Professional Engineers
                 
               

Donald E. Wandling, P.E.  

Experience, expertise, and excellence are the fundamental set of principles by which Don Wandling established Wandling Engineering, P.C. in 1976. This set of principles form the cornerstone for the scientifically sound engineering services that the company provides.

   
Recognized nationally for his work, Don Wandling has over 40 years of experience in forensic engineering and consulting. He has testified as an expert in State and Federal Courts throughout the United States. He is recognized for applying the physical sciences, engineering, and human factors to not only accident investigations, but also to the design, evaluation, and safety analysis of machines and systems. Don has served the industry as a consultant in industrial and manufacturing operations, safety, machine guarding, OSHA, and product design.    
 

Don has industrial experience in design engineering, manufacturing engineering, and safety. As an engineer for John Deere, he held several positions in product design, methods and research. As a manufacturing engineer for Chamberlain Corporation, Don engineered production lines and equipment, was involved in special machinery design, die design, fixture design, hot and cold press operations, metal cutting machine line operations, machine guarding, and control and point of operation protection.

 
             
Prior to establishing Wandling Engineering, Don was a professor at Iowa State University in the Mechanical Engineering Department. Teaching courses in machine design, automatic controls, human factors, hydraulic systems, pneumatic systems, and system design, he demonstrated a clear talent for communication and a keen ability to educate. Don has lectured nationally on many topics, some of which are: hazard analysis, forensic engineering, and safety aspects of gas distribution systems. His research area was hydraulic systems, non-linear control systems, and automatic controls.
Don is a Registered Professional Engineer in the states of Iowa and Nebraska. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, and a Master of Science degree with a co-major in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University.

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