Automated Vehicle & Accident Reconstruction Expert

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There are four PhD and registered Professional Engineers at Miller Engineering who are celebrating 40 years of Professorships at three universities along with providing services to Government, Insurance, and Industry - through research, publications, presentations, and expert testimony. These co-founders and associates are James M. Miller, PE, PhD; Mark R. Lehto, PhD; James M.L. Miller, MS, PhD, EIT; Adam M. Olshove, PE, MSE; and Jeffrey D. Rupp, MSE. Miller Engineering has a dedicated office with a full-time staff of engineers, researchers, and technical writers. The span of our collective academic and experiential expertise includes the Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Agricultural, Industrial, Human Factors, Ergonomic and Safety fields of engineering. Miller Engineering also designs and operates hydroelectric and solar energy sources within their agricultural, forestry, marine, and cattle subsidiary operations in Idaho and Oregon, lending to unique hand-on expertise in these areas. Jeffrey Rupp, MSE—Engineering Associate. Jeff has a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan and a MS in systems engineering and engineering management from Wayne State University. Among his company affiliates is 26 years with Ford Motor Company and Volvo Car Corporation, where he was involved in crash development and crash sensing calibrations. He also developed the first single camera, side pre-crash activated, airbag system and test methodology. While at Ford and Volvo Jeff also established and led the first organizational unit dedicated to active safety research and development, leading a team of 75 staff members. He developed corporate Automated Driving technology strategies, along with three generations of accident avoidance and driver support technology. He executed the first robotic pedestrian collision avoidance system in combination with building two generations of fully autonomous vehicles. Jeff’s work at these companies has resulted in him being awarded 24 patents in the areas of safety and vehicular autonomy, including an adaptive cruise control system, a single vision sensor object detection system, and a universal seat-mounted airbag. Jeff is a member of the SAE’s On-Road Autonomous Vehicle Standards Committee. He has participated in the analysis and revision of FMVSS regulations for highly automated vehicles. Finally, Jeff has authored several well-recognized publications on topics such as electronic active safety technologies, autonomous driving, side crash pressure sensor prediction, and steering wheel and column assembly for frontal and side impact simulations. Out of the staff members at Miller Engineering, Jeff is the person with the most experiential and productive exposures to the area of highly sophisticated autonomous electric vehicle safety systems.