Dr. Ed Stanton

E-mail: ed.stanton@mscsoftware.com

Education

1969 - Ph.D, Case Western Reserve University
1964 - MSAE, University of Southern California
1960 - BSAE, University of Southern California

Experience

Ed Stanton is CTO Emeritus for MSC.Software and earlier was CTO for PDA Engineering. His combined service at these now merged companies was over 25 years. He was responsible for Advanced Technology and New Product Development in those positions. Before that he was a Senior Engineer at McDonnell-Douglas Aircraft for 15 years.

He was the original architect of MSC.Patran, MSC.Mvision and while at Douglas Aircraft served on the Industry Advisory Board for NASA that wrote the specification for Nastran. Prior to his retirement he was responsible for MSC.Software’s collaborative R&D programs with customers and government agencies in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

His early work involved flight-testing structures at White Sands and later designing low risk carbon-carbon materials and structures for rocket motors. This flight-testing work and the design of carbon-carbon composites introduced him to stochastic methods many years ago. In later years he contributed to a DARPA program led by Boeing that developed the Robust Design Computational System used to do stochastic design space explorations.

He is a Fellow of the American Society for Composites and won their 1990 Outstanding Research Award for his work in designing carbon-carbon structures with low manufacturing risk. In 1975 he won the AIAA/ONR Structures Medal and Prize for developing a parametric solid modeling system for 3D composite materials. He is the author of many papers, reports, contributor to many books, and a member of the UCI Engineering Advisory Board.

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