Bill Abramson was one of the founders of COE and was the President of COE for 12 years. He worked for Grumman Aerospace for 31 years pioneering many aspects of CAD/CAM development. Bill worked in Grumman's lines group, developed CAD/CAM software, developed CAD/CAM training materials, headed the CAD/CAM training department, headed the software development group and worked in management overseeing the operations of our CAD/CAM organization. Presently, Bill is a CAD/CAM consultant providing guidance to organizations with strong Dassault affiliations on consumer issues and directions. In addition to acting as the COE NewsNet editor, Bill is also supporting the COE Board of Directors in organizing COE conferences and many other Board activities.

Bill can be reached for comment and suggestions at newsnet@coe.org.

John Switlik is an Associate Technical Fellow at Boeing. His interests have an integration/quality focus for life-cycle control (Conceptual, Define, Produce, and Maintain). The involved methodology includes applied/computational mathematics (FEA/FEM/Statics, simulation/dynamics, NURBS-based numeric processes), knowledge modeling/management (since 1983), and advanced techniques such as adaptive approaches, statistical learning, data mining, and categorical modeling/processing. With a Professor Emeritus, Mathematics, Switlik has been exploring the basis for modern mathematical analysis as applied with the computational metaphor. He received his M.A. and B.A from the University of Arizona in Economics with focus on quantitative analysis.