Early Technical Assessment
Identify the central engineering questions, available evidence, missing information, feasible analyses, and potential technical strengths or weaknesses.
Independent Technical Investigation
Expert Witness, Litigation Support, and Failure Analysis
MicroFab provides independent electrical and electronic engineering analysis for product failures, technical disputes, litigation, insurance matters, manufacturing problems, semiconductor technologies, and other matters requiring evidence-based engineering evaluation.
Begin with the Technical Question and the Available Evidence
A useful investigation must distinguish observed facts from assumptions, test competing explanations, and connect any opinion to reliable engineering analysis. MicroFab structures each engagement around the technical questions, applicable evidence, required work, and decisions the client or counsel must make.
Matters We May Evaluate
- Electrical and electronic product failures
- Semiconductor devices, fabrication processes, equipment, and materials
- Circuits, sensors, controls, instrumentation, power devices, and system interfaces
- Manufacturing defects, process excursions, reliability concerns, and production problems
- Technical performance, specifications, testing, design decisions, and claimed causes
- Patent, trade-secret, product-liability, contract, and technical commercial disputes
Potential Clients
- Attorneys and law firms
- Corporate legal and engineering departments
- Manufacturers and product developers
- Insurers and claims professionals
- Facility owners, contractors, and equipment suppliers
- Investors or organizations needing an independent technical investigation
Investigation and Litigation-Support Capabilities
Document & Evidence Review
Review technical records, drawings, specifications, designs, photographs, data, test results, patents, correspondence, procedures, and relevant physical evidence.
Failure Analysis
Examine failure mechanisms, operating history, design and manufacturing factors, environmental conditions, interfaces, reliability, and competing causal explanations.
Testing & Analytical Planning
Define technically useful inspections, measurements, simulations, experiments, exemplar testing, or laboratory work and evaluate the resulting data.
Expert Reports & Technical Opinions
Develop clear, supportable engineering findings and explain the reasoning, evidence, limitations, and alternative explanations relevant to each opinion.
Deposition, Hearing & Trial Support
Assist counsel with technical preparation, demonstrative concepts, examination issues, rebuttal analysis, deposition support, and testimony when retained for that role.
A Disciplined Technical Method
Frame
Define the questions, scope, relevant disciplines, evidence, deadlines, confidentiality requirements, and expected work product.
Investigate
Organize and examine the technical record, physical evidence, system behavior, operating conditions, tests, standards, and literature.
Analyze
Evaluate hypotheses using engineering principles, calculations, simulations, testing, comparisons, and consideration of alternative explanations.
Communicate
Present findings clearly through consultation, written analysis, reports, deposition support, demonstratives, or testimony as required.
Independence: Opinions are based on the available evidence and engineering analysis. The scope and conclusions are not determined by the desired litigation or commercial outcome.
Principal Consultant — Expert Witness & Failure Analysis
Professor Ibrahim Abdel-Motaleb, PhD, PE, SM IEEE
Professional Engineering License: 062049152
Professor Ibrahim Abdel-Motaleb is a registered professional engineer and professor of electrical engineering whose experience includes electrical and electronic systems, semiconductor devices and fabrication, integrated circuits, electronic materials, modeling and simulation, manufacturing, reliability, failure analysis, and expert-witness work.
Representative matters have involved barium-titanate sensors used in refrigeration systems, LED lighting, fuel-cell technologies, component and solenoid failures, semiconductor devices and processes, patents, test results, technical records, and the engineering performance of products and equipment. His expert-witness experience includes courtroom testimony.
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