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Students Design with SOLIDWORKS at European BEST Engineering Competition EBEC2015
EBEC 2015 – European BEST Engineering Competition brings together talented engineering and engineering technology students to compete in local and regional design competitions. The aim of EBEC is to raise social awareness of all students in relation to current global technical
... ContinuedHigh Rollers FIRST Robotics Team Wins on All Levels
Eric Stensrud, physics teacher,FIRST Robotics Team 987, Cimarron-Memorial High School’s Career and Technical Academy, Robotics advisor, sent me photos this week of his team, the High Rollers. FRC Team 987 has been using SOLIDWORKS to design their award winning robots since 2005.
... ContinuedLove Robots? SOLIDWORKS might be for you!
Designing competitive robots can be challenging and resource consuming! Sure, you love doing it, but wouldn’t you rather spend less time and money while doing the same thing on a computer? This way you can optimize it before you
... ContinuedWestern University Ontario Pumpkin Winner
Nathaniel Holmes is this year’s winning entry in the Pumpkin Carving contest in the second year design course. Professor Paul M. Kurowski, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, wanted to have a little fun with his engineering students. Well done Paul and
... ContinuedFABLABs and 3D Printers
At FAB10Barcelona, Sherry Lassitor and I announced SolidWorks support for the FAB Foundation to cheers from the FABLAB audience. The FABFoundation.org supports over 300 FABLABs and FAB Academies around the world. I see great work from FABLABs using SolidWorks from
... 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
... ContinuedUnder the Tents, Next to the Trucks, Flying High with SAE Aero Design
I read a case study about our SolidWorks commercial customer, SelectTech GeoSpacial Advanced this week. The story reveals how with SolidWorks Premium design and analysis software, SelectTech GeoSpatial more rapidly delivers C2ISR systems by accelerating design, production, and assembly operations.
... ContinuedLinking CFD and FEM with SolidWorks Flow Simulation and SolidWorks Simulation
As technology tools like SolidWorks Flow Simulation and SolidWorks Simulation become more popular in daily industry use, educators develop new ways to expand their curriculum will real world examples that interface the Finite Volume Method used in Computational Fluid Dynamics
... ContinuedSolidWorks Education + SolidWorks Certification = The Best Careeers
100,000 SolidWorks certified users. 100000 is the big announcement at SolidWorks World Day 3 General Session from the SolidWorks Certification team. This milestone could not have been reached without dedicated educators in our Certified SolidWorks Associate (CSWA) Academic Provider
... ContinuedSolidWorks Japan Develops Students’ Engineering Potential
Competitions. They drive students to learn practical skills and to understand engineering and design theory, SolidWorks Japan continues to develop students’ engineering potential through training and competitions. At the university level, FSAE Japan students attend workshops in SolidWorks and SolidWorks
... ContinuedFor the Love of Engineering: FIRST in Michigan Transforms Education
Transform. This is the word to describe engineering and science education in Michigan. The leaders, mentors, teachers, students and industry professionals behind FIRST in Michigan lead in providing the largest reach across any US state for FIRST Robotics. After
... ContinuedUp, Up and Away Princeton’s WC Jones Explores the Universe
When Steve Benton, a graduate student at the University of Toronto took a photo of. Alexandra Rahlin, graduate student at Princeton University, they never knew the photo would be shared with the SolidWorks community. Alexandra is a graduate student of
... ContinuedFIRST FRC SolidWorks Kit of Parts (KOP)
US FIRST FRC Kickoff revealed a new challenge to robot teams around the world. And to help with that challenge, SolidWorks created a KitBot and SolidWorks KOP to start off the games. FRC Teams can download the SolidWorks Kit of
... ContinuedSolidWorks Sponsors US FIRST Robotics Teams
Robots are everywhere. Our commercial customers design and manufacture great robots and automation systems. Now all US FIRST teams can use the same software tools as our commercial customers. Use our easy application apply for sponsorship process for SolidWorks Sponsorship
... ContinuedUAE Victory Team Wins World Powerboat Championship
Optimize speed. Increase efficiency. Just two of the many design parameters that contributed to Dubai’s Victory Team win in the UIM Class 1 World Powerboat Championship in Abu Dhabi last week. Victory Team had to successfully compete in four 2013
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