Alibre Design Enables True Collaborative Design for Penn State College of Engineering and International PRESTIGE Consortium of Engineering Schools.Business Editors & High Tech Writers RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2002 Alibre announced today that through a $1 million software grant, the College of Engineering at Penn State University will use the company's Alibre Design Alibre Design is a parametric feature-based three-dimensional Solid modeling CAD software created by Alibre, Inc. Overview Alibre Design is a mechanical engineering and design CAD tool capable of creating complex 3D models, assemblies, and 2D drawings. application. The university's Engineering Design & Graphics group, which teaches CAD and collaboration tools to all disciplines of engineering at the university, will use Alibre Design for design collaboration projects by student teams. Through the community-based grant, Alibre Design is also provided to the international PRESTIGE consortium of engineering schools, of which Penn State is a member. The Alibre Design application provides peer-to-peer data sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. and real-time collaborative mechanical design. The use of Alibre Design at Penn State will be led by Richard Devon, associate professor of engineering design; Sven Bilen, assistant professor, design and electrical engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. ; and Gul gul n. A stylized octagonal motif in Oriental rugs. [Persian, rose; see julep.] Kremer, assistant professor of engineering design and graphics. "At Penn State, we want our engineering students to have experience with the most advanced tools and programs," Devon said. "Alibre Design gives us a tool for data sharing, collaboration and engineering design in one comprehensive application." Penn State University has one of the nation's leading engineering schools--an undergraduate program ranked fourteenth, and a graduate program ranked eighth among public universities by recent reports from U.S. News & World Report U.S. News & World Report Weekly newsmagazine published in Washington, D.C. U.S. News was founded in 1933 by David Lawrence (1888–1973) to cover important domestic events; he founded World Report in 1945 to treat world news. The two magazines were merged in 1948. .(1) Through the PRESTIGE consortium, other universities will immediately use Alibre Design with their engineering students for collaborative design projects. "It's a great benefit to our student programs to have Alibre Design, a collaborative design tool that complements the many different CAD applications used by the PRESTIGE institutions," said Javier Sanchez Sierra, professor of engineering design, of the Escuela Superior de Ingenieros-Tecnun, at Universidad de Navarra in Spain. "In our students' international design projects, Alibre Design will be critical to data sharing and online collaboration." The PRESTIGE Consortium (Preparing Engineering Students to work in the Global Economy) was established in 2001 and includes eight engineering schools in France An incomplete '''list of colleges in France: Lycée
The software grant by Alibre is part of an ongoing education program to deploy Alibre Design among the next generation of mechanical engineers. "By providing this grant, Alibre can influence upcoming classes of new engineering graduates by providing hands-on access to collaborative design tools," said J. Paul Grayson Paul Grayson may be:
Alibre Inc. offers Alibre Design, the only low-cost, easy-to-deploy mechanical design and data-sharing application, built for the Internet with a peer-to-peer architecture. Support for open data standards through STEP maximizes users' existing investments in CAD and PDM (1) (Product Data Management) An information system used to manage the data for a product as it passes from engineering to manufacturing. The data includes plans, geometric models, CAD drawings, images, NC programs as well as all related project data, notes and , while making advanced design collaboration capabilities accessible to everyone. The results for manufacturers are slashed costs, boosted productivity, improved quality and shorter manufacturing cycles. Founded in 1997, Alibre is privately funded and based in Richardson, Texas. For more information, visit www.alibre.com or call 972/671-8492. Educational institutions should contact Greg Milliken, VP of marketing. 1 Sources: America's Best Colleges 2002, U.S. News & World Report; and America's Best Graduate Schools 2002, U.S. News & World Report Alibre and Alibre Design are trademarks of Alibre Inc. |
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