NAFEMS in Canada: The Engineering Simulation Roadshow

NAFEMS is bringing a series of exclusive one-day events to Canada, where we'll help you towards finding the answer one of the most consequential questions in engineering simulation: how do you know your model is right?

Each day combines a keynote presentation, a focused training session led by senior FEA consultant Dominique Madier, and an introduction to the NAFEMS community and the resources available to engineers, analysts, and technical managers working with simulation.

The events are open to all. NAFEMS members and non-members are welcome.

Confirmed Locations

M​ontreal - September 15th

T​oronto - September 16th

Additional Canadian cities will be announced shortly.

B​ook your place today!

Training Session: The Model Verification Toolkit

Delivered by Dominique Madier, Founder & Director, FEA Academy

Most FEA errors are introduced before the solver ever runs, and most are entirely preventable with the right pre-solve discipline. This session presents a complete verification toolkit covering accuracy checks, mathematical validity checks, and a structured pre-solve quality gate, followed by a dedicated session on test-analysis correlation.

Attendees will leave with a working framework for assessing whether a model is mathematically sound and whether it represents physical reality.

Topics include:

• Accuracy checks vs. mathematical checks, and the verification-validation distinction
• Singularities, mechanisms, and the epsilon vector
• Weight, applied load, and reacted load checks
• Free-free modal and ground checks
• Unit gravity, unit enforced displacement, and free thermal strain checks
• A structured pre-solve verification checklist
• Test-analysis correlation: strain gauge measurement, FEM strain extraction, validation factor calculation, and correlation plotting

About the Trainer

Dominique Madier is a senior FEA consultant with over 25 years of international experience in structural analysis and numerical simulation. He has logged more than 40,000 hours of FEA modelling in NASTRAN and has contributed to projects for Airbus, Dassault Aviation, Safran, Bell Helicopter Textron Canada, Bombardier Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney Canada, and Beta Technologies, working across fuselages, wings, nacelles, empennages, engine pylons, helicopter airframes, and mechanical systems.

He is the author of Practical Finite Element Analysis for Mechanical Engineers (2020) and Harness the Power of Finite Element Analysis (2024), and the founder of FEA Academy. He was named Engineering Education & Training Provider of the Year at the 2024/25 Corporate LiveWire Global Awards.

About NAFEMS

NAFEMS is the International Association for the Engineering Modelling, Analysis and Simulation Community, a not-for-profit organisation that has supported the global engineering simulation community for over 40 years. Each roadshow event includes a short briefing on NAFEMS membership, technical resources, working groups, PSE Certification, and our event programme.

Early Bird Pricing available until July 17
Member: $125 Nonmember: $175

Standard Pricing
Member: $175 Nonmember: $225

N​ote - all prices are in US Dollars (USD)