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Benjamin
D. Tice P.E. is the proprietor of Tice Engineering. He has over 20 years of experience
in the field of mechanical engineering; Including assignments in the areas of
commercial, research and medical facilities, factory automation and
commercial and sport diving. Mr. Tice is a graduate of The University of
Tennessee with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and is
registered as a Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia and a
member of the ASME.
Mr Tice’s work includes
a high level of experience in all phases of the project completion process.
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Since
1997, Tice Engineering has provided engineering work for various customers.
Some of these projects are listed here:
- Complete mechanical and electrical design
and detail drawings for several computer controlled breathing machines.
- Engineering site surveys of medical and
research hyperbaric facilities.
- Failure analysis of a bicycle suspension
fork failure.
- Engineering verification of pressure vessel
window calculations based on pressure vessel codes.
- Design of electrical connectors for
instrumentation for use in hyperbaric chambers.
- Re-tool design of several types of
manufacturing machines.
- Mechanical design of fire suppression
systems for several hyperbaric facilities.
- Several detailed designs of electronic
enclosures.
- Several design modifications to plastics
processing lines.
- Design of several hyperbaric door-handling
mechanisms.
- Complete design of an intercom system
including PC board design.
- Various proprietary machine design projects.
As a staff
engineer for private companies, Mr. Tice has 14 years of experience doing
engineering design, detailed machine design, product testing and R&D. The
following are some of the projects completed during this time:
- Design and fabrication of several machines
for the automated assembly of deodorant stick components
- Design and fabrication of automation
machines for a variety of proprietary products.
- Design and fabrication of an automated
sponge packaging machine.
- Design and fabrication of an automated cap
closing machine.
- Design and fabrication of a computer
controlled breathing simulator.
- Design and fabrication of a computer
controlled facility for fish research.
- Project management for a refurbishment
project of an environmental control chamber.
- Operation of a diving system testing
laboratory. Work included fully instrumented breathing performance
testing of diving and life support equipment as well as manned testing.
- Detailed engineering design of parts for a
commercial diving helmet system.
- Forensic analysis of diving accidents.
Services
offered:
- Complete design of automation and testing
machines.
- Detailed design of machine upgrades.
- Machine problem solving.
- Computer aided design.
- Design and application of computer data
acquisition and control systems.
- Failure analysis.
- Prototype development.
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