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Services
Balancing
Bearing Design and Troubleshooting
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Computer Aid Design (CAD)
Condition Assessment
Design Review
Diagnostic and Troubleshooting
Electromagnetic Analysis
Engineering and Scientific
Consulting
Equipment Appraisal & Due
Dilligence
Forensics and Failure
Anaysis
Instrumentation
Machinery Alignment
Materials Characterization
Numeric Modeling
Optical Alignment
Performance Testing
Power Systems Network
Reverse Engineering
Rotordynamics
Specification Development
Technical Education
Test and Inspection
Tribology & Lubrication
Vibration Analysis
Machinery
AC Motors / Generators
Bearings
Control Systems
DC Motors / Generators
Electric Winding and Electrical
Insulation Systems
Gas Turbines
Gears and Geared Drives
Generator/Motor Excitation
Systems Drives
Governors
Hydroelectric Generators
Hydroelectric Turbines
Instrumentation and Monitoring Systems
Laser and Optical Apparatus
Mine Hoists
Pump Storage
Steam Turbines
Variable Speed Drives
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Curriculum
Vitae
Lois
J. Gschwender, Ph.D.
Principal Scientist
POWER ENGINEERING
Irvine, California
Expert
in Chemistry, Lubricants and Polymers.
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WORK
EXPERIENCE |
Materials
and Manufacturing Directorate
WRIGHT LABORATORY
Research Materials Engineers (Lub) (DR-III)
Nonstructural Materials Branch
Nonmetallic Materials Division
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| EDUCATION |
B. S. Degree, Chemistry, Wright State University, 1973, Magna
Cum Laude
Graduate Course - Materials Engineering, University of Dayton,
Fall 1975, 3 credit hours.
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| ACHIEVEMENTS |
- Outstanding
Graduating Senior Chemistry Major, Wright State University
American Chemical Society Award, 1973
- 1986
Finalist, R. T. Schwartz Materials Laboratory Award for Outstanding
Materials Engineer
- 1989
Winner, R. T. Schwartz Materials Laboratory Award for Outstanding
Materials Engineer
- 1990
Winner Aeronautical Systems Division Federal Women's Program,
Woman of the Year Award in Science and Engineering
- Air
Force Chief of Staff Scientific Achievement Award, 1991, for
Nonflammable Hydraulic Fluid Development and Validation
- 1991
WISE - Women in Science and Engineering ASD winner, AFSC candidate
- 1991
Linda Taber Barbour Air Safety Award finalist
- 1995
Society of Automotive Engineers Document Sponsor Certificate
- 1995
Finalist Wright Laboratory Materials Directorate Award for
Engineering Expertise
- 1996
Finalist Wright Laboratory Materials Directorate R.T. Schwartz
Award for Outstanding Materials Engineer
- 1996
Wright Laboratory Finalist for the Lt Gen Thomas R. Ferguson
Award for Technology Transition to AFMC/ST
- 1998
Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Fellows
Award
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| SPECIALIZED
TRAINING |
Approximately
60 specialized training courses in analytical instrumentation
and career development
Level III certification in Acquisition Professional Development
Program
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| PATENTS |
- "High
Temperature (175C) Nonflammable Hydraulic Fluid Formulation,"
US 5,209,861, 11 May 1993.
- "Lubricity
Additive for High Temperature Gas Turbine Engine Oils," US 5,196,130,
23 Mar 1993.
- "Stability
Additive for Perfluoropolyalkylethers," US 5,302,760, 12 Apr 1994.
- "Perfluoroalkylether
Tertiary Alcohols," US 5,316,686, 31 May 94.
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| PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES AND SOCIETY AFFILIATIONS |
- American
Society of Lubrication Engineers - member
- Society
of Automotive Engineers - SAE Committee A6 - member, 1991 to present
A-6 Fluids Panel - member
- Member
of Editorial Board, Journal of Synthetic Lubrication, Leaf Coppin
Publishing Ltd, Kent, England, 1984 to present
- Associate
Editor, Tribology Transactions, Society of Tribologists and Lubrication
Engineers, Park Ridge, Illinois, 1990 to present
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| PRESENTATIONS
AND PUBLICATIONS |
Seventy-five
technical presentations and sixty-five technical publications
in refereed journals/books on hydraulic fluids, gas turbine engine
oils and dielectric coolants.
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