Bill O’Donnell, BSME, MA

Practice Areas: Sales, Marketing, Engineering

I lead sales, marketing, and content strategy at O’Donnell Consulting Engineers — including the website you’re reading right now. My background sits at an unusual intersection: a BSME in Mechanical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology, paired with an MA in Communications from Carnegie Mellon University. That combination lets me translate the firm’s technical work into content that holds up for a practicing engineer while still being clear to someone encountering it for the first time.

Before shifting focus to communications, I spent more than 20 years in engineering roles. I supported the Materials Research Division at Argonne National Laboratory, developing test protocols for submarine propulsion systems. At General Electric, I worked on assembly and vibration/atmospheric testing of avionic equipment. At Pratt & Whitney, I supported structural analysis and testing on Space Shuttle Main Engine components. As a Senior Engineer, I developed material design curves for military and aerospace applications.

At O’Donnell Consulting, that engineering background now shows up directly in our published work — I co-authored two ASME papers on fatigue design curves for reactor water environments (full citations below), and I draw on that same technical grounding to develop the ASME design curves, materials databases, and research into alloys and refractories that support the firm’s engineering practice.

Publications

“Proposed New Fatigue Design Curves for Carbon and Low Alloy Steels in High Temperature Water” William J. O’Donnell, William John O’Donnell and Thomas P. O’Donnell, Proceedings of ASME PVP Conference, Technologies for Safe Efficient Energy Conversion, July 17-21, 2005, Denver, CO

“Temperature Dependence of Reactor Water Environmental Fatigue Effects on Carbon, Low Alloy and Austenitic Stainless Steels” William J. O’Donnell & William John O’Donnell, Proceedings of the 2008 ASME PVP Conference, July 27-31, 2008, Chicago, IL.