ASME PITTSBURGH SECTION HONORS ALGOR, INC. WITH INDUSTRY RECOGNITION AWARD

Algor President Michael L. Bussler accepts The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Industry Recognition award from Albert Bouvy, Pittsburgh Section honors and awards chairman, at the annual ASME Pittsburgh Section awards banquet. Algor was honored with the award for its significant contributions to the mechanical engineering profession and its local support of technical societies. (Photographer Photo.)

PITTSBURGH, PA – June 8, 2000 – Algor, Inc., a leading maker of mechanical engineering software, was recently recognized by the Pittsburgh Section of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for making a significant impact on the mechanical engineering profession at both a local and international level. At an awards banquet held at the Engineer’s Society of Western Pennsylvania, Michael L. Bussler, president and CEO of Algor, accepted the annual ASME Region V Industry Recognition award on behalf of the company.

"This award attests to Algor’s commitment to advancing high technology through both our innovative finite element analysis and Mechanical Event Simulation software products and our regional support of ASME," said Bussler, who also serves as a Pittsburgh Section director. "Our continued support of employee involvement in technical societies will fortify our engineering software development effort for years to come."

According to Albert Bouvy, ASME Pittsburgh Section honors and awards chairman, Algor was a prime candidate for the award. "A major factor in our decision to recognize Algor with this award was the company’s long-time support of the ASME Pittsburgh Section and the technical community as a whole," Bouvy said. "Algor has been very active through contributions of both time and resources."

Specifically, Bouvy noted that Algor engineers have made presentations at Section meetings, held ASME offices and served on the Section Executive Committee with the full support of the company. In addition, Algor has provided its facilities for ASME meetings, educational purposes and tours. Finally, Algor is a supporter and contributor to local and national ASME publications.

In addition to this most recent industry recognition, Algor’s innovative Mechanical Event Simulation software earned Bussler the 1999 Scientist Award from the Carnegie Science Center. The award recognizes outstanding scientific accomplishments that have economically benefited Southwestern Pennsylvania. Mechanical Event Simulation is the only software that predicts stress results directly from the flexible-body motion of a finite element model.

Algor has been a leader in the engineering software industry since introducing FEA for PCs in 1984 and interfacing with CAD systems in 1985. The company provides innovative, affordable and easy-to-use software products that have enabled 20,000 engineers in 60 countries to create safe, efficient, cost-effective designs. Algor also offers superior educational support and customer service that includes the use of state-of-the-art Internet audio/video technology for "Web Courses," which provide step-by-step software instruction, and free public "Webcasts" in live demonstration format.

Algor’s product line features FEA-based Accupak/VE Mechanical Event Simulation software. Accupak/VE reduces the need for physical prototyping and eliminates the need to input dynamic loads by determining the motion, flexing and resulting stresses of a part or assembly at each instant of an event. Algor’s proprietary kinematic element technology makes performing Mechanical Event Simulations using CAD solid parts and assemblies practical for realistic, accurate results. Engineers can use Algor’s InCAD^Plus and InCAD DesignPak products to seamlessly capture exact CAD geometry from popular CAD systems within Algor. The company also offers linear stress, vibration, heat transfer, electrostatic, fluid flow, composite materials and piping systems analysis tools. Algor’s software interchanges data with products from ANSYS, Inc. (Nasdaq:ANSS), Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADSK), CADKEY Corporation, MSC.Software Corporation (NYSE:MNS), Parametric Technology Corporation, Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, Unigraphics Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:UGS), SolidWorks Corporation, a Dassault Systemes S.A. (Nasdaq:DASTY) company, and others.