Tom Hunter

A proud heritage
Response to October 1957
The world is complex
and getting more so
Speed, cost, and reliability are drivers
for new engineering methodology.
Gathering Storm and State of the
United States
"Since WWII, the United States has led the world in science and technology.... As we enter the 21st century, however, our
leadership is being challenged. Several nations have faster growing economies, and they are investing an increasing percentage
of their resources in science and technology.” - Rising Above The Gathering Storm, p. 9-1
Engineering as we
practiced it
Engineering as we need it
Columbia: A hard problem
Predicting…seeing…believing
Predicting: Can you believe it?
Seeing is believing
Tires are not what you really think.
 Our work with
Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Computer Modeling of Tires

Tread Belts  A tire is a composite

Ply
structure of at least 8
layers of different
Sidewall
materials

 Each layer can be

defined as a number of
little elements
Liner

Apex  Most of the elements

have non-linear material
Bead properties
Chafer
Matrix Shorthand for Whole Tire

A Complete
Tire Model Has
Approximately
450,000
Elements
= 980 days = 2.7 years
Fully Treaded Rolling and Cornering Model

1,200,000,000,000,000 Calculations - 30 seconds on Sandia’s Red Storm

Small, smart things are among us.
The future of
microelectronics
Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography:
System Modeling Stage
Main chamber
thermal model

Illuminator
chamber
thermal model
Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography:
Looking Inside
Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography:
Silicon Simulation
Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography:
Ultralow Expansion Glass Simulation
Predictive science-based
engineering

Knowing…understanding
Engineering the invisible

Human hair
MESA: A revolution in the making
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies:
Getting to the bottom of it
Today, we are engineering
at the nanoscale.
B

Predicted
Observed

50 atoms wide
Training the next generation
of engineers
 Advancing the practice
of engineering Sandia
Computing
Capacity
Million operations per second

1996 200,000
1997 2,000,000
1998 5,000,000
2003 15,000,000
2004 30,000,000
2005 140,000,000
2006 220,000,000

Discovery
Simulation
Validation
Creation
Innovation
The Engineer of 2020
Rethinking how engineers are trained
 Painting the Future
Call to Leadership

Time isn’t what it

used to be.