Meet our SIMULIA Champion Ahmet Becene. Becene is a Technical Fellow at Collins Aerospace, a division of Raytheon Technologies, located in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. Coincidentally, he sits next to fellow SIMULIA Champion Feng Feng, whose story you can read here. Collins Aerospace provides solutions for commercial and business aviation, space missions, and military and defense.

Becene’s professional journey took him through academia before he ended up in industry. He received his Master’s Degree from the University of Maine in 1997, followed by a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rochester. He was an adjunct professor at the University of Rochester for eight years, and he is inspired by the school’s motto Meliora, which is Latin for “even better” – a motto Becene describes as the foundation of his career as he always strives to be better.

“I’ve always firmly believed in transferring knowledge,” he says. “This is something I picked up from my professors while I was getting my degrees – they always instilled in me that you have to transfer knowledge, you can’t keep it to yourself, you have to share it. That’s why I spent so much time in academia.”

We will be getting to know some of our individual SIMULIA Champions in a series of blogs, finding out more about their history – and future – with the technology. Read the full interview with Ahmet Becene on the SIMULIA blog.

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