Engineering Mechanical
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Laura Liptai, Doctorate of Philosophy Ph.D. BioMedical Engineering, University of California at Davis
Board Certified Forensic Engineer Mathematical Modeling of Side Impact Head Dynamics 1996
BioMedical Engineering Ph.D. M.S. M.S. BioMedical Engineering, University of California at Davis
Mechanical Engineering B.S. Occupant Protection Design Improvement 1993
M.B.A. Engineering Project Mgt, University of Southern California, Robotic
Engineering and Applied Science
Motor Usage 1985
Mechanism and Causation of Trauma
Accident Reconstruction
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Davis
Impact Biomechanics
National 3rd Place Human Powered Vehicle Design 1983
Ergonomics/Human Factors, DIS Royal Academy of Denmark 1981
Academic Appointments and Positions
University of California at Davis
Anatomy and Histology, School of Medicine 1994
Mechanical/Machine Design, School of Engineering 1993
Honors
Awarded Andrew Payne National Award
for Exemplary Contribution in Advancing Forensic Engineering Sciences for
pioneering new techniques or procedures which have widespread
acceptance and contribute to the advancement of forensic engineering
science. 2010
Board of Directors
American Academy of Forensic Sciences
Worldwide membership of 5600 representing all 50 United States, Canada
and 54 other countries, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences is a
San Fracisco Area
multi-disciplinary organization that provides leadership to advance
science, foster research and encourage international collaboration.
2010 elect
Orlando
2011-2013 term
Los Angeles Board of Directors
International Board of Forensic Engineering Sciences
Accredited by the Forensic Science Accreditation Board that was formed by
www.biomedicalforensics.com the American Academy of Forensic Sciences with support from the US
abpl4a@r.postjobfree.com Department of Justice, the IBFES executes strict criteria culminating in peer
reviews as well as oral and written examinations for domestic and
international candidates.
Diplomate 2005-present
Board of Directors 2008-present
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Honors continued
Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Third Edition
National Academy of Sciences Reviewer of the Reference Guide on Engineering
The manual is developed by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the Federal Judicial Center (FJC). The National
Academy of Sciences is a society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the
furtherance of science and technology and their use for the general welfare. Upon the authority of the charter granted by
Congress in 1863, the National Academy of Science has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal government on
scientific and technical matters. The Federal Judicial Center, established by Congress in 1967 (28 U.S.C. 620-629), is the
research and education agency of the federal judicial system responsible for continuing education and training for federal
judges, court employees, and others as well as conducting research on behalf of the federal judiciary. 2010
Journal of Forensic Science
Engineering Manuscript Reviewer 2008-present
National Engineering Honor Tau Beta Pi
Elected for Distinguished Achievement in Engineering Scholarship 1995
National Biological Sciences Research Honor Phi Sigma
Awarded by the University of California for Research in the Biological Sciences 1995
Clinical Experience
Radiology and Neuroradiology, University of California at Davis Medical Center (UCDMC)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Rotation 1996
Computerized Tomography Rotation 1995
Forensic Pathology
Sacramento County, California Coroner s Office 1993
Santa Clara County, California Coroner s Office, Volunteer 2002-2003
Orthopedic Trauma UCDMC 1992
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spine Injury Clinic UCDMC 1992
International and U.S. Territories
Quantification of Occupant Dynamics, Delta V and Acceleration Associated with Vehicle Component Damage in Sideswipe
Impact
International Society of Biomechanics XXII World Congress, University of Cape Town, South Africa 2009
Forensic BioMedical Engineering Experimentation and Mathematical Modeling to Analyze Automotive Trauma Causation
Encyclopedia of Forensic Science, John Wiley & Sons, London, United Kingdom 2009
Basic Elements in Accident Reconstruction
Encyclopedia of Forensic Science, John Wiley & Sons, London, United Kingdom 2009
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International and U.S. Territories continued
Forensic Engineering Analysis of Propeller Contact Injury
National Academy of Forensic Engineers Co-Author/Speaker, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2008
Journal of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers 2008
BioMedical Engineering Analysis of Pedestrian Obstacles and Recovery/Fall Mechanics
International Academy of Forensic Sciences Author/Speaker, Hong Kong 2005
Forensic Engineering Analysis of Passenger Vehicle A-Pillar Impact With Tractor-Trailer: Full Scale Crash Tests
International Academy of Forensic Sciences Author/Speaker, Hong Kong 2005
Chairman European Technical Research Conference, Society of Forensic Engineers and Scientists
Paris, France 2002
Research, Committees and Publications
Chairman Interdisciplinary Symposium International Research: The Forensic Edge
Atlanta, GA 2010 appointment for 2012
Interdisciplinary Symposium Engineering Sciences Representative The Forensic Engineering Method
Chicago, IL presenting 2011
Analysis of Cutaneous/Cortical Head, Extremity and Thoracic Trauma Associated with Glass Impact in Automotive, Industrial and
Residential/Commercial Building Construction Applications Utilizing the Forensic Engineering Method
American Academy of Forensic Sciences Author, Chicago, IL presenting 2011
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) E30.08 2003-2008 E58 2009-present
Organized in 1898, ASTM International is one of the largest voluntary standards developing organizations in the world,
representing producers, users, consumers, government and academia from over 100 countries, publishing technical
documents that are a basis for manufacturing, management, procurement, codes and regulations.
