After an exhaustive two month search, CD-adapco today announced the winner of their "2008 CAE Guru Competition." Now in its second year, the competition was designed to highlight the best in CAE post-processing, providing captivating CAE images for publication in an exclusive desktop calendar. To see the winning images, and to claim one of 500 free calendars, please visit the link below.

Stephen Ferguson, CD-adapco's Head of Marketing Communications, explains:

"The quality of entries to the 2008 competition was staggering, which is a reflection both on the sophistication of our user-base and of the technological capability of our software. The ability to communicate engineering information, while engaging with an increasingly non-specialist audience, is a key skill for any CAE analyst. The entrants to this competition have demonstrated that, although people are becoming increasingly familiar with simulation generated imagery, a carefully generated CAE image still has the power to captivate."

Choosing from a large selection of entries, a jury of senior CD-adapco staff finally named Danfoss Comfort Controls Flow Specialist Per Adamson as the overall winner, for his simulation of flow through a pre-setting valve. Although clearly delighted at his victory, newly crowned Guru Per was clearly somewhat shocked to win: "I am a little bit amazed to hear that my entry was special enough to win, considering what I had planned in the beginning. But that just makes me even more confident for next year's competition!"

As a reward for his achievement, Per will be attending a 2008 Grand Prix as the guest of CD-adapco and the Renault F1 Team.

Click here to view all of the winning entries and to request one of 500 FREE CAE calendars.