| John A. Swanson |
Dr. John A. Swanson is currently President president of Swanson Analysis Services, Inc., a finite-element consulting firm. Dr. Swanson He is the founder of ANSYS, Inc., served as President president for more than 20 years, and most recently was their its chief technologist until his retirement in March of 1999. John Swanson is internationally recognized as an authority and innovator in the development and application of finitefinite-element methods to engineering. He founded Swanson Analysis Systems , Inc. (now ANSYS, Inc) 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 founding ANSYS, Inc., John that, Swanson was employed at Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory in the stress analysis group in reactor design, the core analysis and methods group, and the structural analysis group. While at Westinghouse, John recognized that companies could save significant time and money if they used an integrated general purpose finite-element software code to do the complex calculations which engineers were doing manually.
Dr. Swanson holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Cornell University. He also holds a Ph.D. in applied mechanics from the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Swanson is currently on the Board of Trustees of Washington & Jefferson College and the University of Pittsburgh. His support of colleges and universities includes the donation of research laboratories to the Engineering Schools at Cornell University and the University of Pittsburgh. He recently gave the naming gift for the John A. Swanson Science Center at Washington and Jefferson College. In 2009, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is on the board of trustees of Washington & Jefferson College and the University of Pittsburgh.
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