Anthony D’Angelo, Jr. is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of New Jersey and holds a B.S. and an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a MBA from Rutgers University. He retired after 39 years of professional experience in government and industry conducting structural, thermal, and reliability analyses and authored or co-authored nine papers in the area of reliability-based design analysis and systems engineering. The author presently is conducting research, pursuing a Ph.D. in systems engineering from Colorado State University, on developing a reliability-risk modeling-based trade study tool. In addition, he is a full-time instructor at Raritan Valley Community College and has taught numerous courses in machine design, statics, dynamics, mechanics of materials, mechanisms, and material science.