Vitae

Eric Béchet
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Liège
Bldg. B52, 4000 Liège - Belgium
Office : +32 (0)4 366 9165

Cell : +32 (0)479 175 426
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35 years old, Canadian and French citizenships, Married, 1 child

Professional Background

2008-present – On academic leave at Université de Liège (Belgium)

2005-present – Assistant professor at Université de Metz (France)

2006 – Invited researcher at Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany)

2002-2005 – Post-doctoral fellow at Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France)

1998-2002 – Ph.D Student at École Polytechnique de Montréal (Canada)

1997-1998 – French military duty – Scientific coop in the French military industry (field : fiber reinforced plastics (FRP) and finite element modeling)

Academic Titles

2002 – Philosophiae Doctor, École Polytechnique de Montréal (Canada).

Title : Solving of a free surface problem with an adaptive an anisotropic re-meshing algorithm

Original Title : Résolution d'un problème aux limites à frontières libres au moyen d'un algorithme de remaillage adaptatif et anisotrope

Advisers : François Trochu and Jean-Christophe Cuillière

Defense committee : Ricardo Camarero (École Polytechnique, president), Francois Trochu (École Polytechnique), Jean-Christophe Cuillière (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières), Daniel Leroux (Université Laval), François Guibault (École Polytechnique).

1997 – M.Sc (French DEA) in mechanical engineering, Doctoral school PROMEN (Nancy, France), with honours.

1997 – B.Sc in mechanical engineering and numerical modeling at ESSTIN (Nancy, France).

Teaching Experience

Cumulated experience : around 1200 hours.

2008-present – Computer graphics, CAD, mesh generation, ...

2005-2008 – Various teachings at Université de Metz : Maple(r), Finite elements, Strength of materials, C++, ...

1999-2002 – ING1025 (3 cr.) at Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal : Computer science (Undergraduate level). Lecturer and also responsible for the labs. This course has been taught for 7 semesters (approx. 6 hours per week).

1999 – MAT115 (3 cr.) at Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal : Engineering Mathematics (undergraduate). Responsible for labs. Taught for one semester (2 hours per week).

1999-2002 – Some replacements in the mechanical engineering department (Machine parts / Power Transmissions).

Research and publications

Keywords : Mechanical engineering, Finite element method, Mesh generation, Extended finite element methods (X-FEM, P.U.M), Fracture mechanics, Free surface fluid motion, implementation of the finite element method in a modern software engineering context (OOP, Generic programming, C++). Parallel grid computing (MPI with myrinet).

• 11 publications in international journals

• 1 articles in preparation

• 1 chapter in a collective book

• 16 communications with proceedings (9 international and 7 national)

• 5 invited talks
  

Research management and collaborations

• Active collaborations with research institutes in Germany, Canada, Luxembourg.

• Ph.D main adviser, Subject : Simulations in ambient space : An application of partition-of-unity methods to mesh independent mechanical engineering simulations, Planned defense in 2010, Université de Metz.

• M.Sc Advisor, Subject : Dynamic crack propagation with the X-FEM for brittle materials, 2007, Université de Metz.

• Ph.D Co-adviser, Subject : A new numerical approach for the life duration computation of reactor discs, Defended in October 2006, École centrale de Nantes.

• Ph.D Co-adviser, Subject : Finite element modeling of hydraulic efforts during tossing, Defended in October 2005 , École centrale de Nantes.

• M.Sc Co-adviser, Subject : Obtaining Stress intensity factors for an emerging crack with X-FEM, 2003, École Centrale de Nantes.

• Reviewed various articles in International Journal for numerical methods in engineering and the International Journal for Numerical methods in Fluids.
  

Industrial relations

• Goodyear (Luxembourg) to be finalized (planned in 2008)

• Snecma Moteurs : I took part in the research project shared by Snecma, Ecole centrale de Nantes and others : «fatigue life of reactors», 2003-2004.

• E.S.I. : Development contract for the PAM-RTM simulation code (resin injection simulations for FRP), 2001-2002.

• P. Patrick S.A. : Development contracts for a cam numerical analysis tool for weaving machinery (textile industry), 1996 and 1997.

Scientific computing knowledge

• Long experience in C++ , Object Oriented and Generic Programming, Parallel Computing

• Set up of collaborative development infrastructure (CVS, Subversion )

• Development and maintenance of an object oriented finite element code and support for academic and graduate students using it

• High Performance Computing platforms (parallel computers, research network, Linux & free software)

• Linux administration

Misc

- Languages : French (mothertongue), German and English (fluent); beginner in Chinese (written and spoken).