The Program Committee members of one of the world’s largest conference on multiphysics simulation are delighted to invite engineers and researchers to submit abstracts to this year’s event. Selected papers, posters, and presentations will be featured at the 10th annual COMSOL Conference, an experience that has been bringing the engineering community together for a decade. The COMSOL Conference attracts more than 2,000 attendees around the globe and provides them with the chance to share their work and showcase the latest innovations in their fields. The conference focuses on advancing cross-discipline and multiphysics simulation by providing conference attendees with a multitude of hands-on minicourses, user presentations, and keynote talks from industry leaders. The conference also provides attendees with the chance to interact with the makers of COMSOL Multiphysics®. Conference Highlights Include Application-specific minicourse sessions taught by COMSOL specialists covering a wide array of disciplines Keynote talks from industry leaders and prominent researchers An exhibition showcasing products offered

SigmaTEK Systems LLC announces the opening of its newest global office. Located in Dortmund, Germany, SigmaNEST Systems GmbH will provide software sales, support, training and consulting services to fabricators throughout the region. SigmaTEK President & CEO, Ben TerreBlanche comments: “The German metal market ranks among the world’s leaders and the establishment of this new office provides an increased level of responsiveness that comes only with a local presence staffed by industry veterans. Additionally, SigmaNEST Systems GmbH will bring to bear the global resources, technical expertise, and leading software of SigmaTEK Systems. We are truly excited to have a stronger presence in Germany and look forward to providing the industry´s most powerful and advanced manufacturing process automation technology to our many customers in Germany.” SigmaNEST Systems GmbH CEO, Christoph Weber comments: “Integration of machine and software is the key to success in the cutting industry. SigmaNEST Systems GmbH delivers the ´Cockpit´ for managing

Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. has launched the Vectorworks Design Scholarship program to recognize students around the world who are pursuing education as a means to build their skills and solve challenging design problems. Students across all design disciplines may submit their best work, created in any software program, and answer a few short questions to be considered for cash prizes up to $10,000 USD and other awards. “Students represent the next generation of creative potential, so we launched this program to help them achieve their professional goals,” said the company’s Chief Marketing Officer Stewart Rom. “The Vectorworks Design Scholarship gives us the opportunity to inspire young minds, remove some of the financial pressures associated with higher education and put into students’ hands the tools they need to develop their ideas from concept to completion.” The scholarship program supports promising students on two levels. First, Vectorworks Design Scholarships will be presented to multiple winners

The deadline for submissions to the second annual 2014 Altair Enlighten Award is drawing near. Submissions will only be accepted through Friday, May 23, 2014. The Enlighten Award, presented in collaboration with the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), is the automotive industry's only award program created specifically to acknowledge innovations in vehicle lightweighting. The award winner will be announced on the first day of the 2014 CAR Management Briefing Seminars (MBS) taking place Aug. 4-7 in Traverse City, Michigan. "We are excited to see the broad range of solutions that vehicle manufacturers and suppliers are creating to meet their weight and performance goals," said David Mason, Senior Vice President, Global Automotive for Altair. "Last year's award was met with great enthusiasm throughout the automotive industry and demonstrated some highly innovative uses of simulation and optimization technologies along with new advancements in processes and materials." The Altair Enlighten Award aims to recognize achievements

Autodesk, Inc. today announced that it will offer schools in the United States and Canada free access to its professional 3D design software and creativity applications. This represents the next step in the continued transformation of Autodesk’s education business model in order to fulfill its mission of helping students and educators imagine, design and create a better world. Autodesk’s pledge is valued at over $460 million, and empowers educators at more than 35,000 middle schools, high schools, and higher education institutions in the United States and Canada. “Advances in accessible 3D design and fabrication technology are disrupting design, engineering and entertainment professions as we know them. The rise in mobile and cloud technology also means that it is possible to design anywhere, at any time. Nearly anyone with an idea can turn concepts into reality overnight, and we believe that today’s students will shape tomorrow’s industries,” said Tom Joseph, senior director of education,

