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Michigan Solar Car team wins eighth national championship

This Monday, the University of Michigan (U-M) Solar Car completed a seven-day, 1722-mile race to win the 2014 American Solar Challenge. This is the eighth time that the University of Michigan has won...

Enterprise vs. Developers: How Can ADLM Tool Vendors Conquer the Divide?

There are two conflicting (or at least contradictory) viewpoints in the market for application development lifecycle management (ADLM) tools. There is enterprise management that needs to comply with ...

Simulate the Real World Using Multiphysics

Product behavior in the real world is influenced simultaneously by multiple domains of physics, making multiphysics analysis a growing necessity for computer-aided engineering (CAE). ...

Designcenter Solid Edge

Is it time to revisit CAD in the Cloud?

CAD in the Cloud. It’s a topic I thought I’d never return to. It’s a topic that won’t go away, although the context in which you hear about it these days is changing. I want to look at CAD in the clo...

Online Short Course: Requirements Management with Polarion LiveDocs

Are you taking your first looks at Polarion REQUIREMENTS and wondering "Where do I start with this?". Or maybe your company already has Polarion, and you have new teams or team members who need to ge...

Femap Custom Tools Documentation

Occasionally a handy new feature of Femap sneaks under the radar, and we recently stumbled across new documentation for the Femap Custom Tools. The Custom Tools were previously "documented...

Electronic Systems Design

Back side cap mounting

Earlier this year I wrote an article on maximizing capacitor effectiveness. I have since received a number of inquiries on...

By Patrick Carrier

Designcenter Solid Edge

CAD Standard for 3D Data

CAD standards have come a long way in the last 30 years or so. For 2D data, standards used to be mainly about layers and colors, and font size, and how to set up a drawing so it could be printed prop...

Embedded Software

Quick and dirty code checking and execution

I often need to do a bit of programming – normally C or C++. I am not generally writing a...

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