Campus-wide and enrollment licenses allow the widest possible access to CES EduPack, including installation on students’ own personal computers. More information on Campus-wide license intensively used for Architecture and first-year Materials Science. Madeleine Du Toit, Head of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering at the University of Pretoria, South Africa “A second five-year campus wide license for CES EduPack was recently purchased by the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology of the University of Pretoria. The software has successfully been in use for about seven years, mainly in undergraduate teaching. It is presently intensively used in the BSc Interior Architecture curriculum, as well as in a first-year module in Materials Science that is offered to most students in the School of Engineering. Post-graduate students in Architecture, Interior Architecture and Landscape Architecture are now also introduced to CES EduPack to better equip them in materials and process selection. The strong emphasis that is presently being placed on environmentally responsible materials selection and -usage is a potent driver for the use of this software.
CES EduPack has powerful tools as well as supporting data for making environmentally informed choices of materials and processes. “The flexibility of the CES EduPack software is a very attractive feature. For instance, the ability to start with a design, breaking it down into generic shape elements, and then seeing which manufacturing processes are suitable for producing such shapes is a very useful tool for a designer.
From the process, materials compatible with such a process can be selected. This knowledge is not often available to designers, so that this software allows them to tailor their designs to manufacturing and material constraints.” Campus-wide license extended to support international collaborations. Dr Stuart Barnes, Director of Professional Programmes at the University of Warwick notes that the university extended its campus-wide license to support teaching in an MSc in Engineering Business Management, delivered in collaboration with the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology and the Singapore Institute of Management. Dr Barnes comments “All of the participants on the programme are studying part-time and employed in various companies in Singapore (these range from aerospace to electrical component manufacturers). CES gave them a new way of looking at the materials selection and they were able to apply this to real-life examples from within their company.
CES certainly improved the educational experience for them.” Piloting the software led to a campus-wide licensing. Dr Hua-Xin Peng, University of Bristol, UK “In 2005, as part of a learning and teaching development initiative at the University of Bristol, we evaluated the CES EduPack Design and Aerospace Editions in the Aerospace Engineering Department of Faculty of Engineering. The feedback from students and lecturers at the end of the academic year 2005-6 was extremely positive, with comments including:.
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I have found the software to be highly informative as a research tool. The software is very/extremely useful and made the understanding of material selection to be a quick and easy process.
Easy to use and it gives information that is very easy to comprehend quickly. I like the way the data is presented—very clear. Very good when used in conjunction with the lecture notes.
As a result, it has been decided to extend the use of the CES EduPack across other departments through a Faculty License.”. The license at the University of Bristol’s Faculty of Engineering uses Granta’s Campus-wide license scheme.
Students use EduPack software on their own PCs. Prof Rajesh Bhaskaran, Cornell University, USA, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering “The enrollment license works well for us because it allows our students to run CES on their own computers while they are at Cornell. Anecdotal evidence suggests that students really appreciate having the software on their personal machines since this makes it convenient for them to access the software.” Home-based students use EduPack software on their own PCs. Professor Stephen Kampe, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, USA CES EduPack has been made available to home-based students, studying the Materials Selection and Design 2nd Year course.
Professor Kampe reports that students in locations from New Mexico to Florida each uses the EduPack software on their own PC to help develop an understanding of the relationships between materials properties and design, and to help them complete their course work. Ease-of-use and interactivity.