Jason D. Stigge, P.E.

Jason D. Stigge is a Licensed Professional Mechanical Engineer (P.E.) and a Senior Consultant with Engineering Systems Inc. (ESi). Following six years of U.S. Navy nuclear propulsion service, Mr. Stigge earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nebraska. Mr. Stigge routinely works within the industrial, insurance, and legal industries. He has provided trial and deposition testimony on numerous occasions.

Mr. Stigge has over 20 years of broad experience in mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems, including design, operations, maintenance, and repair, and more than ten years of experience conducting complex failure investigations. His experience includes engineering investigations and reconstructions of automobile & truck accidents, including extraction & analysis of vehicle event data recorders (EDR), heavy truck & agricultural engine failures, industrial machinery & heavy equipment failures, and accidents related to industrial trucks, man lifts, earth moving equipment, elevators, cranes, pipeline failure evaluations, manufacturing & processing equipment, such as material handling equipment, conveyors, valves, pumps, compressors, turbines, steam boilers, heat exchangers, tanks, filters, flanges, gasketed joints, wind turbine gear boxes, gas turbine components, and instrumentation and control systems. Additionally, Mr. Stigge has experience in intellectual property (IP) disputes and has provided analyses & testimony on invalidity & infringement.

At ESi’s Omaha location, Mr. Stigge performs low speed automotive stiffness characterization testing, which recreates vehicle collision damages to estimate the dynamic conditions and results of low-speed automotive collisions.

Mr. Stigge has vast experience with scene, vehicle, equipment & building inspections, photo documentation, evidence collection, generation of computer-aided models, and analysis of data & file material, as well as fixture design, component & materials testing, and laboratory analyses & procedures including optical microscopy, metallography, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM).