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Nick Peterson of Greenpower Team USA on his first electric car race

June 9, 2013

A year ago Nick Peterson attended Solid Edge University and shared he was interested in the Greenpower real-world project because itprovides experience in aerodynamics, electrical and mechanic…

By Dora Smith

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Principia Solar Car Update and Interview with Student Engineer Kali McKee

May 15, 2013

You may remember Kali from our post The Secret to Designing Solar Cars. Now I’d like to share a little bit more from and about her. This semester I got the chance to visit the Principia Solar Team in…

By Dora Smith

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Meet Future Engineer Sean Webb

May 8, 2013

Meet Sean Webb, a first year student at Calhoun Community College. His story is one that highlights how important real-world projects are in STEM education. For Sean the project that did it was Green…

By Dora Smith

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Meet Student Engineer Dylan Van Dyne

April 30, 2013

Meet Dylan Van Dyne, a senior in mechanical engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He’s finishing up this senior semester with work on an interesting personal mobility device. When did you k…

By Dora Smith

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Cal State LA and Siemens PLM Software Collaborate on EcoCAR2

March 8, 2013

Over on the GreenGarageBlog, the Cal State Los Angeles team shared a blog post and video they produced on their use of NX and Teamcenter on their EcoCAR 2 vehicle. “Siemens PLM Software:…

By Dora Smith

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Meet Software Engineer Rachel Ruggieri

February 22, 2013

Happy Engineers Week to all of you current and budding mechanical and software engineers! The theme of this year’s week is “Celebrate Awesome.” So let’s honor some of the awesome engineering brains b…

By Dora Smith

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Podcast with CEO Chuck Grindstaff

February 15, 2013

Here is the latest podcast in my Chat with Chuck series. Chuck Grindstaff is president and CEO of Siemens PLM Software. This time we cover: new employee growth new inventions like mass…

By Dora Smith

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Student Engineers Plug In To EcoCAR2 Winter Workshop

January 24, 2013

Last week we gave shout out for Kid Inventor Day. Today let’s give a shout out to all those student inventors back at school and back at work on real-world design challenges. I especially want to rec…

By Dora Smith

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Inspiring the Kid Inventor in You

January 17, 2013

Happy Kid Inventor Day! Last night I asked my son what he would like to invent. He told me software that works on all computers ;-). He gets frustrated when the operating systems of my iPad or his ne…

By Dora Smith

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