EnginSoft and its President
Prof. Ing. Stefano Odorizzi

Born on 14^th  May 1949, Stefano Odorizzi   graduated in Civil Engineering in 1973, and then was a research worker at the University of Padova since 1976, where  since 1984 he is in charge of the course on ‘Construction Technologies’, and more recently of the course on ‘mechanics of continua’ as well as of  research activities in the area of CAE, iDP and related disciplines.  Since 1984 he is also scientific co-coordinator and general manager of EnginSoft – which is a laboratory for technology transfer to the industry in the CAE sector, acknowledged by the Ministry of University and Research – as well as member of the board of ESTECO – a research laboratory on optimization and IT technologies by the ‘Science Park’ in Trieste -.

Activities and professional experiences can be referred to three main lines: research, vocational training, and professional work.

As to research – which is documented by more than 200 papers - a first phase was dedicated to basics in FE and simulation technologies, on subjects such as lagrangian formulation for oriented bodies, large displacement and large deformation problems, fully coupled formulations for porous media, FE algorithms (numerical integration schemes, smoothing algorithms, reduced integration, numerical dumping). More recently and today the research focus is more on manufacturing process simulation (with particular reference to metallurgy) and on multi-objective and multi-disciplinary optimization as well as MCDM and IT related problems. Since 1977 he was and is research project leader of a variety of projects funded by the European Commission, or by other Agencies/Bodies, including COMETT, CRAFT, BRITE-EURAM, MURST, EU-RTD (from fourth framework on). Moreover he is member of various associations, including ISOPE, ASM Europe, AICAP, AIM, ATA, NAFEMS as well as responsible for research lines in the main European networks of the sector, including MACSInet, FENET, INGENET, TECHNET and others.

As to vocational training, the attitude and constant commitment can be documented as follows: founder and general manager of the TCN consortium (www.consorziotcn.it), co-founder and former first president of of NAFEMS Italy (www.nafems.it), prime proposer and/or scientific co-coordinator of a variety of pilot projects (including 5 EC Leonardo da Vinci), technology partner of the MOPLE EC funded IT project for long-distance education, organizers of international conferences (from the ‘first international conference on microcomputers in engineering’ in 1984, to the ‘TCN-CAE 2003 International Conference on CAE and computational technologies for industries’ this year), editor of a number of primers (form the primer on “Introduzione al Metodo degli Elementi Finiti”, ed. Pitagora, 1981, and “Metodi numerici per l’analisi dinamica delle strutture” , Ed. Pitagora, 1984, to the primer on “Numerical simulation of foundry processes”, Ed. SGE,2001).

The professional experience is mainly related to the role covered in EnginSoft, and the activities of the company.