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Altair unveils CAE software for students

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Altair Engineering, a provider of simulation technology and engineering services, on Friday announced the launch of the HyperWorks 11.0 Student Edition, a personal academic version of the popular suite of computer-aided engineering (CAE) software used by manufacturers around the world.

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The Student Edition offers opportunities for engineering and design students to gain experience in computer simulation with the same software that engineering professionals use to design and develop everything from aircraft and automobiles to computer chips and golf clubs.

As part of the program’s global rollout, the first 200 students in each country to register at the Altair Online Store will receive the HyperWorks 11.0 Student Edition for free, the company said in a press release.

“Simulation is the fastest-growing market sector in the PLM market, from the earliest phases of conceptual design through to manufacturing the product, and demand is high for graduates with simulation experience,” said Matthias Goelke, business development director for academic markets at Altair Engineering.

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“Our goal with this program is simply to make our commercial tools and training materials more broadly available to students to expose and encourage careers in engineering and CAE,” he added.

The HyperWorks Student Edition program further extends and complements Altair’s ongoing academia support initiatives, which include discounted university licensing programs, Altair’s University Fellowship program and collegiate competitions like Formula SAE.

A key differentiator of the Student Edition program is that, for a nominal fee, students can install HyperWorks locally on their personal hardware and access self-guided training materials for independent study outside of the university network infrastructure.

“The HyperWorks 11.0 Student Edition is an important and highly appreciated add-on to the HyperWorks suite that I use for teaching. My students now can use a commercial CAE software package locally on their own hardware, which gives all of us a great deal of flexibility,” said Prof. Dr. Uwe Janoske, University of Wuppertal, Germany.

With the HyperWorks 11.0 Student Edition, students receive an extended set of e-learning tutorials and a complementary starter kit manual — a HyperWorks best-practices guide for beginners. The Student Edition also contains a simplified FEM process guide embedded within the software.