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Saving Layouts and Views – Femap Tips & Tricks

Saving Layouts and Views – Femap Tips & Tricks

Femap allows a lot of control of the appearance of the user interface, and lets you specify the desired layout of windows, panes as well as the view attributes. Once you have everything set the way y…

You’re Hired – Engineering Apprenticeships Develop Future Engineers

You’re Hired – Engineering Apprenticeships Develop Future Engineers

Meet Tom Lockwood, a student engineer turned real-life engineer through AESSEAL’s pioneering apprentice program. Young engineers like Tom in industry-academic programs like AESSEAL’s help close the c…

MakerFaire and The Future of (Personal) Manufacturing

MakerFaire and The Future of (Personal) Manufacturing

I’m sitting here at MakerFaire amazed at how people are doing more with less.  This is a get together of your closest 100,000 friends.  Crazy Uncle Al that never leaves his shop… this is th…

Femap “How To” Video Series: Creating Constraint Equations

Femap “How To” Video Series: Creating Constraint Equations

This is the first in a new series of “How To” videos that demonstrate some of the more advanced FEA modeling functionality accessible through Femap. In this video we’ll see how to use Femap to set…

Composites in Automotive Industry; Ed Bernardon explains

Composites in Automotive Industry; Ed Bernardon explains

Composite Material, or composites for short, first use dates back to the 1500s B.C. when early Egyptians and Mesopotamian settlers used a mixture of mud and straw to create strong and durable buildin…

Project-Based Design and Build Courses at Illinois State University

Project-Based Design and Build Courses at Illinois State University

Those are Kevin Devine’s hands showing a tool changer rack his students designed. Kevin, an associate professor at Illinois State University, presented last week at PLM Connection on using NX in…

Design1 Sighted at Tacoma World at Local Motors

Design1 Sighted at Tacoma World at Local Motors

Last weekend, I headed out to Phoenix and Local Motors  for a special event with the Tacoma World truck club.  This was a fun group of people with some nice looking trucks full of specializ…

Siemens at EVS26 – Recap

Siemens at EVS26 – Recap

In my last post, I gave an overview of Siemens’ participation inEVS26. EVS26 was a conference and exhibit event for electric vehicles and the electric drive industry. The topics c…

Meet Instructor and Industrial Technologist Joe Vanstrom

Meet Instructor and Industrial Technologist Joe Vanstrom

Joe Vanstrom says his job as program chair and industrial technology instructor is “a dream come true.” The 6’6″ former Iowa State offensive lineman stood a bit taller than most of the attendees at l…