Contact
The easiest means of making contact is via email to mjmccann@iee.org or use the feedback form direct from this website.

Alternatively, you can phone to: 1 302 654 2953

or to the mobile (cell) phone 1 302 377-1508,

or send a fax message to: 1 302 429 9458

or send mail to: McCann Science, POB 902, Chadds Ford PA 19317, USA.

You don't have to be in the USA to get assistance, McCann Science is also available in the UK.
(Mobile/Voicemail when in the UK: 07876 184538)

UK Contact: Dr. Charles A. Bishop, C.A.Bishop Consulting Ltd., 5 Church Side, Shepshed, Leicestershire, LE12 9RL
Tel/Fax 01509 502076    E-mail:  CABUK1@compuserve.com . Dr Charles Bishop is colleague, collaborator and friend of long standing. Our businesses are independent. We both have clients on both sides of the Atlantic and we are able to work together to provide you with international support.

McCann Science: Getting Started
Initial discussions to establish mutual interests are easy.
Initial discussions are essential to establishing a mutual interest and evaluating whether collaboration will be useful. To make this easier, McCann Science has a policy of offering a day or so of consultation as a no-fee starter session.
If it needs a lot of travel from our base near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA or from London (England), and if we can't combine it with some other trip, we might have to ask you to contribute to costs. In any case, it is our experience that we can get a long way by phone and email so don't hesitate to get in touch.

How we work with clients.
The usual style of working is to contribute to a project or department by acting as advisor, toolmaker and problem solver, by adding special experience and skills and by being able to give the independent view of things that is so hard to find inside many organisations. You might like to look at our comments about working with clients and our philosophy about consulting responsibilities.

We adapt our service to suit the client.
McCann Science, being small is flexible. If all you want is a couple of days of help to work through a problem with a fresh look; that's OK. If you want to develop a new product or market and need someone to guide you through the quantification of the design or business prospects, develop a plant simulation or process model then involvement over a longer time span is fine too. If what you really need is to augment your team occasionally with an widely experienced electrical engineer or simulation and modelling expert, then McCann's years of working with people from other engineering and science disciplines will suit you well.

Fees are negotiable when we have some established interest.
Fees are negotiable, commensurate with the level of skill and expertise you need. We usually bill on a per day basis, plus incidental expenses, and we don't "nickel and dime" on the odd bits of help and discussions that go along with any serious involvement. If working at our own (home) base for a client we tally the hours and then round down to the nearest half day for billing purposes. If we need to develop a bit of mathematics or do a bit of technical reading to be up to date for you, then that's for our account. As a result you only pay for solid, relevant, engineering and analysis time. We can give fixed price quotes for small predictable jobs. We can work on a retainer basis, but since we expect to be working with clients at a pace they need, it seems to us fairer to bill for real work done. We don't charge for travel time, unless doing some work for the client while in transit.

Confidentiality
We understand that Confidentiality Agreements are often required and will accept and abide by them, but we have two simple rules that always apply:

• we don't take on new clients if there is a conflict of interest with an existing client and
• we don't talk to anyone about your business unless you ask us to.

About McSc
Summary
Principal (CV)
Contacting us
Contact in UK
Location USA
Philosophy
Software Tools
Fees
CAD service

Applications

Business & Commerce
TV Advertising
Drugs Competition
Housing Demand
Automobiles Demand
Wallcoverings Battle
Cash Flow
Human Resources
Project Management
Patent Analysis

Chemical Industry
Cooling Tower
Fermentation
Polymer Process
Heat exchange
Supercritical Fluid
Distributed parameter
Toxic gas allocation

Electrical
Control systems
Initiation systems
Ferrite Filters
Microstrip Antennas
Lightning

Production & Process
Automated manufacture
Crimp and Press
Glass making
Glass molding
Glass to metal seals
Heat exchanger
Helium Leak Testing
RF Soldering
Vacuum web coating

Applications.