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Dr. Subodh Medhekar is a Principal Engineer in Exponent’s Mechanical Engineering and Materials/Metallurgy practice. Dr. Medhekar’s practice focuses on addressing risk and reliability issues. Dr. Medhekar specializes in evaluating technologies and manufacturing operations and reviewing process/product designs for the purpose of proactive reduction of failures and hazards. He conducts FMEA PHA HAZOP MTBF reliability root cause fault tree event tree and uncertainty analyses.
Over the last 10 years Dr. Medhekar has provided risk assessment and management consulting services to various Automotive OEM’s and Tier 1 suppliers Semiconductor Medical and Biomedical Chemical/Petrochemical Nuclear Power and various other Manufacturing facilities. He has authored or coauthored more than 50 technical publications/reports and presented a number of papers and short courses with topics ranging from performing complex reliability investigations identifying and managing risks under PSM/OSHA Act practical FMEAs for product design performing risk and reliability assessments for automotive semiconductor biomedical and process industries pipeline risk assessments fault tree analysis source term modeling and Bayesian uncertainty analysis.
Dr. Medhekar has held a variety of consulting and engineering positions namely with companies that include PLG Inc. the Center for Risk Studies and Safety in Santa Barbara California Indian Oil Refinery in Baroda India and Union Carbide in Thane India. Dr. Medhekar holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara. | 