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SOLIDWORKS World 2018 – Student Success In and Out of the Classroom

By Marie Planchard February 6, 2018
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SOLIDWORKS World 2018 – Student Success In and Out of the Classroom

SOLIDWORKS World celebrates our community of Educators, Students, Makers, and Researchers.  In and out of the classroom, SOLIDWORKS is preparing skilled students to get the best jobs. We couldn’t achieve this success without the help of educators from university, college,

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Educational Ubiquity: Why Engineering Competitions Work

By Marie Planchard February 7, 2017
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Educational Ubiquity: Why Engineering Competitions Work

SOLIDWORKS is used daily by students, educators and researchers worldwide. As a result, SOLIDWORKS is everywhere. Researchers at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan use SOLIDWORKS to design 21-degree-of-freedom robots to navigate through natural disasters. In the SOFIA Project scientists from

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SOLIDWORKS Education Edition Academic Year 2016-2017 Innovation Platform For Educators & Students

By Marie Planchard May 6, 2016
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SOLIDWORKS Education Edition Academic Year 2016-2017 Innovation Platform For Educators & Students

The new SOLIDWORKS Education Edition, Academic Year 2016-2017 gives educators and students an innovation platform of software tools to make great designs happen. Based on SOLIDWORKS Premium 2016, we continue to prepare the best students for the best jobs for

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Student Success in Education and Research Showcased at SOLIDWORKS WORLD

By Marie Planchard February 2, 2016
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Student Success in Education and Research Showcased at SOLIDWORKS WORLD

It’s SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2016, time to celebrate with students, educators, and researchers that SOLIDWORKS is everywhere. Certification is center stage today. The Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate (CSWA) Academic program has created 70,000 CSWAs and now qualified schools on subscription that provide the

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SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2016 for Entrepreneurs

By Marie Planchard January 12, 2016
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SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2016 for Entrepreneurs

Are you thinking about a new product idea, need pointers on how to get funding, or want learn from other creative start-ups? SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2016 will feature a new event for entrepreneurs at all stages of development to help prepare you for business

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SOLIDWORKS Education Edition 2015-2016 – The Innovation Revolution

By Marie Planchard May 6, 2015
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SOLIDWORKS Education Edition 2015-2016 – The Innovation Revolution

The SOLIDWORKS Education Edition 2015 – 2016 has ignited a new Innovation revolution in the world of engineering and design education. Based on SOLIDWORKS Premium 2015 and the SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2015 Portfolio, educators and students have access to the latest in SOLIDWORKS technology and

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SOLIDWORKS Education Reaches the 2 Million Licenses Milestone

By Marie Planchard February 10, 2015
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SOLIDWORKS Education Reaches the 2 Million Licenses Milestone

At SOLIDWORKS World 2015 we announced today that 2 million licenses of the SOLIDWORKS Education Edition are installed in educational institutions all over the world.  What does that mean?  Simply put, SOLIDWORKS has changed how students and educators think about

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Girls and Their Toys

By Marie Planchard December 9, 2014
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Girls and Their Toys

Do you remember your favorite toy growing up, building blocks, a big toy truck, a special doll? For me it was a slot car race track! At the time, the box was bigger than me. I spent the entire winter

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SolidWorks Sponsors US FIRST Robotics Teams

By Marie Planchard December 18, 2013
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SolidWorks Sponsors US FIRST Robotics Teams

Robots are everywhere. Our commercial customers design and manufacture great robots and automation systems. Now all US FIRST teams can use the same software tools as our commercial customers. Use our easy application apply for sponsorship process for SolidWorks Sponsorship

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SolidWorks Education hosts Regional NASCAR STEM Student Racing Challenge

By Marie Planchard March 26, 2012
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SolidWorks Education hosts Regional NASCAR STEM Student Racing Challenge

STEM – Science Technology Engineering and Math.  If you combine these subjects with RC Racing,  Tony Schumacher – U.S. Army Top Fuel Dragster and seven-time champion and SolidWorks customer, 25 engineers from the US army and community, along with a great

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SolidWorks 2012 – The Wow Feeling

By Marie Planchard September 14, 2011
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SolidWorks 2012 – The Wow Feeling

As SolidWorks celebrates its 20th release, SolidWorks 2012 fills me with another “wow” feeling.  The “wow” feeling of that this release contains something special.  This SolidWorks 2012 release will change behavior on how you design. 

SolidWorks 2012 Costing 

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New SolidWorks tutorials page available on SolidWorks.com

By Marie Planchard February 16, 2011
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New SolidWorks tutorials page available on SolidWorks.com

One of the things I learned from being a college professor is that people learn in different ways; perhaps you like to read, watch a video, or follow along with the 100’s of step-by-step tutorials inside SolidWorks software and SolidWorks

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Genius grant goes to outstanding engineering educator

By Marie Planchard October 1, 2010
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Genius grant goes to outstanding engineering educator

Deepest congratulations to Amir Abo-Shaeer, inspiration to the next generation of engineers and new recipient of a $500,000 no-strings-attached MacArthur Genius Grant.  Abo-Shaeer was selected for his ground-breaking work as a physics teacher and founder of the Dos Pueblos Engineering

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The “DOT it” Student Design Project

By Marie Planchard February 24, 2009
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The winter in New England is especially cold, snowy, and icy this year. But for one day sunny warm day last week, I was fortunate enough to visit a small café in Cambridge, Massachusetts and sit with a group of

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SolidWorks EDU team participates in American Society Engineering Education EDGD Mid Year Conference

By Marie Planchard January 28, 2009
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As I start my third year at SolidWorks, I want to share with you what the SolidWorks education team does to support educators and students around the world. I just got back from the American Society of Engineering Education Engineering

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