Blazing Trails - Finite Element Pioneers in Milwaukee - Paul Bodine

During the late 1950s and the 1960s, Vern Overbye and John Brauer joined with four other engineers of diverse backgrounds at A.O. Smith s corporate headquarters in Milwaukee to embark on an unprecedented and unanticipated path of innovation. Each had an advanced degree and, more importantly, each had an entrepreneurial spirit. With their forward-looking, optimistic manager at Smith s Data Systems Division, Robert Y. Bodine, they built a path-breaking business in the fledgling technology of finite..