George Libertiny
George Libertiny Ph.D. U.S. is a retired mechanical engineer. He was a university professor and research engineer throughout his active life. He also founded Design and Manufacturing Defect Consultants, a firm investigating industrial accidents. He testified at many product liability trials as expert witness. Published more than hundred articles in the mechanical engineering field. Was active member of ASME and SAE, chairing many sessions at national and international meetings. Libertiny received a number of honors from these societies. He is also an inventor and received a US. Patent for a measuring transducer.
In addition to his engineering activities, he wrote and publishes fictions and poems. He is also a painter and sculptured a number of statues. Libertiny received recognitions for a number of his works.
He is married to Anna Libertiny and has two children: Thomas Libertiny (BS. Mechanical Engineering and MBA) and Karen Libertiny Ludden (BA. and JD. ). He also has tow grandchildren: Andrew and Daniel, school children.
Early life
Libertiny was born in Szolnok Hungary, in 1934. He was a senior student at the University of Technical Sciences in Budapest at the time of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He participated in the revolution as an armed ‘nemzetor’. After the revolution collapsed, he married and escaped to Austria where he received a Ford Foundation Scholarship to complete his education in Glasgow, Scotland. After graduating with honors at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow he worked as a mechanical engineer for the English Electric Company in Leicester, England. He became a British citizen. He went back to graduate school and received his PhD, in 1963. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1963 and became an U.S, citizen.
Career
He became an assistant professor and later associate professor of mechanical engineering, at the University of Miami, Miami, Florida. He moved to Chicago in 1968 where he worked as an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He accepted an appointment from Ford Motor Company in 1971, and worked for them as senior research engineer and later as a management role employee. At the same time, Libertiny lectured on the adjunct faculty of the University of Michigan and made it up to the rank of full Professor. He also funded a consulting company, Design and Manufacturing Defect Consultants, investigating non-automotive related industrial accident. He testified a large number of times as an expert witness on product liability related cases. Libertiny was an also working as a volunteer inspector for ECPD, accrediting Universities. Due to ill health, he retired in 1996.