Chris Tunney
Director in Dassault Systemes North America Academic Team, Dassault Systèmes
Chris Tunney is listed as Director in Dassault Systemes North America Academic Team, Dassault Systèmes. Chris spoke at International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition 2026 in November 2026 (speaker, “Virtual Twins for Teaching and Research: Preparing Engineering Students for Collaborative, Model-Based Product Development, including CAD and simulation, on the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE Platform”). Speaks mainly at Education events.
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About
Chris Tunney is a manager in the Dassault Systèmes Academic / Workforce of the Future group, where he works with universities to bring virtual twin and simulation technologies into engineering education. He has over 30 years of experience in digital simulation, including finite element analysis (FEA), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), motion simulation (multi-body dynamics, MBD), and related virtual twin applications, and has taught numerous professional courses on finite element analysis. During more than 15 years with Dassault Systèmes, he supported the North American aerospace and defense industry before moving into his current role. Chris holds a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in California.