GMH Engineering was conceived by three friends who shared graduate student office space in the advanced thermodynamics lab at Brigham Young University (BYU). J. Gordon, Chuck Monson and Greg Heiner also shared a passion for the many facets of engineering and for the creative, hands-on processes of designing, building, testing, and analyzing machines. In January of 1988 the three fledgling engineers borrowed a bit of seed money from two of their fathers, formed a partnership and launched GMH Engineering. The company was incorporated a few months later. From the start GMH Engineering has been deeply involved in instrumentation, data acquisition, testing, and analysis. Given the backgrounds and early experiences of its founders, GMH Engineering became heavily involved in automotive crash testing and safety research. A need was soon recognized for an economical, crashworthy, onboard data acquisition system. The data acquisition technology of the time included a data logger track side, connected to onboard instrumentation through an electrical umbilical cable dragging on the ground. To solve the physical and electrical problems associated with dragging a lengthy umbilical cable, the DataBRICK was conceived and developed. Today, GMH Engineering is selling the third generation of this proven data acquisition system. In the early 1990s GMH Engineering was retained to investigate an incident at a local amusement park - beginning an over two-decade involvement in testing and analyzing amusement ride dynamics. In order to improve the utility of the three-dimensional acceleration data acquired in testing roller coasters, GMH Engineering developed a methodology to correlate the acquired acceleration data to the position of the train along the rides track. This development encompassed signal processing algorithms and instrumentation hardware, including the development of the DRS1000 Non-contact Speed Sensor - GMH Engineerings best selling product. This abbreviated early history demonstrates the focus GMH Engineering has had fr