Siemens PLM Software Announces New Academic Initiative

By DE Editors

Siemens PLM Software has announced a call to action for customers of its Solid Edge software and Velocity Series portfolio that will enable them to help build the next generation of engineering talent. The company is looking to its customers to provide real-world engineering best practices for a new academic initiative.

“Our Solid Edge and Velocity Series customers produce some of the world’s most innovative products. They know how difficult it is to find and recruit new engineering graduates with the right set of skills and experience to quickly add value to their product design process,” says Karsten Newbury, senior vice president and general manager of the Velocity Series and Solid Edge business, Siemens PLM Software. “That is why it is so important for us to work closely with the people who best know how to, not only use modern product design technology, but also what it takes to effectively apply that technology to real world problems and come up with unique and creative solutions that will create value for their customers. By building new engineering curriculums around this knowledge, the benefits to the academic institutions, their students, the manufacturing industry and, of course, to our own customers will be truly significant.”

The academic initiative expands upon Siemens PLM Software’s GO PLM initiative. GO PLM provides PLM technology to more than one million students yearly at nearly 11,000 global institutions, where it is used at every academic level -- from grade schools to graduate engineering research programs.

For more information, visit Siemens PLM Software’s Solid Edge Academic program page.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.