MicroFab Design & Consulting
MicroFab Design & Consulting — Advanced Engineering Solutions
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Electrical Engineering and Biotechnology Consultant

Independent consulting focused on electrical power systems, electronic-system failure analysis and litigation support, and biotechnology and laboratory development.

MicroFab’s electrical engineering consulting focuses on power systems for industrial, commercial, and residential facilities and on independent technical analysis of electronic and semiconductor systems. Services include power-distribution design and analysis, electrical load and fault-current studies, grounding and bonding, lighting, arc-flash and shock-hazard assessment, failure investigation, expert-witness support, and technical litigation support involving electronic systems and semiconductor technologies.

MicroFab’s biotechnology consulting focuses on medical and biological laboratory development, molecular-diagnostics laboratories, laboratory planning and startup, assay and workflow development, quality-system support, scientific and technical assessment, and integration of biological requirements with engineering systems.

MicroFab Consulting Services

MicroFab delivers advanced engineering and scientific consulting across the following specialized service areas.

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Construction and Facility Electrical Consulting

Electrical Systems for Commercial, Industrial, and Residential Construction and Facilities
  • Power-distribution design and analysis
  • Electrical load calculations and load schedules
  • Feeder, branch-circuit, and service design
  • Transformer, generator, and automatic transfer switch applications
  • Motor, motor-control, and motor-control-center applications
  • Conductor and cable sizing
  • Voltage-drop calculations
  • Short-circuit and available fault-current calculations
  • Protective-device selection and coordination
  • Arc-flash incident-energy and arc-flash-boundary analysis
  • Shock-hazard evaluation
  • Grounding and bonding design and review
  • Lighting-system design and calculations
  • Lighting-control and energy-code coordination
  • Panelboard and equipment schedules
  • One-line diagrams and electrical construction drawings
  • Electrical requirements for HVAC, mechanical, and process equipment
  • Review of drawings, specifications, calculations, and equipment submittals
  • Testing, commissioning, retrofit, and technical problem resolution
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Failure Analysis, Expert Witness, and Litigation Support

  • Independent technical analysis of electrical and electronic systems
  • Semiconductor and microelectronics devices, materials, fabrication, and manufacturing processes
  • Product and system failure investigation
  • Root-cause analysis
  • Technical review of documents, data, and test results
  • Patent and technology analysis
  • Expert reports, deposition support, and testimony
  • Technical consulting for attorneys, companies, and insurers
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Biomedical and Biotechnology Laboratory Consulting

  • Biomedical and medical device-related consulting
  • Molecular-diagnostics laboratory development
  • Laboratory planning and startup
  • Assay and workflow development
  • Clinical laboratory quality systems
  • Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) implementation and optimization
  • Laboratory equipment selection and workflow planning
  • Staff training and operational readiness
  • Scientific and technical assessment of biomedical products and technologies
  • Technical review and troubleshooting of laboratory operations
  • Integration of biological requirements with engineering systems

How Can MicroFab Help Your Organization?

Start with your need. We will help determine the technical path.

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Are you a mechanical, chemical, biomedical, or other non-electrical engineering company that needs electrical system development?
We can design and integrate the electrical and electronic systems your product or process requires.

E

Are you an investor, acquirer, or decision-maker evaluating an engineering, semiconductor, biomedical, diagnostic, or laboratory-technology company or product?
We can provide an independent technical and scientific assessment of the technology, risks, claims, evidence, and development or implementation readiness.

G

Have a technical issue that does not fit neatly into one of these categories?
Share it with us. A brief discussion may be enough to determine whether MicroFab can help—and what the next step should be.

Examples of Previous Work

Representative work in Construction facilities, biotechnology, and expert consulting

A

Design of the electrical system—including wiring, lighting, and control panels—for a 250,000-ton refrigeration facility.

B

Design and construction of a six-story concrete building, including design of the foundation and primary concrete structural system.

C

Design and development of a heart-diagnosis system, including electronic hardware and system integration.

D

Design and construction of a metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) system for the growth of zinc selenide and zinc sulfide materials.

E

Failure analysis and redesign of a solenoid used in earth-moving equipment.

F

Expert-witness and technical-consulting work involving product failures in barium titanate sensors used in refrigeration systems, LED lighting systems, and fuel-cell technologies.

G

Design, fabrication, modeling, and evaluation of semiconductor and microelectronic devices, circuits, materials, and systems.

H

Clinical NGS laboratory startup and operations, including procurement, workflow development, SOP implementation, quality systems, LIMS, inventory management, budgeting support, and staff training.

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Molecular assay development and high-complexity testing involving NGS, PCR/qPCR, DNA/RNA extraction, cancer genomics, hereditary-cancer and carrier-screening workflows, and rapid pathogen detection.

Dr. Ibrahim Abdel-Motaleb, Principal Consultant

Principal Consultant

Dr. Ibrahim Abdel-Motaleb, PhD, PE, SM IEEE

Professional Engineering License: 062049152

Dr. Abdel-Motaleb is a professor of electrical engineering with extensive experience spanning electrical and electronic systems, semiconductor devices and manufacturing processes, electronic materials, integrated-circuit design and fabrication, circuit design and simulation, device modeling, research and development, laboratory leadership, consulting, and expert-witness work.

His experience combines academic depth with practical engineering leadership. He has directed a multimillion-dollar research and development laboratory with a 7,000-square-foot cleanroom and has worked across product development, fabrication, reliability, failure analysis, advanced materials, manufacturing, and independent technical evaluation.

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Amany Abdel-Motaleb, Biomedical and Laboratory Consultant

Lead Biomedical & Laboratory Consultant

Amany Abdel-Motaleb, MS, ASCP-Certified in Molecular Biology

Molecular Biology — ASCP Board of Certification #7942

Amany Abdel-Motaleb is an ASCP-certified molecular biologist and experienced clinical-laboratory supervisor with more than ten years of clinical, research, teaching, assay-development, and laboratory-operations experience.

Her background includes building and launching a clinical NGS laboratory; high-complexity molecular testing; CAP, CLIA, and NYSDOH quality environments; LIMS and inventory systems; staff training; cancer genomics; and published research in molecular diagnostics, microbiology, nanotechnology, and rapid pathogen detection.

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Technical Inquiries

MicroFab Design & Consulting, LLC

Engineering@microfab-consulting.com
(815) 409-1712
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P.O. Box 877
Batavia, IL 60510, USA

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Corporate Relations

Manal Al-Fayyed, Corporate Relations

Manal Al-Fayyed
Corporate Relations

Manal coordinates initial client communications, project inquiries, scheduling, business correspondence, and follow-up between prospective clients and MicroFab's technical team.

If you are not sure where your project fits, Corporate Relations can help begin the conversation and connect you with the appropriate technical discussion.