ANSYS and GE Aviation are deepening their long-standing strategic relationship by establishing a new joint technology collaboration agreement that will help solve future engineering challenges and drive product development processes in a world of smart products and big data. Both organizations recognize the value of cutting-edge research and are jointly aligned in their desire to spur innovation by creatively applying simulation to the manufacturing and industrial space.  ANSYS and GE Aviation will work together over a range of applications to establish forward-looking analysis techniques that leverage expertise from both parties. In the first project under this agreement, ANSYS and GE Aviation will investigate industry data to create new engineering best practices associated with the accurate analysis of some of GE's core industrial products. Projects may include simulation of system-level product performance, enhanced by live data, to predict overall system efficiency and maximize product life. GE currently leverages ANSYS engineering simulation technology across

Malcolm Panthaki, Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Comet Solutions In his role as company Chief Technology Officer, Malcolm Panthaki drives product vision and technical strategy and is closely involved in corporate development, sales activities, and strategic customer projects. Malcolm has been at the cutting edge of CAE software development since 1987. He started his career as a CAE software engineer at an engineering consulting firm, after which he moved to ABAQUS Inc., where he led the effort to complete an interactive environment for ABAQUS/CAE. Malcolm left ABAQUS in 1994 when he clearly saw that customers using the variety of tools from different vendors were unable to conduct simulation easily or early enough due to the complexities of a typical CAE environment. He set off to build a technology framework that could handle the complexity of CAE data, processes, and results in one common data model. Malcolm provided software consulting services for

Siemens’ NX™ Nastran® software is now available on Rescale, an on-demand, dynamically scalable cloud environment delivered through a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. The new joint solution, which integrates on-demand high-performance computing (HPC) hardware with the industry’s leading finite element analysis (FEA) software, will be delivered by Rescale, Inc., a leading cloud simulation platform provider. Engineers can now seamlessly customize compute capacity, based on individual simulation requirements, to perform virtual product simulations. Rescale’s web-based platform allows engineers to easily run numerous instances of NX Nastran, resulting in cost-effective large scale simulations that more thoroughly evaluate design options. This results in improved efficiency, product quality and faster time-to-market. Using the Rescale platform, NX Nastran users can run hundreds of simulations simultaneously, leveraging a pay-per-use operating expense model. This can be a more cost effective option for new customers to quickly gain the benefits of NX Nastran, a product of Siemens’ product lifecycle management

Delcam is pleased to announce that its FeatureCAM range of feature-based CAM software products has been certified by the Autodesk Inventor Certified Application Program for Autodesk Inventor 2015 mechanical design and engineering software. Since Autodesk’s acquisition of Delcam in February 2014, the two companies have been working together to more closely integrate their technology, and this certification is the first step in this process.   This program certifies that FeatureCAM software applications have been tested by Autodesk engineers to ensure that they meet the highest standards set for strength, quality and interoperability with the latest version of Inventor, the industry’s leading Digital Prototyping software that enables engineers to design, visualise and simulate products before they are built.  “Increased interoperability offers huge benefits to our customers who use Autodesk Inventor as they can open Inventor parts seamlessly in FeatureCAM, with no loss of data or concerns about translation errors,” said Tom McCollough, Vice President of

Dassault Systèmes today announced a new industry solution experience, based on its 3DEXPERIENCE platform, called “Façade Design for Fabrication.” This new industry solution experience is targeted at architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) companies and provides industry-specific processes and capabilities to address the challenges of designing and delivering high performance buildings. “This new industry solution experience based on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform supports an intuitive, intelligent and integrated environment that reduces manual processes, and addresses the poor collaboration created by the industry’s current siloed point solutions,” said Monica Menghini, Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy, Industry and Marketing. “In the end, the ‘Façade Design for Fabrication’ industry solution experience is about making better decisions earlier and reducing rework so our AEC partners can reliably and profitably exceed their customer’s expectations.” The “Façade Design for Fabrication” industry solution experience includes integrated planning that allows for quickly conceiving buildings linked directly with façade detail design, leveraging the scalability