PLM Connection Americas Academic Discount

Above, Bill Boswell, senior director of Partner Strategy at Siemens PLM Software, presents with Principia College solar car team representatives at last year’s PLM Connection.

If you’re looking for some professional development this summer, join the thousands of Siemens PLM Software customers who will be in Orlando June 16-19 for PLM Connection. There is an academic discount for full-time students and educators.

Check out the complete agenda. There are some interesting inspirational keynote speakers this year. There are free hands-on training sessions so you can see what’s new in the latest applications but also check out the Knowledge Theater that is new this year.

There are number of presentations by academic peers. Check these out: 

• Greg Jensen of Brigham Young University (BYU) presents on a semester long NX project that re-engineered a Baja RC vehicle with a focus on CAE applications.


• David French of BYU and Barry McPherson of The Boeing company present on using Connect and Microsoft Surface tablets to integrate social, collaborative, networking and CAx tools.


• Brett Stone of BYU shares results of some research developed at the National Science foundation Center for e-Design that allows managers to better track progress of design teams and projects.


• Alexander Christ of Technische Universitaet Darmstadt presents on some interesting use cases on JT master models as an integration platform, for example FEA on mobile devices.

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