Engineer, HI-SEAS project
Ansley Barnard, and engineer from Reno, NV, is the Engineering Officer for Mission V. She is in charge of monitoring their life support systems and fixing things that break down. She is passionate about performance vehicles by land, air and space. Professionally, she enjoys solving multi-disciplinary problems in the aerospace and automotive industries. She has worked with...
Director, Structural & Dynamic Analysis, Cummins
With more than 25 years’ experience in the design and development of IC engines and 15 years’ in analysis-led design tools and methods, Bob Tickel has been at Cummins since 1988. He received his Master’s degree in Engineering at Purdue University in 1994. Currently Director of Structural & Dynamic Analysis, he provides computational analyses for...
Chief Engineer, Honda
Eric DeHoff graduated with a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from Purdue University. He started his engineering career as a rocket scientist for NASA in 1988 working on analyses of the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. He then joined Honda R&D Americas in Ohio in 1996 in the first CAE group responsible for developing CAE activity for the...
Senior Principal Engineer, Whirlpool Corporation
Greg Garstecki is a Senior Principal Engineer at Whirlpool Corporation; his current role is System Architect within the Laundry organization. He has a bachelor and masters degree in Mechanical Engineering and has 29 years experience in aerospace and consumer product design. His field of expertise includes CAE structural simulation, model based system performance modeling,...
Multidisciplinary Optimization (MDO) Group Leader, Cummins
Kevin Brittain worked for Cummins in structural analysis for 6 years. He received his Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2011 with an emphasis on structural optimization. Currently he is leading a global MDO team within the Power Systems Business Unit and also leading cross functional initiatives across the company...
Ford Motor Company, Manager of Global Powertrain NVH & Systems CAE
Mr. Felice is Manager of the Global Powertrain NVH CAE engineering Dept. at Ford Motor Company. He heads a large team of CAE engineers located in North America, Europe, Australia and South America. Mr. Felice is responsible for all the analytical support of powertrain development programs required to deliver best NVH refinement with respect to Smoothness, Quietness and...
Master's candidate, University of Florida
Michael Bambula was born in Fürth, Germany and initially moved to the Bahamas and then to South Florida with his twin brother Alex and mother Karin. He completed his Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on Energy Systems at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. During his time there he was heavily involved in the Formula SAE team;...
Manager, Advanced Analytics & Optimization, Arconic
Dr. Sergio Butkewitsch Choze has over 15 years of experience in the development and application of statistical and optimization methods for the aerospace, defense and oil & gas industries. In addition to technical leadership roles, Sergio has had significant supervisory and project management responsibilities throughout his career, including leadership of technology...