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    Louis F. Bilancia

    Louis F. Bilancia, P.E.

    Senior Managing Consultant

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    Mr. Louis Bilancia is an electrical engineer with 14 years of experience in biomedical design of implanted pacemakers and defibrillators, with 11 years in the design and programming of industrial laser control, lumber sorting, and precision electronic instrumentation. He specializes in fire origin and cause evaluations, including those where electrical activity may have been involved.

    In addition, he has been an adjunct professor at Portland State University for four terms, as well as an instructor for several classes to the International Association of Arson Investigators (lAAI) community in electrical evidence collection and the scientific method. Mr. Bilancia has performed nearly 600 fire and electrical investigations.

    Publications

    • Electrical Fire Patterns Investigation, International Symposium on Product Compliance Engineering, December 2021
    • Arson Under The Christmas Tree, International Symposium on Product Compliance Engineering, May 2019
    • Illumination Caused Permanent Bodily Injury, Photons Not Taken Lightly, International Symposium on Product Compliance Engineering, May 2019
    • Metalized Film Capacitors as Fire Pattern, International Symposium on Product Compliance Engineering, January 2018
    • Fire Scene Reconstruction, 3rd Ed., Contributing Author, January 2016
    • Safe Product Design Forensic Engineering and Asimov's Laws of Robotics, International Symposium on Product Compliance Engineering, May 2014
    • Computer Models in Fire Analysis: The Illusion of Scientific Accuracy, Fire and Litigation Conference, January 2014
    • The Beelzebub Zone: Rare But Predictable Failure Conditions, International Symposium on Product Compliance Engineering, May 2012
    • Kirk's Fire Investigation, 7th Edition, Contributing Author, January 2012
    • Technical Review and Analysis, California Conference of Arson Investigators, January 2011
    • See CV for further publications

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