David F. Taggart

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Mr. Taggart’s career spans 24 years across aerospace, automotive, and cleantech industries. Since spending half his career in aerospace at Lockheed’s famous Skunk Works, Mr. Taggart has held leadership roles in four start-ups including Hypercar, Inc., PowerLight (now SunPower,) OptiSolar, Inc. and Belectric, Inc. At Belectric Inc., Mr. Taggart leads the North American operations of the world’s largest integrator of utility-grade PV power plants, providing industry leadership in long term performance guarantees, optimized project economics, and turn-key execution. Holds BS Metallurgical Engineering from Cal Poly SLO, MS Materials Engineering from RPI, and Class B/C46 license

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David F. Taggart

Presentations

Engineering Sustainability into the Design Process

Lockheed Skunk Works

Systems Focused Product Development Of The Hypercar

Breakthrough Product Development

Advanced Materials Leadership for SAMPE Conference 2002

Presentation to the Defense Science Board Task Force on “Improving Fuel Efficiency of Weapons Platforms”

2011 GTM Summit: Implications of Thin‐Film Technologies on Utility PV Project Financials

Efficient Product Development for IDEO 2002

What Can Materials Engineers Do?

The Solar Power Revolution

Documents

Design and High Volume Manufacture of an Affordable Advanced Composite Automotive Body Structure