education
Tech in the Classroom: Tomorrow’s Teaching Today
Do you remember your school days? Those memories may encompass chalkboards, textbooks and overhead projectors. Yet one peek into a modern classroom reveals the generational leap that academia has made since the arrival of the digital age. Levelling-up learning The
... ContinuedThe Evolution of Tennis: How Technology is Advancing the Game
Wimbledon’s two weeks of top-tier tennis is thrilling sports fans worldwide this July. Yet despite lawn tennis harking back over 150 years, the extent to which today’s game employs modern technology may just surprise you – and it’s pushing the
... ContinuedKeep On (Monster) Truckin’: Speeding Towards the Finish Line
Keep On (Monster) Truckin’ is an ongoing series dedicated to updating our readers on the progress of the SOLIDWORKS R&D’s Magic Wheelchair project.
... ContinuedPlantscrapers and Robotic Bees: Is This the Future of Food?
You didn’t think you’d be eating cheese sandwiches and steak forever did you? Population pressures mean the menu of the future may look very different – and new technologies are helping food scientists get creative. It’s impossible to predict
... ContinuedDesigning and Building the Solar-Powered Car of the Future
Read about how students from Singapore Polytechnic students used SOLIDWORKS to design and build a futuristic two-seater, fiber-composite, solar-powered electric vehicle: SunSPEC5.
... ContinuedChild’s Play: How Modern Toys are Engaging Kids with STEM Subjects
What toys will your child play with during the next school holidays? Chances are they’ll be big, bright and lots of fun. But what’s the future of kid’s toys – and does the increasing digitization of playtime help or hinder
... ContinuedEngineering is the key to the future of deep sea exploration
The deep sea is a mysterious place. A place that science knows very little about. Modern engineering is here to change that, with a new wave of sophisticated technology that is allowing us to learn more about the deep sea
... ContinuedBenjamin Weir: A Knack for Perfection
Read this Q&A with Benjamin Weir to learn more about his current portfolio of designs, his familiarity with SOLIDWORKS, and future projects he is working on.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS 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,
... ContinuedNew Meets Nature: Can Modern Engineering Preserve the Natural World?
Yikes. Sometimes it feels like each technological innovation moves us further from our natural world. Yet exciting modern engineering projects are connecting the past and the future like never before… Temporal conundrums… The further we race
... ContinuedChanging the Perception of Engineers
Imagine an engineer. Who are they? What do they look like? What do they do? When prompted, most will picture a bespectacled white male grasping a pencil and a calculator. It’s a perception that’s got to change because it’s a
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS in Rwanda: Are We Making a Difference?
An update on the students at the SOLIDWORKS FabLab in Rwanda.
... ContinuedPrinting Parts: How 3D Printing Has Gone From Gimmick To Medical Marvel
The technical marvel that seemingly performs miracles, 3D printing continues to make the news. Although it’s been around for longer than you might have thought, the process has only really started to make waves over the past decade. Ink and
... ContinuedGig ‘Em 2: The Summer’s Most Exciting Entrepreneurial Engineer
Last year, our Community and User Advocacy Manager, Rachel York, interviewed a mechanical engineering entrepreneur from Texas A&M University, who used SOLIDWORKS to help create his own business. This year, Rachel and I wanted to catch up with him. This
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids Make a Noise at Maker Faire
Tiny children have the biggest ideas. A child’s mind is an astonishing hive of creativity. SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids harnesses that invention and turns it into reality and was abundantly demonstrated at Maker Faire 2017, little minds find SOLIDWORKS Apps
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