National Forensic Engineering Task Force. Twelve engineers nationally selected to advise and direct future engineering
standards.
Editor, Standard Guide for the Practice of Forensic Engineering, ASTM 2008, contributing 2009 to present
Chairman BioMedical Engineering, International E-30 Technical Standard Guides and Practices, ASTM 2003, 2004
Forensic Engineering Analysis of Golf Course, Golf Related Trauma
National Academy of Forensic Engineers, Tuscon, AZ presenting 2011
Journal of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers projected 2011-2012
Forensic Engineering and the Scientific Method
National Academy of Forensic Engineers, Orlando, FL 2010
Journal of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers 2010-2011 pending
Biomedical/Biomechanical Analysis of Injury/Trauma Reported for Restrained and Un-Restrained Adult and Pediatric
Occupants Involved in Vehicular Rollover Crashes: A Nominal and Statistical Approach
American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Seattle, WA 2010
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Research, Committees and Publications continued
BioMedical Engineering/Biomechanics Track Chairman, American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Meeting,
Engineering Sciences Section, Seattle, WA 2010
Forensic Engineering Analysis of Industrial and Heavy Equipment Trauma Causation
American Academy of Forensic Sciences YSYF Author/Speaker Denver, CO 2009
Accident Reconstruction Committee Correspondent, National Academy of Forensic Engineering 2009
International Symposium on Peer Reviewing
American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Engineering Sciences Representative 2009
Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN), Crash Database Input Review
University of Michigan Research Guest, Ann Arbor, MI 2008
Hydrodynamic and BioMedical Engineering Factors in Propeller Contact Injury
American Academy of Forensic Sciences Author/Speaker, Washington, D.C. 2008
Forensic Engineering Practice Committee, Guidelines for the P.E. as a Forensic Engineer
National Academy of Forensic Engineers 2007-2008
Forensic BioMedical Engineering Experimentation and Modeling
National Academy of Forensic Engineers Speaker, Ponte Vedra, FL 2007
Journal of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers 2007
Scientific Program Chairman, Head and Brain Trauma Interdisciplinary Symposium
BioMedical Engineering Perspective of Head and Brain Trauma
American Academy of Forensic Sciences Author/Speaker, San Antonio, TX 2007
Variations in Evidentiary Standards and Engineering Standards Analysis
American Academy of Forensic Sciences Author/Speaker with Joe S. Cecil, Ph.D., J.D., Judicial Research Council,
Washington, D.C., Seattle, WA 2006
Biomedical Engineering Analysis of Brain Injury, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Chicago 2006
Forensic Engineering Analysis of Pedestrian Trauma Using BioMedical and Accident Reconstruction Methods
National Academy of Forensic Engineers Co-Speaker, Boston, MA 2006
Journal of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers 2006
Forensic Engineering Science, the Application of Applied Scientific Principals to the Investigation, Analysis and
Reconstruction of Physical Events
American Academy of Forensic Sciences YFSF Author/Speaker, Seattle, WA 2006
Chairman of Engineering Sciences Section, American Academy of Forensic Science, including: mechanical, electrical, civil,
biomedical, materials, environmental and physics 2005-2006
Co-Chairman American Academy of Forensic Sciences Engineering Sciences Technical Program 2005-2006
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Research, Committees and Publications continued
Forensic Engineering Analysis of Head Impacts within a Vehicle Subject to Side Impact
National Academy of Forensic Engineers Speaker, San Diego, CA 2005
Journal of the National Academy of Engineers 2005
Continuing Education/Membership Committee, American Academy of Forensic Sciences 2005-2006
Tutorial and Panel on Engineering Evidence and Lay Testimony
American Academy of Forensic Sciences Author/Speaker, New Orleans, LA 2005
American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Engineering Section, Awards Committee 2000-2002, 2003-2004; Ethics Chairman
2004-2005
Technical Program BioMedical Engineering Tract Chairman, American Academy of Forensic Science, Dallas, TX 2004
Experimental Analysis of Pediatric Brain Injury Causation Utilizing Scientifically Proven Quantitative Measures
