GMH Engineering Information

GMH Engineering was conceived by three friends who shared graduate student office space in the advanced thermodynamics lab at Brigham Young University (BYU). J. Gordon, Chuck Monson and Greg Heiner also shared a passion for the many facets of engineering and for the creative, hands-on processes of designing, building, testing, and analyzing machines. In January of 1988 the three fledgling engineers borrowed a bit of seed money from two of their fathers, formed a partnership and launched GMH Engineering. The company was incorporated a few months later. From the start GMH Engineering has been deeply involved in instrumentation, data acquisition, testing, and analysis. Given the backgrounds and early experiences of its founders, GMH Engineering became heavily involved in automotive crash testing and safety research. A need was soon recognized for an economical, crashworthy, onboard data acquisition system. The data acquisition technology of the time included a data logger track side, connected to onboard instrumentation through an electrical umbilical cable dragging on the ground. To solve the physical and electrical problems associated with dragging a lengthy umbilical cable, the DataBRICK was conceived and developed. Today, GMH Engineering is selling the third generation of this proven data acquisition system. In the early 1990’s GMH Engineering was retained to investigate an incident at a local amusement park - beginning an over two-decade involvement in testing and analyzing amusement ride dynamics. In order to improve the utility of the three-dimensional acceleration data acquired in testing roller coasters, GMH Engineering developed a methodology to correlate the acquired acceleration data to the position of the train along the ride’s track. This development encompassed signal processing algorithms and instrumentation hardware, including the development of the DRS1000 Non-contact Speed Sensor - GMH Engineering’s best selling product. This abbreviated early history demonstrates the focus GMH Engineering has had from its inception – to apply creativity, ingenuity and hands-on engineering expertise in solving technical challenges for which there were no suitable, off-the-shelf solutions. Over the years, GMH Engineering has applied this focus and the synergistic talents of its founders in developing world-class expertise in the fields of: • Instrumentation & Data Acquisition • Amusement Ride Testing & Analysis • Whole Body Vibration Testing & Analysis • Forensic Engineering & Analysis • Hand-Arm Vibration Testing & Analysis • Electronic & Mechanical Product Development • Computer Software Development • Automotive & Railroad Crash Testing • Crash-worthiness & Safety Research To facilitate its work, GMH Engineering has developed unique facilities including an electronics development laboratory, an instrumentation production facility, a mechanical fabrication and machine shop, an inventory of instrumentation and test equipment, and a full-scale automotive crash test facility equipped for both vehicle-to-vehicle and barrier testing. Much of GMH Engineering’s success can be attributed to the founding engineers' problem solving ingenuity and their ability to accomplish technically difficult testing. GMH Engineering excels at finding innovative solutions to difficult engineering problems. When other firms turn jobs down as too difficult, too expensive or impractical, GMH Engineering finds cost-effective solutions. If you have an engineering problem to be solved, a machine to be instrumented, tested and analyzed, or a frustrating instrumentation or data acquisition issue for which there seems to be no off-the-shelf solution, contact GMH Engineering. We can help.