CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
13 September 2004
Implementation Investments
Twenty Four Government Polytechnic Institutes in India Will Use SolidWorks Software to Prepare Future Engineers
Twenty-four government polytechnic institutes in India will use SolidWorks® 3D mechanical design software to prepare aspiring engineers for high-paying, skilled jobs in the competitive Indian economy, SolidWorks Corporation announced.
The Directorate of Technical Education in the west central Indian state of Maharashtra has purchased 250 licenses of SolidWorks Education Edition under a SolidWorks Corporation initiative to extend affordable, high-quality technical education to middle-income students who cannot afford universities. The polytechnic institutes will use SolidWorks to train students as well as adult learners in 3D mechanical design. Until now, India's polytechnic institutes haven't been equipped with 3D mechanical design software. Students were forced to enter the job market without 3D skills or pay exorbitant fees to private trainers.
"Exposure to SolidWorks will benefit our students enormously due to the huge demand for skilled workers in India, including widespread demand for conversion of legacy 2D drawings to 3D solid models," said Ms. A. C. Attar, training and placement officer for the Directorate of Technical Education. "Gone are the days when knowing 2D drafting was sufficient to get a good job. Fortunately, SolidWorks software's intuitive environment shortens the 3D learning curve so that students can focus more on mechanical design theory than the intricacies of the software."
The directorate selected SolidWorks Education Edition software over other 3D computer-aided design (CAD) software for use in the polytechnic institutes' mechanical, production, automobile, and industrial engineering curricula. SolidWorks Education Edition software includes SolidWorks mechanical design software, PhotoWorksT, SolidWorks Toolbox, SolidWorks Animator, eDrawingsT Professional, FeatureWorksT, SolidWorks Utilities, 3D Instant Website, and these analysis tools: COSMOSWorksT, COSMOSMotionT, and COSMOSFloWorksT.
SolidWorks is a leader in 3D mechanical design software for education. More than 4,600 educational institutions worldwide have standardized 3D CAD instruction using SolidWorks software. More than 100,000 students graduate each year with SolidWorks experience, and more than 75 percent of the world's top-ranked universities teach with SolidWorks. The Directorate of Technical Education works with SolidWorks reseller IndiaSoft for ongoing software training, implementation, and support.
The Directorate of Technical Education, Maharashtra's role is to maintain and enhance the standard and quality of technical education by laying the policies, establishing and developing government institutions, guiding and supervising aided and private institutions, interacting with industry and national level institutions, and coordinating with other departments of state government, the government of India, and statutory organizations and to contribute to the development of industry and society at large. The directorate has its six regional offices at Mumbai, Pune, Nashik, Aurangabad, Amravati, and Nagpur, which are headed by a joint director based in the regional office.
For more information visit http://www.dte.org.in
IndiaSoft Technologies (P) Ltd., (formerly PRIME Scientific (P) Ltd.) has been providing scientific and statistical solutions to engineering and R&D organizations in India over the past decade. IndiaSoft addresses problems in domains ranging from pure mathematics and science to applied engineering disciplines and other areas such as mathematical modeling and simulation, parallel processing, optimization, applied statistics, and others. It is also the leading distributor of various scientific and engineering software products, such as SolidWorks, Matlab, Witness, SPSS, OrCAD, and other tools in Western India. For more information visit http://www.indiasoft.co.in
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