Meet Our Staff Members
	Dr. B. Lynn Ferguson is President and founder of DCT. He has a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Drexel University. His areas of expertise include metallurgical engineering, powder metallurgy, forging preform design, structure/property relations, and finite element analysis.
			Deformation Control Technology is an engineering firm specializing in metalworking and heat treat simulation, FEA, and computer-based analysis. Specializing in thermal and deformation processes, powder metal consolidation, thermal barrier coatings, burner rig simulation, finite element analysis, failure analysis, prediction of distortion and residual stress in heat treated components
		Andrew M. Freborg is a Metallurgical Engineer from IIT. Formerly a Senior Process Metallurgist at Republic Engineered Steels, his background is in continuous casting and ingot casting of steel and in primary metal production. At DCT he has headed efforts in simulation of thermal barrier coatings and been an active user of our DANTE heat treatment simulation software.
	Dr. Zhichao (Charlie) Li has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Wright State University, and Bachelor and Master Degrees in Metal-forming from Harbin Institute of Technology. He has a strong background in computer analysis of metalforming and heat treat processes.