“It gives me great pleasure to be able to contribute in a small way to the education of MAE students at Syracuse, especially the undergrads since they remind me of my time at SU,” said John Chawner, Pointwise’s president and co-founder. “It is very gratifying to know that some of these students now will graduate with practical CFD experience and an appreciation of mesh generation.”

Mr. Chawner is a 1984 graduate of Syracuse University with a dual B.S. degree in aerospace and mechanical engineering. He has been a member of the advisory board for the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering for the past six years.

Pointwise, a longtime supporter of the academic engineering community, has a widely used academic licensing program, including the Pointwise Teaching Partnership, which is being utilized by the U.S. Air Force Academy, the University of Tennessee SimCenter at Chattanooga, University of Queensland, RWTH Aachen and others.

Pointwise, Inc. is solving the top problem facing engineering analysts today – mesh generation for computational fluid dynamics. The company’s Gridgen and Pointwise software generates structured, unstructured and hybrid meshes; interfaces with CFD solvers, such as ANSYS FLUENT, STAR-CCM+, ANSYS CFX and OpenFOAM as well as many neutral formats, such as CGNS; runs on Windows (Intel and AMD), Linux (Intel and AMD), Mac and Unix, and has scripting languages that can automate CFD meshing. Large manufacturing firms and research organizations worldwide rely on Pointwise as their complete CFD preprocessing solution.

More information about Pointwise and Gridgen is available at www.pointwise.com.

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