International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition Co-Author, Anaheim, CA 2004
Decoupling of Lagrangian Equations of Motion to Improve Computational Efficiency and Application to Multi-Body
Constrained BioMedical Engineering Systems
American Academy of Forensic Sciences Author/Speaker, Dallas, TX 2004
Head Impact by Golf Ball: Digital Data Acquisition and Analysis Compared to Alternative Methodologies American
Academy of Forensic Sciences Author/Speaker, Dallas, TX 2004
Accident Reconstruction of 14-Passenger Catastrophic Rollover and Analysis of How Occupant Restraints Could Have
Prevented Five Fatalities and Four Serious/Severe Traumas Including Analysis of Pediatric Restraint Usage
American Academy of Forensic Sciences Author/Speaker, Dallas, TX 2004
BioMedical Engineering: Physical Evidence as the Silent Witness
American Academy of Forensic Sciences SA Author/Speaker, Dallas, TX 2004
Faculty, Student Section American Academy of Forensic Sciences
An international, multi-disciplinary faculty that provides leadership and mentoring to aspiring forensic scientists with the
objective of promoting education in forensic science.
2011 Chicago, IL pending
2010 Seattle, WA
2009 Denver, CO
2008 Washington, D.C.
2007 San Antonio, TX
2006 Seattle, WA
2005 New Orleans, LA
2004 Dallas, TX
2003 Chicago, IL
Orthopedic Implant Failure: Analysis of Internal Fixation Failure of a Three-Dimensional Joint
American Academy of Forensic Sciences Author/ Speaker, Reno, NV 2000
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Research, Committees and Publications continued
BioMedical Assessment of Rollover Collisions
Society of Automotive Engineers Topical Technical Workshop (TOPTEC) Author/Speaker
San Diego, CA 1999
American Back Society, Clinical Committee, Neurological Diseases and Injuries 1998
Analysis of Flying Harness System
American Academy of Forensic Sciences Author/Speaker, San Francisco, CA 1998
Co-Established Trauma Research Group, University of California at Davis Medical Center 1996
Human Biomechanics & Simulation Standards Committee, Society of Automotive Engineers 1996
Chairman of Technical Program: Annual Articulated Total Body User s Group
Hosted conference with Wright Patterson Air Force personnel, Phoenix, AZ February 1996
Articulated Total Body Model User s Group Executive Committee 1995-1996
Full Scale Automotive Crash Testing at CalTrans Highway Patrol High Speed Test Track, CalTrans Materials, Engineering and
Testing Services Volunteer, Structural Materials Branch, West Sacramento, CA 1992-1996
Mathematical Modeling & Human Body Simulation, Research Guest, Armstrong Laboratories
Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH 1995
The Relationship Between Mass and Acceleration for Impacts on Padded Surfaces
Biomechanical differences of varied surface properties in the prevention of head injury in adults and children.
Journal of Biomechanics, Co-Author 1994
Ford Motor Company Side Air Bag Full-Scale Sled Cadaver Testing
Wayne State University, Bioengineering Center, Detroit, MI 1994
Seminars, Symposia and Lectures
Aquatic Trauma: Proper Interpretation of Physical Evidence from Watercraft
Society of Forensic Engineers and Scientists Author/Speaker, Monterey, CA 2008
Probability Quantification of Diffuse Trauma to the Brain and Multidisciplinary Analysis of Industrial Loader Fatalities
Society of Forensic Engineers and Scientists Author/Speaker, Incline Village, NV 2006
BioMedical Engineering Analysis of Brain Injury
Registered Nurse Education Author/Speaker, Walnut Creek, CA 2006
Non-Impact Head Injuries
Society of Forensic Engineers and Scientists Author/Speaker, San Jose, CA 2005
Cranial Trauma Quantification on the Basis of Hertzian Contact Theory
Invitation by the Turkish Government, declined invitation due to Iraqi conflict 2003
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Seminars, Symposia and Lectures continued
Trauma Causation of a Survivable Open Book Fracture/Crush to the Pelvis
Society of Forensic Engineers and Scientists Author/Speaker, Solvang, CA 2003
Brain Protection in Helmet Analysis, and Causal Assessment of Slip and Fall Trauma
Sacramento Area Chapter of Nurses Author/Speaker, Sacramento, CA 2003
Technical Analyses and Report Writing
Society of Forensic Engineers and Scientists Author/Speaker, Oakland, CA 2003
Etiology of Peripheral Neuropathies
Society of Forensic Engineers and Scientists Author/Speaker, Yosemite, CA 2000
Causation of Lumbar Spine Pathology
Society of Forensic Engineers and Scientists Author/Speaker, Yosemite, CA 2000
Brain Injury Etiology
