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Terry Day: The Origins of CRASH and SMAC, Founding EDC, Building HVE, and the Art of the Simulation Match
Terry Day is the founder of Engineering Dynamics Corporation (EDC) and the creator of HVE, EDCRASH, EDSMAC, and SIMON. A native of Coos Bay, Oregon, he earned two mechanical engineering degrees from Oregon State and a master’s from the University of Michigan’s Highway Safety Research Institute, where he studied the NHTSA-funded CRASH, SMAC, and HVOSM mainframe codes. After starting his career in failure analysis and accident reconstruction in Portland, he founded EDC in 1982 to bring those programs to the IBM PC, releasing EDCRASH in 1984, and later led the five-year development of HVE and…
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