Movie stars covet Academy Awards(reg), but few can claim one. Tom Williams has two on his shelf, one for "Scientific and Engineering," and another for "Technical Achievement." And if this fails to impress you, he also has more than 20 film credits, including: Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, The Mask, Forrest Gump, Jumanji, and Twister. Williams spent seven years at Industrial Light & Magic as a computer graphics supervisor, director of research and development, and executive in charge of digital effects. In this capacity, he supervised the development of breakthrough technology that resulted in the film effects that not only won him the Academy Awards, but would have been impossible to create using more traditional special effects. Just think about those dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. Engineers who have viewed any of the above movies can appreciate this engineering feet. Williams now heads long-range product development and research at Silicon Graphics' Alias/Wavefront subsidiary.
Plastic may not be the most beloved of materials to the more environmentally minded, but Plasti 2012 aimed to mold a different opinion of the material in people's minds.
The rare earth element market has become steadily more rational, and new sources coming online will continue to reduce costs. Still, it is unlikely that prices will drop to their former lows.
Against a backdrop of mounting product complexity and a need to keep a lid on development costs, companies are recognizing a need to make simulation a more integral part of the design process. In response, vendors in the CAD world are building out CAE functionality as part of their CAD suites while simulation vendors are building tighter integrations to leading CAD tools. Keith Meintjes, Ph.D., Practice Manager, Simulation and Analysis at CIMdata, Inc., joins Design News CAD Editor Beth Stackpole in this radio program to explore the new face of integrated CAD and CAE, how companies are benefitting from this tighter partnership between platforms, and how integrating CAE earlier in the development cycle pays off in optimized product designs.
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