Alan J. Arena, PE
Alan J. Arena, PE
President

Mr. Arena is a licensed Professional Engineer and an accomplished manager with over twenty-five years of experience designing transportation, Themed ride rides and show action equipment, weapons systems and servo systems. He has managed, engineered and designed complex projects ranging from National Defense Systems to Themed Attractions. Mr. Arena's specialties are system engineering, servo-systems, kinematics, stress and thermal analyses, fluid dynamics and system design. He is instrumental for the calculations of all stress, floor loading and finite element analysis. He has also managed and designed many popular simulation based entertainment attractions.

Mr. Arena has provided critical engineering on numerous programs:

  • Action Ride Theaters
  • Automotive Vehicle Engineering
  • Back To The Future Attraction
  • Both EarthQuake Attractions
  • Caesar's Palace Race for Atlantis
  • Control Force Loading Systems
  • EPA data analysis programs
  • EPA Revised Durability Protocol
  • Flight Trainer Simulator
  • Floated-Ball Inertial Guidance Unit
  • Inertial Fiber Optic Gyro
  • Miami Vice Stunt Action Show
  • Nevada Stateline Monorail
  • Noise simulation and abatement
  • Off-Road Construction Equipment Engineering
  • Ring Laser Inertial Navigation System
  • Servo Control construction equipment
  • Star Trek The Experience
  • Taipei Astronomical Museum Cosmic Adventure
  • The E.T. Attraction
  • The EarthQuake Attractions
  • The Mark V Monorail
  • The Norway Pavilion
  • VR Express Capsule rides

 

Mr. Arena received his Bachelors of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Degrees from Illinois Institute of Technology, and Master of Mechanical Engineering from California University Los Angeles. He has taught engineering classes at California State Polytechnic University Pomona.

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