GoEngineer Blog

Engineering and design education often requires managing complex projects, balancing student needs, organizing file structures, and ensuring proper assessment workflows—all while delivering impactful lessons that prepare students for their future careers. If you’re an educator seeking tools to streamline these tasks, there’s good news: the 3DEXPERIENCE for Education platform is here to empower your teaching practice and save you valuable time. 

Proper SOLIDWORKS training can transform your ability to design precise, professional models, whether you’re working on simple parts or intricate assemblies. In this article, we’ll provide insights and recommendations for effectively modeling basic parts, presenting foundational techniques and tools in SOLIDWORKS that you can start applying today.

At Van Buren Technology Center in Lawrence, Michigan, instructor Josh Bridges teaches his 11th and 12th-grade students about the many facets of design. But Josh doesn’t just prepare his students to take a test, he prepares them for the workforce.  

If you want to learn SOLIDWORKS, training is essential to unlock its full potential. Between free online videos and forums, and certified professional training programs, it can be difficult to identify the best training option that fits your learning style and budget. In this blog, we compare free SOLIDWORKS training options to paid SOLIDWORKS training options with a focus on GoEngineer’s training options. 

 

For years, DS SOLIDWORKS has been a Crown Supplier of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology - a competition that uses robotics to inspire kids about careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)) and the software behind the FIRST competition fields. 

 

FIRST Robotics and STEM education helps shape and inspire the next generation of designers and manufacturers. At our GoEngineer training lab in Auburn Hills, MI, students from Lake Orion learned how to build a model phone cradle using SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software, that would then be 3D printed on a Stratasys Fortus 450 FDM 3D printer.

For the uninitiated, BattleBots is a robot combat competition, which in 2018 aired on the Discovery and Science channels. Participants design, build and operate 250 lb. remote-controlled armed and armored machines designed to fight in an arena combat elimination tournament.

Imagine an educational experience for budding engineers to leave textbooks and theory behind, and to design, build, and test real vehicles. Imagine those students racing their own vehicles in an intense and exciting competition against other university teams. Formula SAE Series Racing has been making this dream a reality for over three decades.