Northern California Fraud Investigators Association Conference Author/Speaker, Monterey, CA 2000
Brain Injury Biomechanics
"Crash Testing with Dummies"
Northern California Trauma Conference for trauma surgeons and other health care providers Author/Speaker, Sacramento,
CA 1999
Head Trauma
Northern California Trauma Conference for trauma surgeons and other health care providers Author/Speaker, Sacramento,
CA 1998
Biomechanics of Side Impact Trauma
Society of Forensic Engineers & Scientists Author/Speaker, Carmel, CA 1997
Head Trauma and Brain Injury
Forensic Pathology Department, Sacramento County Coroner s Office Lecturer, Sacramento, CA 1993
Occupant Restraint Technology and Injury Assessment Testing with the Hybrid III Dummy
University of California, Davis, CA 1992-1993
BioMedical and Mechanical Consulting Experience
BioMedical Forensics
Engineering and Scientific Consulting, BioMedical and Mechanical Applied Science
Mechanism & Causation of Injury, Impact Biomechanics, Accident Reconstruction 2003-present
L.L. Liptai BioMedical Engineering
BioMedical and Mechanical Applied Science, Product Liability and Accident Reconstruction 1996-2003
Technical Consultant with Anatomist Lawrence M. Elson, Ph.D.
Injury Causation, Mechanics of Injury, BioMedical Engineering, Anatomical Basis of Medicine/Surgery 1996-1998
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BioMedical and Mechanical Consulting Experience continued
Liptai Engineering
BioMedical and Mechanical Applied Science, Accident Reconstruction, Product Liability 1983-1996
Bechtel Control Systems, Engineering Intern 1982-1983
Professional Associations Past and Present
Advanced Highway Maintenance Construction Technology Research via doctoral research advisor 1995-1997
American Academy of Forensic Sciences
American Back Society
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
American Society of Safety Engineers
American Society of Testing and Materials
Articulated Total Body User s Group
Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine
International Board of Forensic Engineering Sciences
National Academy of Forensic Engineers Correspondent
Society of Automotive Engineers
Society of Forensic Engineers and Scientists
Tau Beta Pi ~ National Engineering Honor Society
UCD Medical Center Orthopedic Research via qualifying committee faculty/research group director 1995-1996
Continuing Education and Professional Development
Segway Dynamic Stabilization and Inertial Sensing Controls Research 2010
Forensic Engineering Seminars, National Academy of Forensic Engineers Jan/July 2005, Jan/July 2006, July 2008, Jan 2009,
Jan 2010
Occupant and Vehicle Kinematics in Rollovers Professional Development Program
Society of Automotive Engineers, Detroit, MI 2008
Certification: Boating Course Approved by the National Association of State Boating Law Administration and Recognized by
the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary 2008
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Continuing Education and Professional Development continued
Certification: Motorcycle Training Approved by the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol 2007
All Terrain Vehicle Safety Institute 2007
Crash Data Retrieval Specialist Certification
Vetronix Crash Data Retrieval (CDR) System April 2003
Occupant Protection Emerging Topics and Technologies (TOPTEC)
Tempe, AZ May 1998
Side Impact Design Considerations for Safer Vehicles
Society of Automotive Engineers, Tempe, AZ May 1998
Diagnosis & Treatment of Neck and Back Pain: Integrated Approach
Stanford University School of Medicine and American Back Society, San Francisco, CA December 1997
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology: Basic Forensic Pathology
Department of the Army, Center for Advanced Medical Education, Rockville, MD October 1997
High Speed Rear Impact
Society of Automotive Engineers, Tempe, AZ October 1997
Airbag Design & Performance
Society of Automotive Engineers, Costa Mesa, CA August 1997
Biomechanics of Impact Trauma
Associated for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, Chicago, IL December 1996
The Biomechanics of Impact and Its Relationship to Crash Performance Standards
Chicago, IL 1996
Articulated Total Body Model Colloquium
Phoenix, AZ 1996
Dayton, OH 1995
Injuries, Anatomy, Biomechanics & Federal Regulations
Irvine, CA 1995
Rear Impact Collision Topics and Technologies (TOPTEC)
Irvine, CA 1994
Head and Neck Injury Symposium
Troy, MI September 1994
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