Braving a new world

Posted on October 28th, 2009 by Masha Petrova

There are number of new projects on the backburner that I believe would be of use to you, MVP Blog readers. So, I am very excited to introduce to you my partner for several of these projects, Dr. Sunil Acharya.

Sunil is an expert in Multiphysics Modeling and Product Development, as well as a very creative entrepreneur. Since I started talking with him a few weeks back, our list of joint ventures has been expanding exponentially. Just to give you some ideas of what will be coming up in the next several months:

- We are working on putting together a series of materials on effective engineering computer modeling, tailored specifically for industry professionals (think “Cliff Notes”). The idea is to help engineers who are working for companies that actually need to create products (as opposed to prove nebulous theories) to do their job better with the help of computer simulations.

- We are also putting together an on-line conference, that will provide technical professionals with specific tools and techniques that will help them find new jobs, get promotions or simply keep their current employment.

If you are interested in learning more about either one of those projects, please contact me at masha@mvpmodelingsolutions.com.

And now it is my pleasure to introduce to Dr. Acharya and his article: Braving a New World.

Braving a new world

I used to be fascinated with listening to the conversations of people born in the first quarter of the 20th century. Their stories reminded me of walking from one chamber of a natural history museum to another: horses, lights, cars, phones, A-bomb… I used to think that that those experiences were one of a kind and that there will never be another generation with so many changes in a single lifetime. Read more »

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Top 5 Reasons to Outsource Your Modeling Work

Posted on October 22nd, 2009 by Masha Petrova

Thanks to all of you who responded to my previous post on “How Much is Your Time Worth?” Not only are you keeping this blog alive, you are making it more popular by the minute! Thank you for that.

I recently became the exclusive USA distributor for EURO/CFD, a European based company that provides CAD and CAE (including CFD) simulation services. The main reason for this partnership being that my services are complimentary to EURO/CFD’s. I educate organizations on how to be more successful with computer modeling, and how to translate real-world engineering problems into computer simulations. Once specific areas and techniques are identified, and if a client wants a fast, clean, expert solution to their modeling problem, EURO/CFD will do a great job on that side. The services of MVP Modeling Solutions and EURO/CFD greatly compliment each other resulting in a happy client with a start-to-end solution to their complex engineering problem.

Since my previous post on saving time and headache with outsourcing, got such rave reviews, this week I am continuing that theme and in the spirit of my new partnership with EURO/CFD I present to you:

TOP 5 REASONS TO OUTSOURCE YOUR MODELING WORK

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More on Successful Unemployment - take a look at this presentation

Posted on June 5th, 2009 by Masha Petrova

OK, so I was fully planning on getting back to writing about the influence of computer simulation on engineering research, but there was just too much interest in the topic of Successful Unemployment. I am guessing that the economy has something to do with it.  To provide more information to those of you who are interested, I decided to dedicate one more post to this subject.

But next week we are definitely getting back to computer simulation and actual engineering topics. Coming up in the next few weeks:

- Best practices for running computer simulations of Reactive Flows

- I will attempt to post our first Audio blog post: interview with Elaine Oran, from the Naval Research Lab, who is a co-author of Numerical Simulation of Reactive Flows and a well-known authority in this field.

Exciting stuff coming up, so stay tuned!

For those of you interested in finding out more about Ways to Increase Your Professional Value, I gave a webinar just on that topic last week. It was organized and hosted by NAFEMS (thanks to Matt Latzinski) – National Agency for Finite Element Methods and Standards. I recently found out about Nafems and was intrigued to learn that the organization is dedicated to promoting all kinds of engineering computer simulation, not just finite element methods. For example they have a whole group dedicated to CFD modeling. And they are software vendor neutral.

Considering the fact that Nafems’ goals seem to perfectly align with MVP Modeling Solution’s mission statement, I contacted them to learn more about their membership. To make a long story short, they were very interested in the Successful Unemployment topic and invited me to present a webinar on the subject.

The invitation to join the webinar went out on Friday. This on-line event was to be held on Tuesday the following week. We had close to 150 attendees and that’s with a notice sent out only 3 work-days prior to the webinar.

Needless to say, the subject of how engineers can increase their chances of getting hired is a sore spot for many people now days. The good news is that you can now listen to the recording of my webinar on: 10 Ways to Increase Your Professional Value in the Engineering Industry here:

http://www.nafems.org/events/nafems/2009/employment/

Since access to the webinar is provided as a courtesy of NAFEMS, please fill out information requested in this link. Also NOTE you need to download the .arf player in order to see and hear the webinar through computer speakers:

https://nafems.webex.com/ec0600l/downloadUrl.do?url=https://nafems.webex.com:443/client/T26L/nbr2player.msi

Enjoy and as always, I welcome your comments here!

Masha

P.S. For those of you who have been asking me why am I giving away information that is a part of the Successful Unemployment Toolkit, the answer is that the toolkit includes a lot more additional information on each of the 10 Steps, as well as links and references that are not a part of this webinar, plus the convenience of an audio CD that you can listen to in your car or any CD player.

Successful Unemployment

Posted on May 26th, 2009 by Masha Petrova

How many of you, reading this, are certain that you are keeping your job this year?

I thought that would deviate a bit from my usual technical musings, and dedicate this post to those of you who are not all that certain about where your next paycheck will be coming from. This post is for you - the highly talented and skilled engineers and scientists who might have to look for a job, or a total change in your career, this year.

Recently, I had a chance to work with some companies in chemical and automotive industries, and it has been impossible to ignore the pink elephant in the room - the massive amounts of talented scientists and engineers being laid off from their jobs at these companies due to the economy.

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