Mechanical Engineering
SOLIDWORKS xDesign Challenge for India – The Future of Urban Mobility India
The wait is over, It’s time to announce the theme of the SOLIDWORKS xDesign India Challenge … The Future of Urban Mobility India Now that teams are more familiar with SOLIDWORKS xDesign, it’s time to start your design contest submissions! Our
... ContinuedA Cosmic Collaboration on Mauna Kea
The only way for astronomers to collect data is by gathering the light of the cosmos. To do that on Earth, they need massive ground-based telescopes. The summit of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano that makes up almost a quarter
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Interns Bowled Over in 2018 Internship Design Challenge
Interns at the SOLIDWORKS office in Woodland Hills, CA, were tasked with a carnival themed design challenge that really got the ball rolling. The classic carnival game, Roller Bowler, was the inspiration for the challenge: create a device that
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Interns Get Certified
There are over 300,000 certified SOLIDWORKS users worldwide, and this summer two SOLIDWORKS interns in the Waltham office were added to their number. Maxime Boyer and Marta Puig García-Capelo are international students who spent their summer in the 3DEXPERIENCE
... ContinuedFIRST Championships and SOLIDWORKS Sponsorships
April 2018, 405 teams descended on Detroit, MI, and 405 on Houston, TX. Inside two of the largest convention centers in the country, high school students from around the world competed in one of the most exciting STEM (science, technology,
... ContinuedKeep On (Monster) Truckin’: SOLIDWORKS Meets Jonah
For the past few weeks, members of the R&D department at SOLIDWORKS have been pouring over monster truck designs. They’re now cozy with the designs and dimensions of some of the regulars at Monster Jam, a massive event where monster
... ContinuedFIRST Comes First: Team YETI, Queen City Robotics Alliance, and TPM, Inc.
True story: here at SOLIDWORKS, we’re crazy about FIRST Robotics. What kind of engineering nerds wouldn’t be? Created by Dean Kamen, FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics aims to inspire students to become leaders in science and engineering, to
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS User Highlight: Jason Ledon
If you were one of the 5,000 attendees at SOLIDWORKS World 2018, or one of the countless number who watched the conference online, you may have seen a short presentation about Jason Ledon of Hialeah, FL. If you live
... ContinuedThe Cubie Awards: A SOLIDWORKS Story
If you ever have the chance to visit the DASSAULT SYSTEMES campus in Waltham, MA, you’ll initially be greeted with what looks like an ordinary office. Inside the Water Building, pods of cubicles dot the wide, open floor plan.
... ContinuedWhat’s new with SOLIDWORKS World Student Day
Only one week till SOLIDWORKS World 2018 – the excitement is building! If you’re a SOLIDWORKS user this is the place to be, elbow to elbow with thousands of designers, engineers, educators, students, researchers and visionaries! Three days of learning,
... Continued8th Graders from Dana Hall Spend Career Day with SOLIDWORKS
When most of us were kids, Career Day meant impatiently jiggling our legs under our desks, while Tommy Y.’s dad droned on about selling insurance, only to be followed by Laura V.’s mom trying to get us amped up
... ContinuedThe most wonderful time of year…Back to School!!
The most wonderful time of year…Back to School!!! Are you one of the million students and educators setting that early alarm wishing summer vacation was just a few weeks longer? Unfortunately SOLIDWORKS can’t help with that but we can help
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Entrepreneur: Joulez Empowering Tween Girls in the Fields of STEM
Born from over a year of dedicated research and personal experiences, Joulez empowers tween girls to enter the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Joulez incorporates four key elements into its approach: identity, vocabulary, skills and tribe. They
... ContinuedTUFTS Racing Team at the Formula Hybrid International Competition
Today we are featuring the Tufts Racing Team, a team of highly motivated engineering students from Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts) who are perennial competitors in the Formula-Hybrid electric car competition.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS in Student Design Competitions
Today student competitions can range from underwater to first reaches of space and everywhere in between. Students in these events get a chance to work with a fantastic range of technologies. A team can be made up students involved with
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