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John A. Swanson is president of Swanson Analysis Services, a finite-element finiteelement
consulting firm. He 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 finiteelement
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 on the Board of Trustees of the University of Pittsburgh, and served
12 years on the Board of Trustees of Washington and Jefferson College.
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