SOLIDWORKS Certification Exams Help Educators and Their Students

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It’s November and the school year is flying by! Now is the time to be thinking about the last quiz or exam you will give your students for your engineering design, simulation, or manufacturing course before year’s end.

That is where the SOLIDWORKS Certification Academic program comes in to help educators and their students.  Qualified schools on SOLIDWORKS subscription can give 20+ certification exams in a proctored setting to students enrolled in their classes.  And our SOLIDWORKS Certification exams are FREE to your students.

As an educator, creating exams take time – especially for multiple sections and courses.  In today’s competitive job market, your students need every advantage they can get.  The SOLIDWORKS Certification Program gives your students a proven edge for employment and gives you time to concentrate on student success – and not creating exams.

What are SOLIDWORKS Certifications?

  • SOLIDWORKS certifications are benchmarks to measure your knowledge and competency with SOLIDWORKS software.
  • SOLIDWORKS certifications establish an industry standard by which SOLIDWORKS professionals are evaluated through a fair, comprehensive test of your knowledge of SOLIDWORKS in Mechanical Design and Design Validation.
  • Hiring managers can be confident in their decision to hire a certified candidate reducing the time it takes to bring a new team member on board.

The SOLIDWORKS Academic Certification Provider program

  • Provides qualified students to our commercial customers through SOLIDWORKS Certifications
  • Give educators the tools to help students learn and prove design & validation competencies with SOLIDWORKS Certifications & Learning Content.
  • 25 SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE certification exams
  • Free to schools on subscription
  • Minimum number of licenses vary by geography – so contact your SOLIDWORKS Partner/Value Added Reseller

What are Certification Exams Like?

  • Multiple choice, Fill in the blank and Hands on questions
  • Multiple iterations of questions – a design change
  • Applied design, documentation, manufacturing & engineering theory in exams
  • Automatically graded and randomized
  • MySolidWorks for Students with free Home Use Licenses and Exam Prep Content

 

 

SOLIDWORKS Certification Exams

 

3DEXPERIENCE Certification Exams part of the 3DEXPERIENCE Works Portfolio

Schools on subscription, with minimum license requirements per region, can register to become a SOLIDWORKS Academic Provider.  The process is easy.  You will receive step-by-step instructions to create an exam opportunity, manage your students’ exams and scores, show areas for improvement and success.

Exam problems are random and automatically graded.  Class results can be saved to an Excel spreadsheet.

DASSAULT SYSTEMES 3DEXPERIENCE Certification Center

 

For your students, they can upload their credentials to the 3DEXPERIENCE Certification Testing Center.

And what about a certificate?  Certificates, with a unique identifier and QR code, are also created.

In the Certification Center, employers can search by country and level of exam that students completed.  The number of stars indicate how many certifications have been achieve.  Students can make a connection between the certification and their Linked-in profiles.

Certifications stay with the student as they develop their career.  Now a graduate, your former student can take more exams since they have proven basic competencies. New 3DEXPERIENCE Certification combinations lead to Credly badges through your Linked-in profile. How do you create an exam that tests students’ ability to manage cloud data? Let us help you by giving the opportunity for students to take the same exams we offer to industry professionals.

No matter where your students go after they graduate, the record of their certifications stays with them.  As they develop more skills over their careers, additional certification exams continue to validate their skills to employers and themselves.  Last week I took the new 3DEXPERIENCE Collaborative Designer for SOLIDWORKS certification exam.  For over 20 years, my certificates are listed in my profile.

Next Steps

To get started, go to www.solidworks.com/academic-certification. Fill out the SOLIDWORKS Academic Provider application.

 

For Students with No Access to SOLIDWORKS

If you are a student and have no access to SOLIDWORKS, you can purchase the SOLIDWORKS Student Edition and get two certification exam credits, SOLIDWORKS Associate Mechanical Design (CSWA) and SOLIDWORKS Professional Mechanical Design (CSWP), for free.

 

On a Personal Note

I have seen first-hand how certification helped my students with interviews, jobs and becoming teaching assistants/tutors. CSWA not only showcases fundamental SOLIDWORKS skills but also engineering design competencies such as “Can you read a drawing?” and “Can you correctly modify a model?”

If you teach a Finite Element or structural analysis course, take a look at the CSWA-Simulation exam.  Not only do you have to develop a simulation study, but you have to understand the results based on theory.  It’s one of my favorites for an engineering student.

SOLIDWORKS Certifications are like money in the bank – you never know when you are going to need it!

 

Design well.  Marie

 

Marie Planchard

Marie Planchard

Senior Director, Early Engagement, 3DEXPERIENCE Works at Dassault Systemes
Marie Planchard is an education and engineering advocate. As Senior Director of Education & Early Engagement, SOLIDWORKS, she is responsible for global development of content and social outreach for the 3DEXPERIENCE Works products across all levels of learning including educational institutions, Fab Labs, and entrepreneurship.
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