Mohamad S El-Zein

John Deere Fellow, Materials

Manager, Advanced Materials & Mechanics

Moline Technology Innovation Center

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Keynote

“HPC is here, tools are not: how long do we have to wait”

Mohamad S El-Zein, PhD – John Deere Fellow, Materials

Moline, IL, USA

Abstract

In Corporate culture time is money. The faster the product is driven into the market, the more cost opportunities become available. Tools available to engineers in the areas of Structural analysis, CFD, acoustics, Discrete Element Methods, manufacturing process simulations, data analytics, and many other domains are used heavily during the product design, manufacturing, and operations. However, many of these tools were written before MPP, GPUs, and huge supercomputers available around the world. But incorporations have to balance speed versus cost, here where things get interesting and the act of balancing dollars versus tools versus cores. A run through what is there and their capabilities versus what is delivered to enterprises will be presented.

Thursday 8 February 2018 – 8:45 am – 9:30 am

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Bio

MEZ2 Mohamad S El-zein, has a PhD in Engineering Mechanics from VA Tech, 1989 and a MBA from St Ambrose University, 2000. Throughout his career, he worked in Advanced Materials, Mechanics, Testing and Simulation. Led many projects in Advanced composite design, Simulation and experimental duty cycle and Analysis. For the past 10 years, have led the Advanced Materials & Engineering Mechanics, where the responsibilities included Aluminium, AHSS, Magnesium, and Advanced Composites. These responsibilities spanned design, joining, methodology development, simulation, and Analysis.