Ansoft Chairman and CTO Dr. Zoltan Cendes Receives IEEE AP-S Distinguished Achievement Award.

PITTSBURGH -- Ansoft Corporation (NASDAQ: ANST) founder, chairman and chief technology officer Dr. Zoltan Cendes received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Distinguished Achievement Award.

The award, given to Cendes for his "contributions to the widespread use of user-friendly software tools for electromagnetic analysis and design," recognizes outstanding career achievements by an individual in the field of antennas and propagation.

Cendes accepted the award last night at the awards banquet of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and the 2008 United States National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science (USNC/URSI) National Radio Science Meeting.

In addition to his responsibilities at Ansoft, Cendes is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. He has served as professor of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon, as an associate professor of electrical engineering at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and as an engineer in the Corporate Research and Development Center of the General Electric Company in Schenectady, New York. Cendes, who received his MS and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from McGill, is a Fellow of the IEEE and has served on the editorial board of IEEE Spectrum, on the International Steering Committee of the Compumag conference and as an IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer.

About the IEEE AP-S

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) promotes experimental and theoretical advances in the design and development of antennas and in the propagation of electromagnetic waves, including scattering, diffraction and interaction with continuous media. The IEEE AP-S also promotes applications such as remote sensing, applied optics and millimeter and submillimeter wave techniques. To learn more about the IEEE AP-S and the Distinguished Lecturer Program, visit www.ieeeaps.org. For information on other IEEE fields of interest, visit www.ieee.org/organizations/society.

About Ansoft

Ansoft is a leading developer of high-performance electronic design automation (EDA) software. Engineers use Ansoft software to achieve first-pass system success when designing mobile communication and Internet-access devices, broadband networking components and systems, integrated circuits (ICs), printed circuit boards (PCBs) and electromechanical systems. Ansoft markets its products worldwide through its own direct sales force and has comprehensive customer-support and training offices throughout North America, Asia and Europe. To learn more, please visit www.ansoft.com.