| John A. Swanson |
John A. Swanson is president of Swanson Analysis Services, a finiteelement
consulting finite element consulting firm. He is the founder of ANSYS, served as president
for president for more than 20 years, and was its chief technologist until his retirement
in retirement in 1999. Swanson is internationally recognized as an authority and
innovator and innovator in the development and application of finite-
element methods
to methods to engineering. He founded Swanson Analysis Systems (now ANSYS)
in in 1970 to develop, support, and market the ANSYS program, a finiteelementfinite-element
software code widely used in the computer-aided engineering
industryengineering industry. Prior to that, Swanson was employed at Westinghouse Astronuclear
LaboratoryAstronuclear Laboratory. In 2009, he was elected a member of the National
Academy National Academy of Engineering. He was awarded the John Fritz Medal in 2004.
He He is on the Board of Trustees of the University of Pittsburgh, and served
12 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.
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