University of California Receives $57 Million In-kind Software Grant from Siemens PLM Software

By DE Editors

Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, has announced an in-kind software grant with a commercial value of $57 million to the University of California’s, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). The in-kind investment, provided through the Siemens PLM Software’s GO PLM (Global Opportunities in Product Lifecycle Management) program, includes engineering software, instructor training, and academic support that will be available to students and staff throughout four of the university’s campuses: Berkeley, Davis, Merced, and Santa Cruz.

“This generous investment will boost our students’ design skills and give them a competitive edge in the engineering work force,” said S. Shankar Sastry, dean of engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. “We’re especially excited to use it in design project courses, where student groups create comprehensive engineering solutions to problems in health care, transportation, manufacturing, and commercial environments.”

"Siemens PLM Software’s NX software is a leading finite element analysis, meshing, and visualization solution for a wide variety of modeling in all fields of engineering, architecture, and applied math and physics, including geophysics,” said Paul Wright, director of CITRIS and a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of California at Berkeley. “We are extremely grateful to Siemens PLM Software for their generous gift. More than one thousand students, research staff, and professors across the four-campus Institute of CITRIS are expected to use this extraordinary facility."

Siemens PLM Software’s GO PLM initiative brings together four complementary community involvement programs focused on academic partnership, regional productivity, youth, and displaced worker development and the PACE (Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education) program. GO PLM provides PLM technology to more than 1 million students yearly at nearly 10,200 global institutions.

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