Dr. Stephen W.Attaway , a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, at the Sandia Engineering Science Center, Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, has been elected a FELLOW of ASME in March 2000. He is currently a leader in the research & development efforts for computational solid-mechanics, parallel computation, and large-scale transient dynamics algorithm and soft-ware development at Sandia.

For the past several years, Dr. Attaway has been responsible for research, development, and applications in transient dynamics at Sandia National Labs, using the finite element code PRONTO 3D. This software is widely used in the U. S. Department of Energy, Department of Defense and industries. He made outstanding contributions which include developing a general contact algorithm that scales to thousands of parallel processors.He has been active in coupling Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics to the finite element code PRONTO 3D.

Dr. Attaway has published widely. He is the recipient of a large number of highly prestigious international awards, notably: 1. Mannheim SuParCup'99, First Prize for "Scalable Parallel Crash Simulations, 1999, 2. The ERIC REISSNER Medal, "for significant contributions to computational solid mechanics," International Conference on Computational Engineering Science, 1998, Atlanta, Georgia.;3. Lockheed Martin Team Award 1998: PRONTO 3D Parallel Contact;4. Finalist: Gordon Bell Award, SC97; 5.Lockheed Martin Team Award 1996: Goodyear; 6. Best paper: Intel Supercomputer User Conference, Knoxville Tenn., June 20, 1996; and 7.Award for Excellence: For innovative development of the PRONTO Code and providing leading-edge simulations of plutonium air transport impact scenarios, April 1994

Dr. Attaway received all his degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology, inclduding a Ph.D in Computational Mechanics from that institution, in 1986