{"id":510,"date":"2013-03-08T17:57:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T01:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Cal-State-LA-and-Siemens-PLM-Software-Collaborate-on-EcoCAR2\/ba-p\/335073"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:29:53","slug":"cal-state-la-and-siemens-plm-software-collaborate-on-ecocar2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/cal-state-la-and-siemens-plm-software-collaborate-on-ecocar2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal State LA and Siemens PLM Software Collaborate on EcoCAR2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Over on the GreenGarageBlog, the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csulaecocar2.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Cal State<\/A>&nbsp;Los Angeles team shared a blog post and video they produced on their use of NX and Teamcenter on their EcoCAR 2 vehicle.<BR \/><\/P><BLOCKQUOTE>&#8220;<STRONG><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greengarageblog.org\/2013\/02\/28\/siemens-plm-software-at-the-core-of-cal-state-las-ecocar-2-team-design-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Siemens PLM Software: At the Core of Cal State LA\u2019s EcoCAR 2 Team Design<\/A>&#8220;<\/STRONG><\/BLOCKQUOTE><BR \/>EcoCAR 2 is one of the key <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/about_us\/goplm\/projects-competitions\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">projects &amp; competitions<\/A>&nbsp;we support. Thanks to our own <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jsarfati\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Jerry Sarfati<\/A> for working with the Cal State team. In addition to software, we provide EcoCAR2 teams access to folks like Jerry as well as our customer support. We also inviteeducators and team leaders to take our instructor-led training for free. David Schmidt, one of the mechanical team leaders,took a course in our Cypress, CA, office. He notes:<BR \/><BLOCKQUOTE>\u201cI was proficient enough in NX for design to come back to my team and teach other members. The result was us being able to use NX and FEA to design and build new parts for our Chevy Malibu.\u201d<\/BLOCKQUOTE><BR \/>Here is Cal State&#8217;s video:<BR \/><BR \/>http:\/\/youtu.be\/htAFAQjMNMc<BR \/><BR \/>If you&#8217;re an EcoCAR 2 team, be sure to access our <a href=\"http:\/\/support.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/gtac.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Global Technical Access Center<\/A> for support and have your team leaders check out our&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/training.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">instructor-led training<\/A> courses. Let me know if you need more information.<BR \/><BR \/>&#8211; Dora<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on the GreenGarageBlog, the&nbsp;Cal State&nbsp;Los Angeles team shared a blog post and video they produced on their use of NX and Teamcenter on their EcoCAR 2 vehicle.    &#8220;Siemens PLM Software:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61893,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[19],"industry":[],"product":[226,326],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-academic","product-nx","product-teamcenter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}