{"id":4948,"date":"2013-10-06T13:19:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T17:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=4948"},"modified":"2013-10-06T13:29:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T17:29:44","slug":"when-colleges-host-solidworks-user-groups-great-things-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2013\/10\/when-colleges-host-solidworks-user-groups-great-things-happen.html","title":{"rendered":"When Colleges host SolidWorks User Groups Great Things Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Western<\/a><\/p>\n

The synergy in between our commercial users, educators, and students continues to strengthen our SolidWorks community.\u00a0 I find myself visiting colleges, not just to meet educators and students, but to visit our commercial users at local SolidWorks Users Group meetings.<\/p>\n

\"Smith<\/a><\/p>\n

So Wednesday night, I visited\u00a0Smith College<\/a> in the beautiful, colorful, Berkshire Mountains, hosting the SolidWorks Western Massachusetts Users Group<\/a>. \u00a0 I met friends known for years, \u00a0user group leader John Matrishon <\/strong>and STCC director,\u00a0Gary Masciadrelli , <\/strong>and new friends.<\/p>\n

Smith College, is the first college in the US to start an all-women\u2019s engineering program.\u00a0 And what a program these young women receive.<\/p>\n

Eric Jensen<\/b>, manager of the Smith\u2019s Center for Design and Innovation gave us a tour. \u00a0I was \u00a0a kid in a candy store.\u00a0 Freshmen get to work on their first project, a special hammer, that they design, machine components, and rapid prototype other parts.<\/p>\n

\"Smith<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Smith<\/a><\/p>\n

Instructors and students from Springfield Technical Community College and Western New England University also attended along with our commercial customers in industrial, biomedical and consumer product industries.\u00a0 There are many machine shops in Western Mass.\u00a0 Happy to see manufacturing working in Massachusetts!<\/p>\n

\"Siena<\/a><\/p>\n

I also attended the Tech Valley User Group<\/a> in at Siena College<\/a>, outside of Albany, NY.\u00a0 What a physics department!<\/p>\n

\"Firefly<\/a><\/p>\n

Siena College and the Goddard Space Flight Center were jointly awarded a $1 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to lead a new satellite mission that explores the link between lightning and sudden bursts of high-energy radiation in Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere. \u00a0Students are using SolidWorks to design their cube satellite called Firefly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many SolidWorks Users Group partner with SolidWorks schools for their meetings. \u00a0You can find a complete list of SolidWorks Users Groups at www.swugn.org<\/a>. \u00a0Marie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The synergy in between our commercial users, educators, and students continues to strengthen our SolidWorks community.\u00a0 I find myself visiting colleges, not just to meet educators and students, but to visit our commercial users at local SolidWorks Users Group meetings.<\/p>\n... Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":4955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4183,5203,1],"tags":[4016,3931,5312,5289],"class_list":["post-4948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cad-teacher","category-current-affairs","category-uncategorized","tag-3d-cad","tag-solidworks","tag-swugn","tag-user-group"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4958,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions\/4958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}