Dr. David Hibbitt

Education:

B.A., Mechanical Science, Cambridge University, England, 1965; Ph.D., Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1972.

Experience :

Dr. Hibbitt began his career in engineering with Associated Electrical Industries Ltd. of Manchester, England, working on the design of large steam turbines for electrical power generation. His thesis work at Brown University involved the simulation of the welding process by finite element analysis. From 1972 to 1977 he worked for the Marc Analysis Research Corporation, where he was responsible for the development of the Marc finite element program.

In 1978 he founded Hibbitt, Karlsson & Sorensen, Inc. (now ABAQUS, Inc.) and began the design and development of the ABAQUS program. ABAQUS is best known as a suite of general-purpose finite element programs with particular strength in the simulation of complex solid and structural mechanics problems involving nonlinear response.

In 1978 and again in 1980 Dr. Hibbitt taught as an Adjunct Professor in the graduate school of the University of Texas at Austin. He has served on the editorial advisory board of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering , and was a member of the Computational Mechanics Committee of the U.S. National Research Council’s Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems during 1982–1984.

He received the ASME’s Applied Mechanics Award for 1993, and a Brown University Engineering Alumni Medal in 1997. He has served on advisory committees that assisted the Office of Naval Research and Sandia National Laboratory in evaluating their research programs in engineering mechanics, and on the executive council of the US Association for Computational Mechanics. He currently serves on the North American advisory committee for NAFEMS, an organization that promotes reliability and quality in computational mechanics applications, on the advisory council for Brown University’s Division of Engineering, on the External Visiting Committee for the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University, and on the Rhode Island Science and Technology Advisory Council. He is a trustee of the Community Prep school in Providence, Rhode Island.