School of Engineering

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

Department Affiliation:

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Department of Mechanical, Aerospace & Nuclear Engineering
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Education:

Background:

Shephard is a fellow past president the U.S. Association of Computational Mechanics, and is an active member of numerous organizations including the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, SIAM, the Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, and the American Society for Engineering Education. He serves at the Editor of Engineering with Computers and is on the editorial board of five other technical journals.

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Research Interests:

 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.