Author Archives: mike mcgrail
Sabine Gossart and Sue Evans are helping turn the engineering men’s club co-ed
Two women in the SolidWorks community have made this year’s CRN magazine list of the technology reseller channel’s female movers and shakers. CRN has named Sabine Gossart, DS SolidWorks’ vice president, worldwide channel marketing and MCAD Technologies CEO Sue Evans
... ContinuedTerrafugia’s car/airplane hybrid soars on latest FAA ruling
SolidWorks customer Terrafugia is one step closer to bringing aircraft to a garage on your street. Maybe even your own driveway. News comes from the UK publication The Register that the FAA recently designated Terrafugia’s Transition combination aircraft/road
... ContinuedSolidWorks customer Montech AG puts another loop in the ‘green’ belt
Montech AG doesn't look like a “green” company at first glance. Based in Switzerland, the SolidWorks customer designs and manufactures conveyor systems for production facilities – a pretty standard product in an industrial economy, albeit with the many innovations Montech
... ContinuedOlympic skeleton racer’s comeback trail ran through SolidWorks
Skeleton sleds aren’t the kind of item you pick up at the local Dick’s Sporting Goods. Sleds have to respond precisely to subtle body shifts that racers use to steer them around sharp curves as the racers shoot down icy
... ContinuedeSolar’s shine carries through into 2010
SolidWorks customer eSolar is probably one of the only companies that can say “we had a great 2009” without an accompanying eye roll to underscore the irony. But when most of the country was marinating in red ink, eSolar opened
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