Get Calibrated!

Get Calibrated!

In the 1973 movie, Magnum Force, Harry Callahan (played by Clint Eastwood) battles a group of vigilante cops led by Inspector Briggs.  It’s a classic action movie with Callahan eliminating the v…

Is April 2014 the Next Y2K?

Is April 2014 the Next Y2K?

Microsoft is ending support for Windows XP on April 8th, 2014.If your company is still running XP on ANY computers, you should act now. …

Howard University Students Design Future Public Transportation

Howard University Students Design Future Public Transportation

Meet Nicolas Hunter, Atiba Brereton and Matthew Clarke – three very bright future engineers at Howard University. I first met the trio at the PACE Annual Forum in late July where they won first place…

NX Technology Preview – Touchless Design System

NX Technology Preview – Touchless Design System

On August 23rd, Elon Musk Musk of SpaceX posted a video of a “touch-less design system”. The demonstration consisted ofNX plus some custom drivers for a Leap Motion Controller.The video…

NX 9 represents 50 years of CAM software in the making

NX 9 represents 50 years of CAM software in the making

When Siemens PLM Software released the latest version of NX TM software (NX 9), it didn’t just modernize the user interface, introduce a deluge of new productivity enhancements and increase the ver…

Meet EcoCAR Engineer Lucas Shoults and Mary the Malibu

Meet EcoCAR Engineer Lucas Shoults and Mary the Malibu

Lucas Shoults is a first-year graduate student engineer at Virginia Tech (VT). He is majoring in mechanical engineering and is the business manager of VT’s EcoCAR 2 team. I met Lucas at the EcoCAR 2 …

A Conversation with Dr. Jewel Barlow of the University of Maryland

A Conversation with Dr. Jewel Barlow of the University of Maryland

I visited the beautiful campus of the University of Maryland (UMD) in September to sit down with Dr. Jewel Barlow, one of the advocates who helped bring Siemens PLM software on campus to locations li…

Introducing NX 9

Introducing NX 9

Today we are proud to announce the latest release of Siemens’ NX™ software, NX 9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy8amedQH30 NX9 includes new tools like synchronous technology fo…

Meet University of Michigan Student Engineer Garrett Simard

Meet University of Michigan Student Engineer Garrett Simard

The University of Michigan is finishing up the World Solar Challenge and like any good real-world student project, they’ve experience interesting challenges along the way. We’ll share more about the …