Balaji Chandrasekaran
Territory Technical Manager, Analysis Products, Midwest
SolidWorks

Balaji Chandrasekaran is the Territory Technical Manager, Analysis Products, Midwest for Solidworks, the leading worldwide supplier of 3D CAD technology and analysis tools.

In that role, Balaji is responsible for supporting SolidWorks Value-Added Resellers and their customers as they adopt “leading edge” tools to enhance their productivity and become optimally efficient through effective design analysis, and validation.

Balaji brings over 6 years of design analysis experience to his role at SolidWorks.

Balaji first joined the corporation in 2001 as a Technical Support Engineer, assisting a wide range of customers, who worked with COSMOS Analysis Products. From there, he was promoted into the SolidWorks Quality Assurance and Research & Development organization in California, where he focused on developing “real world” test scenarios and executing them, to vigorously eliminate potential quality
issues in the COSMOS analysis software modules. After four years in that role, he was promoted to his current position in the Midwest.

Balaji has a Bachelors degree, and a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering and CAD/CAM/FEA, both earned with honors. While completing his Masters at the University of Missouri, he also worked as a teaching assistant for the Pro-E and Catia courses there. Additionally, Balaji is the published author of “An Inductive Approach to Product Design Based on Modular Product Architecture and a connected paper: (Chandarsekaran, B., Stone, R. and McAdams, D., 2004,) “Developing Design Templates for Product Platform Focused Design,” Journal of Engineering Design, 15(2):1-19.

Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Balaji supports all Midwestern clients and VARS. He is a regular speaker and presenter at SolidWorks World events and many COSMOS User Group and prospect events.

Chris Schaefer
COSMOS Core, Advanced, and Instructor Certified
Applications Engineer
Graphics Systems Corporation

Chris Schaefer earned a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University with an emphasis in designing with CAE software. His work experience includes product design and development for such industries as consumer products, medical, and automotive. He has been using SolidWorks since release 2000 and began working as an Applications Engineer for Graphics Systems for over two years.

Chris is a leading COSMOS Certified Engineer earning all possible certifications offered by SolidWorks including: Core, Advanced, and Instructor Certifications.