Altair India

HYPERWORKS FOR STUDENTS

Altair User's Conference

Extracts from the Lukose Kuruvilla's speech:

"The initiative is to train engineering college students in areas of CAE that are pertinent to Altair's CAE applications. These are a series of titles directed at 3rd and 4th year engineering students and their faculty. There are 6 titles in all, in the first version. We may do more titles, depending on the feedback. Each training title is closely aligned to a CAE application. These are not designed to be application / software user guides. They do not teach which buttons to click or which menus to choose - that's not the intent at all. Each title is a unique combination of two components: the Student Guide and a Series of Projects.

Each Student Guide is a book that runs about 60 to 80 pages, and is designed to cover the theoretical foundations of the targeted CAE application. More importantly, the Student Guide is designed to be self-study material. This is a resource that will motivate students in colleges to study and learn on their own.

Each Project is a problem assignment that a teacher assigns to a student. We have 4 projects associated with each Student Guide. Each project has been carefully thought of and presented as a practical, industry-relevant design-engineering problem. It is meant to exercise a fairly intensive usage of the CAE application. Not only does the project specify the problem, it also explains how to solve it in a very detailed, step-by-step fashion.

Unlike the Student Guide, the Projects are not offered in book form - they are provided in a rich, multimedia format. The presentation technique used makes it very easy for the teacher to edit it. The projects should act as templates or starting points for projects that can be assigned to students. Teachers are free to present the projects in exactly the way we have presented them. But if they want to change the level of detail - to make it easier or harder - it's easy enough for them to do that.

We will incorporate feedback into the next version of the Guides.

The titles are:

A Designer's Guide to Finite Element Analysis (Radioss/Linear)

CAE and Design Optimization - Basics (OptiStruct)

CAE and Design Optimization - Advanced (HyperStudy)

CAE and Multi-Body Dynamics (MotionView and MotionSolve)

CAE and Metal-Forming (HyperForm and Radioss)

Managing the CAE Process (HyperWorks Process Manager)

Associated with each Guide is a Student Project Summary that the student or teacher can flip through to get a quick view of the project."