Dr Stuart Kerr
TAE - President, North American Operations

Dr Kerr brings to TAE a wide and varying engineering background. A Naval Architect by trade, Dr Kerr has worked within a number of industries including shipbuilding, onshore and offshore oil & natural gas, automotive, aerospace, medical devices, and IT. Dr Kerr has held positions with companies including MSC Software, MSX International, and Saint John Shipbuilding Ltd. Dr Kerr has also worked as a consultant on a number of engineering contracts while attending the University College London (UK) as a Post Doctorate Fellow.

Dr Kerr has extensive experience with frequency domain and time domain fatigue, dynamics, and vibration analysis. He was the primary contributor to the creation of MSC.Fatigue - WHEELS module and also maintains numerous business contacts within the Automotive and Aerospace sectors.

After serving a number of years in the Canadian Military, Dr Kerr completed his BSc in Naval Architectural from Memorial University (NFLD, Canada) in 1989. Four years later, Dr Kerr moved to London to complete an MSc in Subsea and Offshore Engineering Structures from University College London (UK) in 1994. While at UCL, Dr Kerr also completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 1999; specializing in the human induced vibration loading on slender staircase structures.

Dr Neil WM Bishop
TAE - Vice President, European /Asian Operations
RLD - Founder / Director

Dr Bishop is the Founder of Random Loading and Design and continues to provide leadership and direction to that company as well as supporting TAE. Dr Bishop formed RLD in 1993 and has been serving the engineering needs of Europe for over 10 years.

Besides his extensive consultancy experience, Dr Bishop also has ten years combined lecturing experience from the University of Sheffield (UK) and the University College London (UK). As an academic, Dr Bishop supervised six PhD students in the fields of vibration fatigue and dynamics. Two students specifically focused on nonlinear response problems while the remaining four worked on topics relating to nonlinear structural analysis.

Dr Bishop has managed various UK and European funded research projects and has also served on a UK government nonlinear mathematics committee. He recent activities have concentrated on industrial implementation of vibration fatigue theory, mainly through the use of FE analysis. Dr Bishop was also the author of the recent NAFEMS sponsored textbook "FE Based Fatigue" and is currently involved in a European wide FENET project. Dr Bishop maintains numerous business contacts within the Aerospace industry and with major FE Fatigue vendors including MSC.Software and nCode International.

Dr Bishop completed his BSc in Civil Engineering from Warick University (UK) in 1984. While at Warick, Dr Bishop also completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering 1988; specializing in new frequency domain fatigue techniques.

TAE/RLD Consultants

hold a variety of positions in companies throughout the United States and Europe.

These consultants are called on to assist TAE/RLD as the need arises.