Dr. Timothy J. Tautges received his PhD in Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990, performing his dissertation on parallel computing applications to nuclear reactor safety. After a one year visiting scientist position at CEC Joint Research Centre, Isrpa, Italy, he joined Sandia National Labs. For the past twelve years, Dr. Tautges has performed research and development on mesh generation algorithms, geometry for mesh generation, and component-based geometry and meshing. Dr. Tautges lead the CUBIT mesh generation project at Sandia from 1996-1998. For the past eight years, Dr. Tautges has telecommuted from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he holds an adjunct professor appointment in Engineering Physics.