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Protection Engineering Consultants will again offer our foundational Blast Resistant and Anti-Terrorism Design Short Course in San Antonio in the Fall of 2012. The course, updated to include changes in DoD and ISC Criteria, will be taught at a venue on the San Antonio Riverwalk and will include the hands on computer approaches and shock tube demonstration popular with previous attendees. Please check for further updates on our Training page.
Baktosh (Tosh) Edrisi has joined Protection Engineering Consultants as an Associate Mechanical Engineer. Tosh completed his education at the University of Texas San Antonio in December of 2011 and joins us after several years as an undergraduate and graduate intern. Tosh brings mechanical design and analysis capabilities to PEC as well as significant programming and code development experience. Tosh will primarily support ongoing research projects at PEC and will continue to support SBEDS and SBEDS-W development in support of PEC Sr. Principal Dr. Chuck Oswald. We are excited to have Tosh with us full time.
Dr. Peter Votruba-Drzal has elected to leave Protection Engineering Consultants to return to industry in the capacity of materials researcher and developer in the elastomer, eyewear, and specialty materials fields. Our association with Peter has been valuable and mutually beneficial and we will miss his collaborative and creative spirit. For inquiries related to PEC pursuits that have involved Peter, please contact Kirk Marchand, Managing Principal at PEC at kmarchand@protection-consultants.com, or 512.380.1988x1. Peter can be reached in days ahead at drzalpeter@gmail.com or 240-449-9897.
In recognition of his project and task leadership skills and emerging project development responsibilities, LJ Nelson has been promoted to Sr. Associate Engineer at PEC. LJ came to PEC after completing his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Texas A&M University and serving as an infantryman in the United States Marine Corps during Operation Iraqi Freedom II. LJ is now completing his master’s degree in structural engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio. LJ currently supports our vulnerability assessment and protective design activities. Contact LJ to learn more about our capabilities in those areas and to offer your congratulations.
Sr. Principal Edward Conrath at Protection Engineering Consultants is the leader of our current efforts in support of both NGO operations in Baghdad, Iraq and petrochemical support facility development in more remote areas of Iraq. Both of these customers are faced with the very real threat of aggressor attack with improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and tactical military ordnance (rockets, mortars and direct fire threats). Ed, with his PEC team, and in cooperation with Stone Security Engineering and bmk Engineering, provides vulnerability assessment services and protective design engineering guidance and details to support their activities. Please contact Ed Conrath for a description of our rapid assessment, retrofit and design services.