About Me – The Forensic Engineer

Tom McCauley Forensic Electrical Engineer

Tom McCauley
Forensic Electrical                         Engineer

I’m the Director of Electrical Engineering at Consolidated Consulting Corporation, a forensic engineering company, located in Vero Beach, Florida. I have more than 40 years of electrical engineering experience in senior technical and managerial positions in major manufacturing and consulting organizations in the US and Europe. This has included extensive forensic electrical engineering analysis of electrical equipment failures, design process failures, and electrical accidents in electrical utility and industrial facilities.My engineering and analytical experiences have included short circuit studies, load flow studies, transient stability studies and the analysis of numerous electrical equipment and electrical design process failures.

The design and analysis of electrical distribution systems for utility generating stations and industrial facilities have taught me how to investigate failures in the equipment and design of such systems.

I have been providing electrical consulting services to attorneys and insurance companies since 2001 in areas involving motors, electrical generators, distribution lines, high voltage transmission lines, low voltage and high voltage insulated cables.

As a result of providing expert testimony before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in defense of the electrical design of the electrical systems of nuclear power plants, I understand how to answer questions without broadening the area of inquiry.

I have published a number of articles about various aspects of forensic engineering.