Author Archives: Marie Planchard
Memorial Day – D-Day’s Reflection
This Memorial Day weekend brings thousands to the Boston Common at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument to see the 37,000 US flags, provided by the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund. The Flag Garden is planted in memory of Massachusetts service men and
... ContinuedBaja SAE Kansas – There’s No Place Like Home
Baja SAE – one of the most exciting engineering events of the competitive season. For Baja SAE KANSAS, Pittsburgh State University, Pittsburgh, KS, USA, has opened its doors to its hometown and state-of-the-art technology center to engineering teams from around
... ContinuedSolidWorks China Education VARs Support Teachers and Their Students
Support. Teachers need support and training. Our education Value Added Resellers (VARs) around the world support SolidWorks educators. When I was in the classroom everyday, I received boxes of “free” software. But the training I got from my SolidWorks VAR
... ContinuedWhat’s New in SOLIDWORKS EDU? SOLIDWORKS Simulation with Fantastic Interactive Results for FEA
Professors ask me why I like SolidWorks Simulation so much. Answer: SolidWorks Simulation is fully integrated and bidirectional, with an easy user interface, just like SolidWorks. Students learn to perform analysis quicker because there are fewer mouse-clicks and tips to
... ContinuedWhat’s New in SOLIDWORKS Education – STEM Curriculum & Robot Models
The new SOLIDWORKS Education Edition 2014-2105 Instructor’s Guide and Student Guides brings a series of Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) competencies front and center to help teachers in their day to day lesson plans. SOLIDWORKS is a great tool to make
... ContinuedNOVA’s D-Day’s Sunken Secrets Preview Features Passion for Innovation 3DEXPERIENCE
Hundreds of 3D glasses were given to D-Day veterans and special guests at the WGBH studios in Boston on Thursday. Imagine exploring the coast of Normandy on D-Day and the days that followed. With the help of DASSAULT
... ContinuedBlood, Sweat, Tears and SolidWorks Gets University of Houston SAE Team to Formula Hybrid
It has been a long, hard journey for the University of Houston SAE Formula Hybrid team. With blood, sweat, tears and SoldiWorks, engineering students, Bradlee Henderson, Dixon Valbuena, Jaime Gonzalez reached their goal to participate in Formula Hybrid 2014 and
... ContinuedSolidWorks to Gazebo Robot Simulation
The world of simulating robots in play just got easier with the help of students TJ Watson and Michael Strickland from WPI. These students have worked to bring SolidWorks models into Gazebo in URDF file format. Using WPILIB Java, software
... ContinuedWhat’s New in SolidWorks Education Edition 2014-2015: Path Dimension
SOLIDWORKS Education Edition 2014-2015 has some great new features. I will be sharing some of my favorites over the next few weeks. The Path Dimension is a great sketch feature for robot and FSAE teams that need to design with chains
... ContinuedWhat’s New in SolidWorks Education Edition 2014-2015: Curve Driven Patterns
SOLIDWORKS Education Edition 2014-2015 has some great new features. I will be sharing some of my favorites over the next few weeks. The Curve Driven Pattern feature is great to use in an assembly at the part level. Assemblies now offer
... ContinuedBuilding Competitive Teams with the SolidWorks Education Edition
Thank you Kristen Wilson for sharing with the SolidWorks Community, republished from the SolidWorks blog. Marie One of the things I love about working for SOLIDWORKS is our Education Program (I’m a teacher’s kid, so education is something near and
... ContinuedSmart Robot Prosthetic Hand from WPI wins 2014 Cornell Cup by Intel
When students, Thanacha Choopojcharoen, Adam Jardim, Deniz Ozgoren, Sean Casley, under the direction of professors Cagdas D Onal and Taskin Padir; worked on their Master Qualifying Project at WPI last Fall, they never imaged a first place win at the highly prized Cornell Cup presented
... ContinuedIntroducing the SOLIDWORKS Education Edition 2014-2015 – Design without Limits
Today we introduce the SOLIDWORKS Education Edition 2014-2015 to instructors and students around the world. The new SOLIDWORKS Education Edition is based on SOLIDWORKS Premium 2014, the same software that engineers from every industry design their new products with. The SOLIDWORKS Education
... ContinuedSolidWorks Helps to Send Your Name to the Asteroid Bennu
The 321 Science program creates simple videos about space for your students, videos such as Asteroid Fact vs Fiction. You can find the complete playlist here. Osiris-Rex is a partnership between the University of Arizona, NASA/ Goddard Space Flight
... ContinuedBoys and Girls Club celebrates STEAM with SolidWorks Engineers
On Saturday, DS SolidWorks engineers Vajrang, John, Even, Jie, Lin, Roberto and Bonny celebrated Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) with 250 children at the Boys and Girls Club of Leominster/Fitchburg Massachusetts. The event attracted children, ages preschool to
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