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Robot Student Teams Go Back to School with SOLIDWORKS
In many parts of the world it is the start of a new school year or new term. More than ever, student robot competitions are growing at all levels. So if you are part of a middle school, high school,
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Sponsorship for Student Teams – Introducing Cloud Storage for Free
It’s the start of a new competitive season for SOLIDWORKS EDU to support Student Teams from all over the world. Student Teams in regional, national and international competitions can apply for SOLIDWORKS sponsorship – all for free. And now we
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Sponsorship for Student Teams
For over 20 years, SOLIDWORKS has sponsored student teams that partipate in regional, national and international competitions. We have walked the fields, paddocks and pits, in all kinds of weather, to talk to students. The SOLIDWORKS Edu team and our
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS, Cloud Storage and PLM for Sponsored Student Teams
For over 20 years, SOLIDWORKS has sponsored student teams that partipate in regional, national and international competitions. We have walked the fields, paddocks and pits, in all kinds of weather, to talk to students. The SOLIDWORKS Edu team and our
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Students Capture Top NASA Award
See how the annual NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge has encouraged student teams from around the world to push the limits of innovation in space exploration.
... ContinuedSTEM Program – Students in Montana work with NASA
I recently took a trip to visit some of the schools I work in Montana to discuss their STEM Program. One of the schools I visited called Billings Career Center, a Career, and Technical education-focused school, had an exciting project they
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Students are Everywhere
Watching the WPI FSAE team during Tilt Test at FORMULA Michigan makes you hold your breath and celebrate the accomplishments of so many young engineers. The SOLIDWORKS team visits with 1000’s of students this time of year at SAE Collegiate
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Entrepreneur: 3dl.tech 3D Printing Unique Prototypes for Your Company
Bringing together design, prototyping and short-run production with 3D CAD knowledge and 3D printing methods, 3dl.tech supports their clients’ needs. With their team of experienced engineers, 3dl.tech delivers interdisciplinary projects. 3dl.tech focuses on professional 3D printing, 3D design, prototype series
... ContinuedCharlie Hahs, US Veteran – Back to School at 86
A mechanical engineer from the University of Missouri of Science and Technology in Rolla Mo, Charlie started learning 3D software designing at the age of 86 years. His university education was interrupted when he spent two years in the
... ContinuedWest Virginia University wins NASA Robot Competition
NASA Sample Return Robot Challenge encourages innovation in autonomous robotics as teams locate and collect samples across a wide variety of terrain and obstacles without human intervention. The Cataglyphis Mountaineers robotics team from West Virginia University (WVU) college of engineering, under
... ContinuedMIT Students Prepare for Flight of OSIRIS-REx NASA Mission
OSIRIS-REx (Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer) is a NASA New Frontier’s mission scheduled for launch in 2016 that will travel to the asteroid Bennu and return a pristine sample of the asteroid to Earth. The REgolith X-ray
... 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
... ContinuedUMASS Lowell Rover Hawks Win NASA Competition
The TASK: Build a functional robot in 3 months and communicate with it 2000 miles away. The UMASS Lowell Rover Hawks combined mechanical, electrical, computer programming and 3 cameras to win the simulated MARS Rover competition sponsored by NASA Engineering
... ContinuedRobotics Engineering Advances at WPI
Robots are everywhere at WPI. Last week I visited WPI and met the VP of Manufacturing from Rethink Robotics, who introduced me to Baxter. Baxter is an adaptive manufacturing robot. It contains cameras, sensors and sophisticated software that enable it
... ContinuedLaurentian University Students win NASA’s Lunabotics Competition with SolidWorks
Congratulations to Laurentian University students in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, have won NASA's Lunabotics competition. This eight member student team of 4th year mechanical engineering students won NASA's prestigious competition, where students design remote controlled excavators to dig, collect and deposit as much "lunar" material as
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