Des Penny

Professional Information

Education

• Ph.D., Civil Engineering, 1975, University of Utah.
• M.Sc. Mathematical Physics, 1972, First Class Honors, University College Cork, Ireland.
• B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematical Physics, First Class Honors, 1971, University College Cork, Ireland.
• Licensed: State of Utah, Registered Professional Engineer, 1984-present
• State of Texas, Registered Professional Engineer, 1981-1984
• Appointed as an Accredited Mathematica Trainer by Wolfram Research, April, 1999.

My Recently Published Papers:

• Rollover of Sport Utility Vehicles (pdf file)
  (Published  in "The Physics Teacher", February 2004)
• Preprint of the Hall and Magraw paper based on my work.  This paper tests my equations in the lab:
  Modeling Vehicle Rollover - Hall and Magraw (pdf file)
  (Published  in "The Physics Teacher", October 2005)
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) website:
  http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/
• Rollover ratings for your car:
  http://www.safercar.gov/
• A Nonuniform Circular-Motion Experiment (pdf file)
  (Published  in "The Physics Teacher", November 2000.)
• Scanned Image of paper (Actual printed version - this has minor changes from pdf file.):
  Page 1; Page 2; Page 3; Page 4; Page 5