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Motor Vehicle Fire Investigation
Computer-Based Training

Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowledge the support and funding of Motor Vehicle Fire Research Institute and the support of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for the execution of the computer-based training program. We would like to thank Dr. Kennerly Digges, Dr. Rhoads Stephenson, and the staff of the NHTSA for their suggestions and assistance with the project.

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Authors

Mr. Leland Shields has been an independent consultant with 21 years experience investigating collision and non-collision motor vehicle fires. He has also researched vehicle fires for the Washington State Transportation Center at the University of Washington. Mr. Shields is currently the president of Leland E. Shields, Incorporated in Seattle, Washington. His experience includes numerous inspections to determine the causes of fires, collisions, and injuries for incidents involving passenger cars, light trucks and recreational vehicles. He has also designed and executed instrumented vehicle-fire test programs to define specific conditions of fire initiation, propagation and mitigation. Mr. Shields has managed recall investigations to determine the root causes of particular vehicle models with fire-related issues including increased tendency to have non-collision fires. Mr. Shields has bachelors and masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Robert Scheibe, P.E., is an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington, a researcher for the Washington State Transportation Center, and a consulting engineer with GT Engineering in Redmond, Washington. For the past 23 years, he has investigated and been an expert witness for numerous accidents and fires involving vehicles and equipment, and has experience in the analysis of vehicle and product safety from the standpoint of research, design and maintenance. Dr. Scheibe has bachelors and masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington.

Contact
If you would like to report a problem with program functionality, or have suggestions for additional resources to include, please send email to: admin@vehiclefireinvestigation.com