Member Bio - John A. Swanson

John A. Swanson is the founder of ANSYS, served as president for more than
20 years, and was its chief technologist until his retirement in 1999. Swanson
is internationally recognized as an authority and innovator in the development
and application of finite-element methods to engineering. He founded
Swanson Analysis Systems (now ANSYS) in 1970 to develop, support, and
market the ANSYS program, a finite-element software code widely used in the
computer-aided engineering industry. Prior to that, Swanson was employed
at Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory. In 2009, he was elected a member
of the National Academy of Engineering. He was awarded the John Fritz
Medal in 2004. He is a Board of Trustees Member Emeritus of the University
of Pittsburgh, and served 12 years on the Board of Trustees of Washington and
Jefferson College. He is currently active in Renewable Energy, with a focus on
PV Solar Power. He does public lectures at Universities and community gatherings,
as well as consulting on residential and commercial PV design.