Russell S. Peak Russell S. Peak is a Senior Researcher in the Manufacturing Research Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received all his degrees from Georgia Tech in the School of Mechanical Engineering. His industrial experience includes business telephone design at AT&T Bell Laboratories and analysis integration investigation as a Visiting Researcher at the Hitachi Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory in Japan. Dr. Peak is the lead developer of constrained objects (COBs), the multi-representation architecture (MRA) for CAD-CAE interoperability, and context-based analysis models (CBAMs) - a knowledge pattern that explicitly captures design-analysis associativity using object and constraint graph techniques. His research specialty is analysis integration for simulation-based design (SBD), with applications including electronic packaging and structural analysis. He has authored and co-authored a variety of publications, holds several U. S. patents, and is a member of ASME, IEEE, and the U. S. Association of Computational Mechanics. He serves on the Technical Advisory Committee of PDES Inc., an international consortium furthering the development and usage of engineering information technology standards.