{"id":6054,"date":"2014-06-03T09:23:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T13:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=6054"},"modified":"2014-06-03T12:18:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T16:18:50","slug":"monash-university-students-accelerate-at-intercads-design-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2014\/06\/monash-university-students-accelerate-at-intercads-design-contest.html","title":{"rendered":"Monash University Students Accelerate at InterCAD\u2019s Design Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Monash-Formula-SAE-M11-Final-Render.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6056\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Monash-Formula-SAE-M11-Final-Render-615x492.png\" alt=\"Monash Formula SAE M11 Final Render\" width=\"615\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Monash-Formula-SAE-M11-Final-Render-615x492.png 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Monash-Formula-SAE-M11-Final-Render-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Monash-Formula-SAE-M11-Final-Render-120x96.png 120w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Monash-Formula-SAE-M11-Final-Render.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Formula SAE team from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monash.edu.au\/\">Monash University<\/a>, Victoria, Australia is known around the world as a major competitor at collegiate SAE events.<\/p>\n<p>So when SolidWorks Value Added Reseller, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/intercad.com.au\/\">InterCAD<\/a> decided to host a Student Design Contest, the competition was intense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Monash-InterCAD-Design-Contest-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6061\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Monash-InterCAD-Design-Contest-3.png\" alt=\"Monash InterCAD Design Contest 3\" width=\"506\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Monash-InterCAD-Design-Contest-3.png 506w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Monash-InterCAD-Design-Contest-3-300x289.png 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Monash-InterCAD-Design-Contest-3-120x115.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>InterCAD \u00a0provided judges and speakers for the event. \u00a0<strong>Luke Kenny<\/strong>, InterCAD\u2019s business development manager, spoke to students about how the SolidWorks skills they are learning are valued by industry.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #005580;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Monash-InterCAD-Design-Contest-20.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6062\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Monash-InterCAD-Design-Contest-20.png\" alt=\"Monash InterCAD Design Contest 20\" width=\"510\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Monash-InterCAD-Design-Contest-20.png 510w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Monash-InterCAD-Design-Contest-20-300x288.png 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Monash-InterCAD-Design-Contest-20-120x115.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I asked <strong>Dr Scott Wordley<\/strong>, Researcher, \u00a0Mechanical Engineering Faculty member, Formula SAE director, at Monash University, why they use SolidWorks, he said,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe use SolidWorks at Monash because it is powerful and yet easy to learn for novice users. The inbuilt tutorials are a great resource for students and we use them extensively in our teaching. Our students were very excited to be able to take the CSWA (Certified SolidWorks Associate) exam as part of their Mechanical Design 1 subject, and received marks for it as well as an industry recognized qualification.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #005580;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Monash-InterCAD-Design-Contest-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6059\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Monash-InterCAD-Design-Contest-1.png\" alt=\"Monash InterCAD Design Contest 1\" width=\"542\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Monash-InterCAD-Design-Contest-1.png 542w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Monash-InterCAD-Design-Contest-1-286x300.png 286w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Monash-InterCAD-Design-Contest-1-114x120.png 114w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The winning students were delighted to get the opportunity to take their SolidWorks skills to the next level with the awarded prize of the Certified SolidWorks Professional (CSWP) exam.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #005580;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SolidWorks-VAR-InterCAD-Award-at-Monash-University.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6058\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SolidWorks-VAR-InterCAD-Award-at-Monash-University.jpg\" alt=\"SolidWorks VAR InterCAD Award at Monash University\" width=\"535\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SolidWorks-VAR-InterCAD-Award-at-Monash-University.jpg 535w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SolidWorks-VAR-InterCAD-Award-at-Monash-University-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SolidWorks-VAR-InterCAD-Award-at-Monash-University-120x99.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the <strong>InterCAD-SolidWorks Award for the Best Warman Device CAD Model<\/strong> award goes to \u00a0\u201cTeam Sodium\u201d<\/p>\n<table width=\"215\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"215\">DAVID BUTLER<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HUGH MONTGOMERY<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FRANCISZEK NOWAK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>TRUNG DINH PHAN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DION SANTOSO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ANGELO TATLONGHARI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>JAKE VAN DEN BROEK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>QI XIN YANG andHUGH MONTGOMERY (not in photo)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Thank you <strong>Scott Wordley<\/strong>, <a title=\"Monash Motorsport \" href=\"https:\/\/www.monashmotorsport.com\/\">Monash Motorsport<\/a>, and <strong>Luke Kenny<\/strong>, <strong>Radmila Mrkobrad<\/strong> and the InterCAD team for sharing with the SolidWorks Community. \u00a0Marie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Formula SAE team from Monash University, Victoria, Australia is known around the world as a major competitor at collegiate SAE events. So when SolidWorks Value Added Reseller, \u00a0InterCAD decided to host a Student Design Contest, the competition was intense.<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2014\/06\/monash-university-students-accelerate-at-intercads-design-contest.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":6056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5381,4015,4084,5380],"tags":[4016,4351,5455,5456,3931],"class_list":["post-6054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cad-2","category-mechanical-engineering","category-sae","category-stem-science-technology-engineering-and-math","tag-3d-cad","tag-design-contest","tag-intercad","tag-monash","tag-solidworks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054","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=6054"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6064,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054\/revisions\/6064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}