{"id":789,"date":"2009-09-02T10:41:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T14:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/i-recently-sat-down-with-oboe-wu-the-product-manager-who--has-been-overseeing-the-deployment-of-the-solidworks-engineeri"},"modified":"2009-09-02T10:41:49","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T14:41:49","slug":"i-recently-sat-down-with-oboe-wu-the-product-manager-who-has-been-overseeing-the-deployment-of-the-solidworks-engineeri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2009\/09\/i-recently-sat-down-with-oboe-wu-the-product-manager-who-has-been-overseeing-the-deployment-of-the-solidworks-engineeri.html","title":{"rendered":"An update on the SolidWorks Engineering Stimulus Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I recently sat down with Oboe Wu, the product manager who<br \/>\nhas been overseeing the deployment of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/esp\/engineering_stimulus_package.html\"> SolidWorks Engineering Stimulus Package<\/a> (ESP) to discuss the results. You may recall that we previewed this at<br \/>\nSolidWorks World in Orlando. It was subsequently&#0160;deployed in North<br \/>\nAmerica, Europe, and parts of Asia. The goal was to provide engineers who had<br \/>\nlost their jobs an opportunity&#8211;for free&#8211;to develop the next generation of<br \/>\nskills that would land them a new career at a SolidWorks customer site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The results that Oboe shared with me are staggering, and a<br \/>\nsobering comment on the health of our market right now. The fast facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over 24,000 download requests<\/li>\n<li>More than 60,000 visits to the ESP website<\/li>\n<li>Over 150 newly certified CSWAs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There was also an encouraging sign. In a recent survey of<br \/>\nusers we learned that 10.6% of the ESP participants had secured a new job. And<br \/>\nthis reached across geopolitical borders: 14 different languages were<br \/>\ndownloaded in ten countries around the world. The largest group<br \/>\nof&#0160;participants was 2D-centric engineers who had lost their jobs, and were<br \/>\nlooking for greater opportunity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So those are the facts. But, as they say, behind each number<br \/>\nis a personal story of frustration, hope, and, ultimately, triumph. I recently<br \/>\nattended a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/\">SolidWorks User Group<\/a><br \/>\nmeeting in California and joined a dozen engineers at a table for some pizza<br \/>\nbefore the event. I did not identify myself, just saying I was &quot;with SolidWorks.&quot;<br \/>\nOne diner reached across the table and shook my hand, saying &quot;please thank<br \/>\nthe people who made the ESP possible&#8230;I was laid off and saw no real hope for<br \/>\nmy future. I learned the new skills and am now actively pursuing several jobs<br \/>\nthat were never available to me before.&quot; While we discussed his<br \/>\nexperience, several customers offered to take his resume back to their<br \/>\ncompanies and circulate it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The real stars in this are the SolidWorks resellers. They<br \/>\nare the ones who opened up their training facilities and instructors at no cost<br \/>\nto the participants and have worked hard to arm the attendees with the skills<br \/>\nthey need&#0160;to succeed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">To all of you: thank you for putting your trust in us in the<br \/>\npast. We hope we can continue to find ways to pay back that investment you have<br \/>\nmade. I don&#39;t know how long we&#39;ll be in this recession, or how deep it will go.<br \/>\nBut I believe in the power of the human spirit to grow and reach up&#8211;and<br \/>\nsucceed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently sat down with Oboe Wu, the product manager who has been overseeing the deployment of the SolidWorks Engineering Stimulus Package (ESP) to discuss the results. You may recall that we previewed this at SolidWorks World in Orlando. It<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2009\/09\/i-recently-sat-down-with-oboe-wu-the-product-manager-who-has-been-overseeing-the-deployment-of-the-solidworks-engineeri.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[671,19],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-engineering-stimulus-package","tag-solidworks-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}