallurgical Failure Analysis and offers over 35 years professional experience as a Metallurgist, Metallurgical Engineering Consultant, and Accident Investigator. Dr. Jerner has testified as a Metallurgical Expert Witness in over 225 depositions and more than 65 court appearances, and conducted over 1,000 accident investigations.

He has been a metallurgist, metallurgical researcher, professor of metallurgical engineering, metallurgical engineering expert witness, failure analyst and accident investigator for more than 35 years. His research experience in metallurgy and as a metallurgist at the Denver Research Institute and Oklahoma University helped to form the foundation and investigative philosophy that he applies to failure analysis and accident investigation. Failure analysis and/or accident investigation is fundamental research in one of its purer forms.

His philosophy is to investigate all evidence as thoroughly as possible in order to develop the most probable accident scenario consistent with available physical evidence and developed data/test results. His goal is to identify and conduct complete photographic documentation of all evidence in order to clearly present the facts to the client, legal counsel or jury.

As a result of the experience he has gained working as a metallurgical expert witness for both plaintiff and defendant, and because he employs an all inclusive approach, Dr. Jerner brings unique qualities to each failure analysis and accident investigation and metallurgical expert consulting assignment.

Licenses

Registered Professional Engineer in Oklahoma and Texas.

Professional Experience

J.E.I. Metallurgical, Inc., Dallas, Texas, President
June 1990 to Present

Jerner Engineering, Inc., Norman, Oklahoma, President
Jan. 1988 to Dec 1995

University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, Adjunct Professor, College of Engineering
Dec. 1987 to Dec. 1991

Engineering and Materials Technology Corp (EMTEC Corp), Norman, Oklahoma, Senior Professional Staff Member
Apr. 1987 to Dec. 1987

Engineering and Materials Technology Corp (EMTEC Corp), Norman, Oklahoma, President and Senior Professional Staff Member
Jan. 1979 to Mar. 1987

United States Department of Transportation, Transportation Safety Institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Associate staff member/modal instructor
1973 to 1978

S.W. Metallurgical Consultants, Inc., Norman, Oklahoma, President and Senior Professional Staff Member
1973 to 1979

University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, Assistant Dean of Graduate College
1971 to 1972

University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, College of Engineering
- Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (1976 to 1978)
- Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (1969 to 1976) - Tenured
- Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (1965 to 1969) - Tenured

Univ. of Denver Research Institute, Metallurgy Div. Research Assoc. Metallurgy Div. NASA Fellowship,
Denver, CO,
1962-1965

Washington Univ., Teaching Asst. Metallurgical Engineering, St. Louis, MO,
1961-1962

Legal Experience & Services

As a world class metallurgist and metallurgical engineer, he has also served as a metallurgical consultant to the United States Coast Guard (USCG), National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), U.S. Department of Labor (OSHA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). He has testified, as a metallurgist and metallurgical engineering expert witness, before several federal agencies "Boards of Inquiry." Dr. Jerner's metallurgical expert witness testimony from these accident investigations has appeared in The Congressional Record.

Affiliations

American Institute of Mining;
Metallurgical & Petroleum Engineers;
Oklahoma Section Chairman 1970, 1975;
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), Member since 1978;
American Welding Society (AWS), Member since 1985;
ASM International, Chairman of Central Oklahoma Chapter 1970, 1975, Member since 1960;
National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE), Member since 1987;
National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), Member since 1977;
Oklahoma Society of Professional Engineers(OSPE), Member since 1977;
Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Member since 1985;
Texas Society of Professional Engineers (TSPE), Member since 1977.

Qualifications

Awards & Honors

Listed in American Men & Women of Science,
Who's Who in Science,
Who’s Who in Engineering,
Who's Who in the South & Southwest,
Who's Who in Technology Today,
Who's Who in The World, Best Lawyers in America Directory of Experts;
Sigma Xi Society Member,
Alpha Sigma Mu Member,
Standard Oil Co. Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Instruction.

Seminars & Training

“Metallurgy for Engineers”;
“Growth of Metallurgical Engineering at OU”;
“Fundamentals of Welding Metallurgy”;
“Corrosion Fundamentals”;
“Fast-Draw Failure Analysis”;
"Evaluating Metallurgical Evidence in Violent Vehicle Accidents”;
“Investigation of Ranger One Collapse”,
“Legal Investigations - The Eye of the Beholder”;
“Principles of Accident Investigation”;
“Failure Analysis & Accident Investigation”;
“Failure Analysis”;
“What Do ASTM Standards Really Require?”;
“Expert View of Litigation Process";
“Is it a Question of Ethics?”.

Publications

“Corrosion of Polycrystalline Copper as a Function of Preferred Orientation”, Masters of Science Thesis, Washington University (1962);
“Thermionic Properties of Polycrystalline Zirconium, Beryllium & Selected Zirconium Beryllides”, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Denver (1965);
“The Growth of Gadolinium Single Crystals”, Masters of Science Thesis, Tzay-Chen Shen, University of Oklahoma (1969);
“Thermionic Emission Characteristics of Polycrystalline Zirconium”, M.S. Thesis, J. W. Raper, University of Oklahoma (1969);
“The Effect of Firing Temperature on the Mechanical Properties of Steatite & Pyrophyllite”, Masters of Science Thesis, Joe B. Kersey, University of Oklahoma (1970);
“Auger Electron Spectroscopy of the Lanthanide Rare Earth Elements”, Ph.D. Dissertation, Kenneth P. Maddox, University of Oklahoma (1972).

Professional References

Available upon request.

Education

Ph.D., Metallurgy, 1965, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado;
M.S., Metallurgical Engineering, 1962, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; B.S., Metallurgical Engineering, 1961, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

Consulting Practice:

All States

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