Patrick Cooper, P.E., has over 35 years of experience in the design, specification, maintenance and troubleshooting of process equipment within the petrochemical industry. He has held lead project engineering roles on several mega onshore and offshore oil and gas projects in North America, while at Shell. He provided machinery technical support to the downstream refining and chemical plants along the gulf coast. His upstream experience focused on facility and production design of offshore floating production facilities along with onshore heavy oil facilities. During his career at Shell, he developed and delivered several technical training courses for new technical professionals, globally.
Patrick brings his knowledge and experience of bolting and flange design to the classroom to share design and maintenance practices for achieving flange tightness after maintenance turnarounds and commissioning/startup of new production facilities. He is an adjunct instructor at Fletcher Technical Community College, delivering oil and gas production/refining courses. He has been a member of ASME for 37 years and serves on the University of Louisiana Mechanical Engineering Industry Advisory Board, advising university staff on research and curriculum to address industry’s technical needs.
John D. Lay is the Director of Training for Hytorc, the largest manufacturer of hydraulic bolting tools, responsible for North and South America. He has been involved in the teaching of both the theoretical and practical aspects of heavy industrial bolting since 2003 and has been involved in corporate training for over 20 years. John has assisted in the development of several multimedia courses that have been adopted as teaching standards for union apprentice programs in the millwright and pipefitter trades across North America. He is an Affiliate Member of ASME and brings a practical view of complex problems that can be understood by workers and non-engineers, yet withstands the rigors of quantitative review. He is a member of the ASME Bolting Specialist Qualification Program Advisory Committee. John is also an adjunct faculty member at Texas A&M University Engineering Extension Service, for which he teaches the OSHA #7110 - Safe Bolting: Principles & Practices course.
Jack Hawkins, P.E., has over 30 years of experience, primarily in technical roles of stress analysis and mechanical design of equipment and components. While employed by engineering service providers, he specialized in stress analysis and code compliance of piping and pressure systems in the petrochemical industry. Jack’s piping and pressure vessel work includes fitness-for-service (FFS) assessments of damaged equipment, design by analysis, troubleshooting and analysis of bolted flange joint connections, expansion joint design and analysis, and fire damage assessment of piping and equipment. He has extensive experience in FEA analysis and has performed numerous finite element analyses of bolted connections, with and without gaskets. Jack has served on the LSU (Louisiana State University) Capstone Review panel for over 20 years and as an alumni advisor for multiple LSU mechanical engineering Capstone projects.
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