Faculty

Mark S.Shephard, Professor and (Samuel A. and Elisabeth C. Johnson, Jr. Professor of Engineering) and Director of the Scientific Computation Research Center

 

Research Center Affiliations:

General Areas of Research:

· Simulation
· Modeling

Research Activities:


 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.