
Dinu is a Lead Engineer with more than 30 years experience in the industry, including more than 23 years in Mechanical, Materials, Product, and Equipment Failure Investigations. Dinu has been the lead investigator on more than 2,500 complex and multidisciplinary investigations in those fields for the insurance industry, risk managers, law firms, manufacturing companies, and private clients. Dinu is a Registered Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario, is designated as a Consulting Engineer, and has been qualified as an expert witness in the Court of King’s Bench of Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Dinu has participated in 23 multi-national projects which resulted in the development of new materials and processes. He has taught at undergraduate and graduate levels on materials science and engineering and on failure analysis, and is an active mentor for engineers in training. Dinu is a member of the American Society for Metals (ASM International), American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP, formerly known as NACE, National Association of Corrosion Engineers). Throughout his career, Dinu has delivered both technical papers and presentations at several international conferences on materials science and engineering.
Dinu’s experience and expertise is in a variety of complex metallic and non-metallic (plastic) materials/mechanical failures, mechanical systems and equipment failures, product liability, corrosion, oil spills, residential and commercial plumbing systems and appliances failures, personal injuries associated with product failures, break and entries, insurance fraud, and sprinkler system failures.
Involved in more than 2,500 failure analysis investigations:
Qualified as an expert witness in the Court of King’s Bench of Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
2008 to Present
Senior Consulting Forensic Engineer, Materials Engineering, Origin and Cause
Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
2007
Metallurgical Engineer, Bodycote Testing Group Canada, Inc.
Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
2003 to 2006
Project Engineer, Bodycote Testing Group Canada, Inc.
Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
2002
Project Engineer (Contract), ARCiNA LLC, State College
Pennsylvania, USA
1999 to 2001
Development Engineer, Corporate Engineering Group, IonBond Inc., ISO 9000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1997 to 1999
Associate Researcher/Teaching Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1993 to 1996
Associate Researcher/Teaching Assistant, Technical University Cluj-Napoca, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Cluj-Napoca, Romania