Industry Applications of CAE
Over the last 30 years, high-fidelity simulation has become an integral business practice for vast majority of engineering companies involved in designing and manufacturing complex products. The industries in which simulation has had the biggest impact is broad but perhaps the largest adoption of computer aided engineering is in the automotive and aerospace industries. Various simulation technologies and their role in critical engineering applications will be discussed. Current technical challenges will be presented. The talk will conclude with an outlook for simulation in the context of both challenges and disruptive technologies like generative AI and machine learning.
Bio: Bruce Engelmann was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018. Before joining Cadence, he served as chief technology officer for design and engineering within Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence. There, he was responsible for technology leadership, research and development, and product-line related functions.
Before joining Hexagon MSC, he served as chief technology officer of Dassault Systèmes Simulia Corp. He was responsible for growing SIMULIA’s technology leadership position and guiding the company’s technical software development in response to customers’ long-term business requirements. He directed the development of Abaqus/Explicit for five years before taking the CTO role in 2001.
Before joining SIMULIA, Engelmann received his Ph.D. in civil engineering and applied mechanics at Northwestern University in 1986 and following that became a lead software developer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as well as working as a principal in multiple start-up companies involved in hardware and software development including electric vehicle development at US Electricar in the mid-1990s.
Engelmann’s interests in multiphysics finite element simulation extend back to his college years when he first realized that computers were going to transform engineering as we know it.