100 Use Cases Later: What AI Has Taught Us About Engineering

Presentation by Ujwal Patnaik, Global Senior Director, Product Strategy, GTM, and Pricing at Altair as part of the 2025 ATCx AI for Engineers conference.

This isn’t about what AI might do. It’s about what it already is doing—across design, simulation, testing, manufacturing, and operations. In this session, we go beyond the hype and into the field: 100 engineering use cases, all real, all working. These examples, from crash simulation to battery health prediction to HVAC optimization, reveal a bigger truth: AI isn’t just a tool. It’s becoming a new way of engineering.

We won’t walk through each use case. We’ll decode them. Expect stories, insights, and questions, not a list. Because once you’ve seen what 100 real AI solutions look like, the real question becomes: What’s stopping you from doing the 101st?