Scientific Computation Research Center

Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Department of Mechanical, Aerospace & Nuclear Engineering

Simulation

Modeling

 Mark S. Shephard's professional activities have focused on technologies to improve the reliability and level of automation of advanced numerical simulations to support their effective application by engineers and scientist. His research activities have lead to well recognized and applied contributions on the areas of automatic mesh generation of CAD geometry, automated and adaptive analysis methods, and parallel adaptive simulation technologies. This research has been supported by both government agencies (over 65 research grants from 13 agencies) and industry (funding from 44 companies). Dr. Shephard has published over 250 papers.

• Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Fellow, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics
• Fellow, International Association for Computational Mechanics

• Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Dr. Shephard is a fellow and past president of the US Association for Computational Mechanics, and was recipient of the 1997 USACM Computational and Applied Sciences Award; a fellow and member of the General Council of the International Association for Computational Mechanics; a fellow of ASME and an Associate Fellow of AIAA. He is editor of Engineering with Computers and on the editorial board of five computational mechanics journals.