Bentley Announces MicroStation Academic Suite Priced at $190US; Industry's Most-Affordable, Best-Supported CAD Academic Package is Latest Addition to Fast-Growing Academic Program.EXTON, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 7, 1995--Bentley Systems, Inc., the leader in professional computer-aided design computer-aided design (CAD) or computer-aided design and drafting (CADD), form of automation that helps designers prepare drawings, specifications, parts lists, and other design-related elements using special graphics- and calculations-intensive products and services to engineers, architects, drafters, and organizations whose overall success relies on computer-aided design, today announced a special MicroStation Academic Suite(TM) available to students and instructors for a list price of $190US. The suite contains several leading-edge MicroStation(R) products and, combined with Bentley's support for academic users, creates the CAD industry's most affordable, best-supported academic package. The breakthrough offering is the most recent addition to the very successful Bentley Academic Program, which has grown to over 40,000 users, displaced Autodesk at several large institutions, and offered software grants valued at over $2M during the past year. Included in the MicroStation Academic Suite are MicroStation V5 for 2D/3D design and engineering, MicroStation Modeler(TM) for high-end solid modeling, MicroStation Masterpiece(TM) for engineering visualization, and MicroStation PowerDraft(TM) for high-productivity drafting. The tools in the suite are full-function, unrestricted products valued at over $9,000 and are supported by Bentley. Yoav Etiel, Bentley vice president of product marketing, comments, "Previously, academic users had limited access to professional CAD because of price and support considerations. The MicroStation Academic Suite now offers them, for the first time, professional-level tools and support at an academically-affordable price." Etiel explains, "We hope to bring the full capabilities and benefits of CAD to a whole new population of academic institutions and users." Brent Adams, professor of design at Brigham Young University Brigham Young University, at Provo, Utah; Latter-Day Saints; coeducational; opened as an academy in 1875 and became a university in 1903. It is noted for its law and business schools. , comments, "The MicroStation Academic Suite is a great opportunity for students and institutions. We have two student labs with Microstation installed and are advising all of our industrial and interior design students to buy copies for themselves." Adams adds, "From our experience, all parties receive outstanding benefits. For example, the school's labs are free for more classes, the faculty are able to present more complex subjects, and the students learn faster and are better prepared for their profession." The Bentley Academic Program The Bentley Academic Program is committed to making students and schools successful at CAD in all engineering and design disciplines. The program offers professional CAD products and support to academic users through discounted packages, special classroom licensing, and software grants to schools. The company also sponsors an annual student design competition, offers software grants to research projects, and holds special events for academic users at forums and trade shows throughout the year. The company and its program place a special emphasis on comprehensive support for academic users. Schools who purchase the MicroStation Classroom License Plan receive two years of subscription to the company's comprehensive support program (Academic MicroStationCSP(SM)), which includes direct line technical support, product upgrades and enhancements, customization training, platform swaps at no charge, and more. All academic users receive direct e-mail, FAX, and telephone call-back technical support from Bentley's Academic Support Services and can communicate with the company and other users through MicroStation forums on America Online, CompuServe, and Internet newsgroups This is a list of newsgroups that are significant for their popularity or their position in Usenet history. As of October 2002, there are about 100,000 Usenet newsgroups, of which approximately a fifth are active. . Bentley's Academic Program has grown to over 40,000 users and offered software grants valued at over $2M during the past year. Beneficiaries of grants include Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, Ga.; coeducational; state supported; chartered 1885, opened 1888. It is a member school in the university system of Georgia. Significant among its facilities and programs are the Frank H. , Penn State, University of Washington, Kent State, the University of Virginia and the University of New Zealand The University of New Zealand was the New Zealand university from 1870 to 1961. It was the sole New Zealand university, having a federal structure embracing several constituent colleges at various locations around New Zealand. . Other universities and schools among the over 100 worldwide participants include Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, N.Y.; coeducational; founded and opened 1824 as Rensselaer School; chartered 1826. It was called Rensselaer Institute from 1837 to 1861. , the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). , the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, , Harvard University, Carnegie Mellon, Vanderbilt University, and the University of British Columbia Locations Vancouver The Vancouver campus is located at Point Grey, a twenty-minute drive from downtown Vancouver. It is near several beaches and has views of the North Shore mountains. The 7. . Larry Logue, professor of mechanical engineering technology at Southern College of Technology, comments, "We are extremely happy with Bentley's Academic Program. They are very responsive and clearly understand that, in academics as in the commercial side, support is essential for success." Logue adds, "MicroStation is the standard for all of our introductory design courses and our upper level mechanical design courses. We train about 700 students a year on MicroStation." Bentley also participates in a number of educational groups including the Association of Computer Aided Design (application) Computer Aided Design - (CAD) The part of CAE concerning the drawing or physical layout steps of engineering design. Often found in the phrase "CAD/CAM" for ".. manufacturing". in Architecture (ACADIA Acadia (əkā`dēə), Fr. Acadie, region and former French colony, E Canada, encompassing modern Nova Scotia but also New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and coastal areas of E Maine. After an abortive 1604 settlement of St. ), the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC IDEC Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor (Portugese: Brazilian Consumer Protection Agency) IDEC Information Design & End-User Computing IDEC Interior Design Educators Council, Inc. ), AEC AEC US Atomic Energy Commission Noun 1. AEC - a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States Atomic Energy Commission Total Teach, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE ASEE American Society of Engineering Education ASEE American Society of Electrical Engineers ASEE American Society for Ethics in Education ASEE Association of Supervisory & Executive Engineers (Ireland) ASEE Automated Systems Engineering Environment ), and the American Vocational Association (AVA Ava, in the Bible Ava (ā`və), in the Bible, an unidentified city of Mesopotamia, perhaps the same as Ivah. Its inhabitants are called Avites. ). Availability The MicroStation Academic Suite is available through campus bookstores and academic MicroStation value-added resellers (MVARs). The suite is priced at $190US for students and educators at all colleges, universities, and schools for use in academic-related courses and projects. Versions are now available for personal computers running DOS, Windows(TM), Windows NT(TM) and for the Macintosh(R) and Power Macintosh(TM). The Macintosh versions do not include MicroStation Modeler and MicroStation PowerDraft. More on Bentley Bentley Systems, Inc. is the leader in professional computer-aided design products and services to engineering organizations where CAD is mission-critical. The company's MicroStation product range is relied upon by over 200,000 professional users, over 40,000 academic users, and over 600 commercial application developers worldwide in the architecture/engineering/construction (AEC), geographic information systems (GIS), and mechanical design markets. Founded in 1984, Bentley has now become one of the world's fastest growing software companies. For more information on the MicroStation Academic Suite or Bentley's Academic Program, please contact Bentley at 800/BENTLEY, via the Internet at academic@bentley.com, or on the World Wide Web at http://www.bentley.com/. -0- MicroStation is a registered trademark; MicroStation Academic Suite, MicroStation Modeler, MicroStation Masterpiece and MicroStation PowerDraft are trademarks; and MicroStationCSP is a service mark of Bentley Systems, Inc. Macintosh is a registered trademark and Power Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Windows and Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. 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