Linda Knudsen

Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer

Syncroness, Inc.

As senior principal mechanical engineer at Syncroness, Inc., an Alten Group company, Linda Knudsen leads FEA and CFD simulations of medical devices, aerospace systems, and industrial equipment to support design decisions under a quality management system certified to ISO 13485, ISO 9001, and AS9100. Since 2015, Linda has been a member of ASME V&V 40 Verification and Validation in Computational Modeling of Medical Devices and contributed to the development of the V&V 40 standard. In 2020, Linda became a member of the NAFEMS Americas Steering Committee. She has presented at ASME V&V symposiums as well as NAFEMS CAASE conferences.

She is committed to advancing the effective implementation of simulation by deploying standardized training and procedures, integrating V&V into the simulation process, and collaborating with the international engineering analysis community to extract best practices.

Linda has an M.S. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rutgers University. She was a Fulbright Scholar to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and has lived and worked in France, Switzerland, and Germany. She is fluent in French and German.