Vishu H. Shah is a graduate of University of Massachusetts Lowell with bachelor’s and masters degrees in plastics engineering. He is also an author of Handbook of Plastics Testing and Failure Analysis, an SPE-sponsored book used as a text in many universities.

An active member of SPE, Mr. Shah has spent more than 30 years in the plastics industry, chiefly as a plastics engineer in charge of material, product, and process development; technical services; compounding operations; and test facilities. As a president and co-founder of a custom injection molding business for eighteen years, he was responsible for the entire manufacturing operation. As a consultant and expert witness, he has worked extensively with companies throughout the world and with many law firms in the area of failure analysis. He has conducted seminars and short courses on variety of subjects for supervisors, engineers, purchasing agents, and sales and marketing personnel, and has taught at the current Plastics Engineering Certificate Program at Cal-Poly Pomona.