CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
13 June 2012
Company News
Bentley Announces 2012 Student Design Competition Winners, Names Educator of the Year
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, announced the winners in Bentley Institute’s 2012 Bentley Student Design Competition, sponsored by Be Careers Network, and named Dr. Guenter Maresch, professor, University of Salzburg and University of Education Salzburg, as Bentley Educator of the Year. The Student Design Competition awards technically advanced projects that were created, using Bentley software, by university, college, technical, and high school students around the world, and acknowledges the achievements of the students’ educators and mentors. The program fosters interest and growth in the architectural, engineering, construction (AEC), geospatial, and operations professions by encouraging students to explore the software and hone the skills they’ll need as future members of the infrastructure community. The Educator of the Year award recognizes a member of the academic community who has an outstanding record of achievement and is committed to inspiring students to pursue careers in the infrastructure professions.
In the 2012 Bentley Student Design Competition, individual students and student teams from 11 countries submitted 79 projects in various categories depending upon their level of education. University and community college students submitted projects in four categories: “Innovation in Architectural Design,” “Innovation in Road and Bridge Design,” “Innovation in GIS Implementation,” and “Innovation in Rendering and Animation.” High school and technical school students submitted projects in the “Design a Transportation Center” category.
The winning projects in this year’s competition are:
- Integrating Elemental Learning Elementary School, Morgan Danner and Desiree Edge, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., in the “Innovation in Architectural Design” category;
- Design of “Nowy Kleparz” Interchange, Tomasz Majkusiak and Micha Marek, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krackow, Poland, in the “Innovation in Road and Bridge Design” category;
- 3D Geospatial Database for Underground Pipelines, Suhaibah Azri and Uznir Ujang, Universiti of Teknologi, Malaysia, in the “Innovation in GIS Implementation” category;
- Leonardo da Vinci Project, Iris Chipchev and Lital Toren, Shenkar College, Ramat Gan, Israel, in the “Innovation in Rendering and Animation” category;
- Libman Airport, Jonathan Libman, Randolph High School, Randolph, N.J., in the “Design a Transportation Center” category.
The winning students and projects in the 2012 Student Design Competition will be recognized at their respective schools. Additionally, winners or winning teams will each receive a scholarship and handcrafted award to display at their schools, and be able to choose 10 seats of Bentley software – from the more than 50 products available through the Be Careers Network academic subscription – for use by their schools.
For additional information about the 2012 Bentley Student Design Competition winners and the Bentley Educator of the Year, visit www.bentley.com/winners.
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