Robert R. Ryan

DR. ROBERT R. RYAN accepted the role of Chief Operating Officer of
worldwide operations for Mechanical Dynamics, Inc. in 1991, and was
appointed President in 1997. Dr. Ryan began his career in software sales
at Structural Dynamics Research Corporation in Cincinnati, OH in 1976.
After helping SDRC form an aerospace business unit in San Diego, CA, he
worked as an independent consultant for NASA’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratories, Applied Information Memories, Failure Analysis Associates,
General Motors Corporation, and Chrysler Corporation, before joining the
faculty of the University of Michigan in 1986. He came to Mechanical
Dynamics in 1988. Dr. Ryan received a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
and Business from the University of Cincinnati, and holds an MS and a
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.