{"id":846,"date":"2019-02-21T12:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T20:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Academic-News\/To-Innovate-Lead-and-Debate-at-University-of-California-Irvine\/ba-p\/571113"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:12:01","slug":"to-innovate-lead-and-debate-at-university-of-california-irvine-engineering-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/to-innovate-lead-and-debate-at-university-of-california-irvine-engineering-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"To Innovate, Lead and Debate at University of California-Irvine Engineering Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><SPAN><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringconferenceuci.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\"><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline\" style=\"width: 999px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/09\/UCI-2.jpg\" alt=\"UCI.jpg\" title=\"UCI.jpg\" \/><\/span>University of California-Irvine Engineering Conference<\/A> is an undergraduate student-run conference that pushes engineers to utilize the knowledge in their fields of interest to solve real world engineering problems as they improve their public speaking and debate skills.&nbsp;It is a 3-day conference which provides engineering students a hands-on experience to solve contemporary problems through education, collaboration, and debate while investing in sustainable solutions.<\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN>Siemens showcased and did the training on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/global\/en\/products\/nx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">NX<\/A> and&nbsp;<\/SPAN><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/global\/en\/products\/simcenter\/STAR-CCM.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">STA<SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\">R-CC<\/SPAN><\/A><SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/global\/en\/products\/simcenter\/STAR-CCM.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">M+<\/A> products. NX training was well attended by 80 students and STAR-CCM+ by 60 students. In talking with the president of this organization-Mazen Nader Alkhatib, it was obvious that Siemens have started to have interest in UCI for PLM products now, which is terrific.&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN>Siemens collected few student resumes and this helps in the area of getting more engineering\/technical background students interested in joining Siemens!<\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN>Special thanks goes to Siemens colleagues Chris Penny, Himanshu Iyer, Mia Fujii, Jerry Sarfati for making this event very successful.&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN>We are looking forward to be involved in the upcoming event <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.uci.edu\/events\/2019\/3\/winter-design-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">2019 Winter Design Review<\/A>.<\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN>If you are interested in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/global\/en\/topic\/academia-educator\/12643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">Siemens Academic Patnership Program<\/A>, please fill out our online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/global\/en\/our-story\/partners\/partner-program-grant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">grant application<\/A> form.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of California-Irvine Engineering Conference is an undergraduate student-run conference that pushes engineers to utilize the knowledge in their fields of interest to solve real world engine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57565,"featured_media":850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/09\/UCI-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}