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Robot Teams Wired for SOLIDWORKS Electrical
As competitive robot teams continue to push innovation in electro-mechanical design, the SolidWorks Education Community responds with our SolidWorks Sponsorship for robot teams such as FIRST Robotics (FRC FTC FLL), AUVSI, ASEE, ASME, and IEEE featuring the SOLIDWORKS Robotics Suite. The
... ContinuedAutonomous Underwater Vehicles Compete at AUVSI Foundation’s RoboSub
Robots got wet. Engineering teams were challenged. At RoboSub 2014 students design and build autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) capable of performing realist missions in the underwater environment. 1st place winner Cornell AUV team provided us with a SolidWorks model of their
... ContinuedSolidWorks – An Unexpected Tool Inside the Laboratory
Kayane Dingilian, Chemical Engineering student and researcher, California Institute of Technology, sent us this story on how SolidWorks Flow Simulation is helping to “speed up my research and get to the results more quickly than ever.” Kayane, thank you for
... ContinuedUTA’s FSAE Texas Autocross Weekend 2014 Supported by SolidWorks VAR GoEngineer
University of Texas – Arlington (UT-Arlington) hosted the 14th annual “Texas Autocross Weekend” July 11 – 13, 2014, under the direction of Dr. Bob Woods. The original intent was for Texas and Oklahoma schools to get together, but the event has
... ContinuedNC State Flies High at AUVSI 2014 Aerial Robotics Competition
NC State Robotics Club soared to a first place finish at this year’s 2014 Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, AUVSI SUAS, Aerial Robotics Competition. The Student Unmanned Air Systems (SUAS) competition provides challenging missions to student teams to design, integrate
... ContinuedBig Bridge Project Makes a Difference in STEM Education
The Big Bridge. If you are creating a freshman engineering experience or a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) lesson with brainstorming, designing, testing, redesigning, hands-on building and ofcourse making certain students and instructors have fun, then the Big Bridge could be
... ContinuedEducators Lead with Multi-body Dynamics and SolidWorks Simulation
University of Roma Tor Vergata is well known for their Formula Student Team. The championship cup from Formula Student Italy is proudly displayed in a glass case. Supporting these students are innovative engineering professors that have created instruction for Multi-Body Dynamics combined
... ContinuedFrench Olympiad Celebrates Innovation with Science and Engineering Students
The 2014 Olympiad of Engineering Science (Olympiades des Sciences de l’Ingénieur) finals were held at Microsoft’s Paris Headquarters on May 21. 60 teams were selected to present their engineering project to a panel of technical judges. The event started 6
... ContinuedWalk Again Project brings Engineering Innovation to the 2014 World Cup
Tomorrow a paralyzed teen will kick the first soccer ball at the 2014 World Cup held in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Thanks to researcher David Prawel, director of Colorado State University’s public access Idea-2-Product Laboratory and amazing exoskeleton technology. My colleague Jason Cloyd,
... ContinuedÉcole de Technologie Supérieure Baja Team Achieves Success with SolidWorks VAR PBI CADCAM
The drive from École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) in Montreal to Baja SAE East in Pittburg, Kansas is 1418 miles,(2282km) and 21 hrs. The drive takes longer when you are pulling a trailer with your Baja vehicle. Our SolidWorks Value Added
... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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
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