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Bring Your Kids to Get Creative with SOLIDWORKS at Maker Faire UK
Little minds love to create, little fingers love to make. That’s why we’re so proud of SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids. It’s a suite of pick-up-and-play design applications that gets creative kids engaged with visualising, designing and making. Gather up your
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids Update
Last year, we announced our intentions of bringing bite-size experiences of the design process to a generation of young creators. Private Beta invitations were sent out in waves to more than 4,300 registered individuals. We have since gotten off to
... ContinuedEducational 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
... ContinuedGet Ready to Robo Rumble at SOLIDWORKS World 2017
For the first time ever at SOLIDWORKS World, student teams will fire up their robots to battle for the title of Robo Rumble champion.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS World 2017 Product Showcase Preview: See Education Users in Action
The SOLIDWORKS World Product Showcase is the place to see the diverse projects brought to life by the best community in CAD. In the past we’ve seen everything from pinball machines to lunar landers and this year is no different.
... ContinuedProject Nevada: Plymouth University Goes for Land Speed Record in Nevada
Forget your fast cars and questionable acting performances. Plymouth University has a different need for speed. Namely to smash the land speed record at the World Human Powered Speed Challenge (WHPSC) in the heat of Nevada this September. You may
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS 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
... Continued6 Great Reasons to Study Engineering at University
You’re already thinking about it Well, you’re here aren’t you? Fantastic! It means you already have an active interest in engineering. Building on something you hold a passion for is the perfect start to your higher education study. If you
... Continued8 of the Biggest Challenges Facing UK Engineering in 2016
Engineers are a prescient bunch, equipped with a knack for taking the long view. It comes with the territory, yet making headway on the upcoming challenges facing the engineering industry means narrowing the focus and taking action in 2016. Here
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS and the F1 Engineers of Tomorrow
If the saying “you are a product of your environment” is true, everything you see, do and hear influences the person you are. So if your dream is to be an F1 engineer, it makes good sense to start designing and
... ContinuedWest Sussex pupils race across Australia with SOLIDWORKS
Handing a Lotus 7 to a group of teenagers sounds like a recipe for disaster. Not so for the pupils of Ardingly College in West Sussex, who took the chassis and spent three years building a solar electric vehicle, before
... ContinuedStudent 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
... ContinuedNew Online Environment Links Engineering Students Up With Businesses
There has been a lot of discussion among companies hiring newly graduated engineering students that this new class of millennials is not adequately prepared for work in the real world; that they lack relevant problem-solving and critical thinking skills. One
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids Hopes to Encourage Pursuit of STEM Careers
As announced today at SOLIDWORKS WORLD, SOLIDWORKS engineers and designers has been busy creating a collection of apps for their own kids to get them excited about design and art with Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). The SOLIDWORKS Apps
... ContinuedInspiring Students through SOLIDWORKS Certification
Today at SOLIDWORKS World 2016 in Dallas, Texas, more than 350 hopefuls will be attempting SOLIDWORKS certification exams. There are another 180+ on the waiting list, hoping to get into a room. I wish you all the best of luck,
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