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Seattle, WA
Custom-Designed Material Handling
Eureka! Engineering, LLC is an engineering consulting practice based in Seattle, Washington, specializing in custom-designed material handling equipment and electro-mechanical machinery. Drawing on decades of experience at Ederer Crane, its principals and engineers bring deep expertise in crane design, manufacture, and delivery to clients across industrial, nuclear, aerospace, and utility sectors. It applies a broad practical background to solve one-of-a-kind equipment challenges for customers who need creative solutions backed by hands-on technical depth.
Eureka! Engineering develops technical specifications for custom material-handling equipment and provides detailed analysis of vendor offers. For clients such as Chelan County Public Utility District, this includes specification writing, drawing review, and troubleshooting of existing equipment.
Eureka! Engineering provides engineering services related to new equipment procurement and existing equipment evaluation, including cost estimating and proposal development to support client decision-making.
Eureka! Engineering manages sourcing engagements for specialized material-handling and crane equipment, covering vendor evaluation, manufacturing verification, and acceptance testing for both domestic and international procurement efforts.
Eureka! Engineering modernizes crane electrical control systems, specializing in ABB DC drives with crane control software. It provides a path to modern controls without requiring motor replacement, replacing obsolete P&H and Ederer DC drives with proven ABB solutions. Tina Meadows is trained and approved to deliver ABB DC drive installations.
Eureka! Engineering takes on specialty projects where its breadth of experience is most relevant, providing independent engineering evaluations and recommendations across nuclear plant operations, aerospace and scientific equipment, and other specialized industrial applications.
Eureka! Engineering provides professional project leadership and management for the manufacturing of custom material-handling equipment. Its expertise encompasses production oversight, quality management, contracting, and industrial workforce development, ensuring that complex heavy machinery projects are delivered successfully.
Washington, USA | Chelan County Public Utility District | Utilities
Provided engineering services including technical specification writing, drawing review, and troubleshooting of existing equipment to support material-handling needs.
View project sourcePrincipal, Crane Master Emeritus
Neil is a Mechanical Engineer with a 30-year background in design and estimating of custom-engineered cranes and related heavy machinery. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Washington's Executive MBA program, where he served as Class President. Neil is formerly the Chairman of the Engineering Committee and also the Association President for the Crane Manufacturers' Association of America, and was recognized in 2006 by Hoist Magazine as one of the Top 50 Most Influential Persons in the crane industry worldwide.
Senior Controls Engineer
PE
Tina is an Electrical Engineer with a Professional Engineer license, involved with some of the most demanding electrical control projects that custom-engineered cranes have achieved over the past 30 years. Her work has taken her across the United States, Europe, and Asia. During a stint at Kennedy Space Center, she received a letter of commendation from NASA for her design and testing of the cranes in the Vehicle Assembly Building that handle the Space Shuttle.
Senior Mechanical Engineer
After 35 years doing crane work for NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Brad entered the world of private crane consulting in 2016 and joined Eureka! Engineering's team in 2022. In addition, Brad's technical expertise has been enhanced by his volunteer service on the ASME Codes and Standards Committee for Cranes for Nuclear Facilities since 1986. He served as the Committee Chair for six of those years.
Principal, Business Leader Emeritus
JD
Marilyn is a degreed lawyer who transitioned from litigation to industrialist leadership, developing expertise in manufacturing, project management, contracting, human resources, and industrial workforce development. She holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Washington's Executive MBA program and has served on the Board of Directors of the Manufacturing Industrial Council of Seattle. She is also an active member of the Rotary Club of Kelso.