Ms. Kennedy's expertise is in the discipline of mechanical engineering, including the fields of mechanical design and the mechanical behavior of materials. Ms. Kennedy has attained specialized competence in machine guarding, fall protection, and industrial and occupational safety. Throughout her career, Ms. Kennedy has used her expertise in mechanical engineering to solve a broad range of problems related to failure analysis and prevention, vehicle accident investigation and reconstruction, and product design and development. She has performed failure investigations of many different components and equipment including: consumer products, automobiles, amusement park rides, and power plant components such as reactor vessels, steam generators, boilers, and turbines. Ms. Kennedy’s work in the area of mechanical behavior of materials addresses many topics including fatigue, erosion, creep, and stress corrosion. Her expertise also covers fracture mechanics analysis, statistical modeling of material data, and remaining life assessments.
Ms. Kennedy has received the Safety and Health Specialist Certificates in Construction Industry and General Industry from the OSHA Training Institute Education Center at Keene State College, and is authorized to teach the 10- and 30-hour Outreach Courses in OSHA’s Construction Safety and Health Standards. She is also a Certified Safety Professional.
Prior to joining Exponent, Ms. Kennedy worked for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation as an Engineer in the Plant Engineering Division.