Education Newsletter Spring / Summer 2013

Expanding our ReachSynergis Engineering Design Solutions is now providing our technical expertise, services, and support to schools anywhere in the United States. Synergis has been serving the education community and industry for over 27 years, achieving numerous Autodesk awards in addition to being one of the first Platinum tier partners.

With over 350 years of engineering experience, advanced degreed engineers, and over 1000 schools looking to Synergis to help them stay ahead, we help the education community prepare students for the engineering world of tomorrow that involves teaching not only the latest software tools, but apps, BIM, Digital Prototyping, and cloud technology.

We also serve the architectural, construction, engineering, and manufacturing industries, many of the same companies your students will work for after graduating. So we know the skill sets and efficiencies that employers are looking for in new hires, to help you build a program and classroom lab that prepares your students to succeed.

What’s Inside

What’s new in Autodesk 2014 for Education

Synergis Helpdesk Supports Your Curriculum and Labs

Synergis Third Annual Student Competitions

Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite Ultimate

Autodesk Subscription: Economical Value

Mobile Apps Suitable for the Classroom

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What’s new in Autodesk 2014 for Education? The new Autodesk line-up is helping you teach students professional workflows that allows engineers and designers to communicate, share and design with teams located anywhere. In addition, Autodesk in improving the value of the Design Suites by making it easier to create 3d designs from both laser scans and digital photos. Incorporate products or the environment, even if you do not have the design documentation. Here are some of the other new features for 2014.

In every 2014 Autodesk Design Suite:No need to start from scratch in designing. With Autodesk® ReCap, you can bring in the actual job site or product through the laser scan or digital image to start with points, then add, modify, validate and document from there.

Another addition in most Suites is Autodesk® AutoCAD® Raster Design. This powerful vector conversion software will allow you to take advantage of raster images, maps, aerial photos, satellite imagery, and digital elevation models by enabling you to edit, enhance and maintain scanned drawings or plans.

Autodesk Design Suites Highlights for 2014:

Extending the CloudWith Autodesk 360, the power of your Autodesk solutions are multiplied. Design, visualize, simulate and share your designs and ideas with anyone from anywhere. New tools are added each year and for 2014, Autodesk® InfraWorks 2014 has been included for Infrastructure Design Suite and Building Design Suite customers. This tool, formerly known as Autodesk® Infrastructure Modeler, assists engineers with BIM adoption for planning, design, construction and management of civil infrastructure projects.

See 360.autodesk.com for more on the benefits of the cloud.

To download the new Autodesk Suites when they are available see our videos at www.synergis.com/educationinstall

Autodesk® Building Design Suite• Autodesk® InfraWorks 2014 and

Optimization for Inventor cloud service

Autodesk® Entertainment Creation Suite • Most affordable pricing ever offered • New workflows: populate feature to

generate moving or idle crowds, improved viewport display and more

Autodesk® Factory Design Suite• More than 300 new factory assets

Autodesk® Infrastructure Design Suite • Autodesk® InfraWorks 2014 • Autodesk Roads and Highways module

for InfraWorks• AutoCAD® Utility Design – a single,

comprehensive version of Revit products including architectural, MEP and structure

Autodesk® Planet Design Suite• Autodesk® Inventor® with Routed

Systems

Autodesk® Product Design Suite• Autodesk® Inventor® Professional and

access to Optimization for Inventor cloud service

• Autodesk® Navisworks® Manage for clash detection

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We know teachers, professors, and the IT departments supporting them all focus on helping students learn skills that will help them succeed in life.We also know that you have additional responsibilities that make it hard to keep up on the latest software features, design best practices, and IT requirements. This is where we come in.

Synergis Helpdesk is comprised of industry trained professionals who have worked in the field, with schools, and with Autodesk engineers and developers to ensure that they are offering the best practices and the most efficient workflow, while helping your IT department install and maintain your design labs.

Contact us if you have a question (or if one of your students asks you one that you don’t know). We want to help you succeed so you can focus on helping them succeed.

Synergis Helpdesk Supports Your Curriculum and Labs

REACH OUR HELPDESK IN 3 WAYS:

1. Helpdesk Portal: http://salesforce.synergis.com/SelfServicePortal/

2. Log a ticket via email: support@synergis.com

3. Call us: 800.836.5440

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3rd Annual Student Competitions

About the F1 Challenge:If you don’t know about the F1 challenge, it is open to high schools and middle schools and focuses on inspiring students to learn more about engineering. The challenge is not just the design or racing of the cars however. The students are required to run the project like a business. They are required to find sponsors to cover the costs of all expenses, find mentors and consultants, and create a marketing and business plan, in addition to designing and manufacturing their product (the car). Learn more and visit the F1 Challenge Website (www.f1inschools.sae.org).

Learn more about our annual competitions at

www.synergis.com/industries/education

Synergis–F1 Competition Winners!For the last three years, Synergis has been supporting the F1 in Schools students by offering a competition and additional prizes (including cash) for students to win. All they need to do is submit their design portfolio additionally to Synergis for our engineers to review for design. Our engineers focus on how the students designed, evaluated and validated their cars.

On March 9th, we presented the awards at the regional F1 Regional Pennsylvania Championship at Robert Morris University in Moon Township, PA.

We awarded Lunar Racing First Place because of their car design, and their interactive display was impressive as well.

Rush International team members work to increase the speed of their car between runs.

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First Place: Lunar Racing, from Pine-Richland High School

Prize: $1,000 and the opportunity to present at Synergis University.

Lunar Racing used visualization in addition to simulating their designs before creating a physical model, they also created rendered eye-catching images of their designs. Visualization is a step in the workflow that enables stakeholders and future buyers a photo-realistic view of a product before its produced. It is easier on the eyes than a 2D drawing and more confident design decisions can be made early in the process, creating less time and material waste in physical prototypes.

Second Place: Rush International, from Wilson West Middle School

Prize: $500 and the opportunity to present at Synergis University.

This was Rush’s first year competing and even though they started later than most teams, they placed First for Middle Schools at the race. Why did our engineers like their project? They used the simulation tools inside Inventor to test the design, before building the prototypes. This is a practice that most manufacturers are using to cut down on costs and on time to market.

Third Place: The tScreaming Eagles, from South Park High School

Prize: Opportunity to present and attend at Synergis University.

This team has been together for 7 years and it shows in their work. At the championship, they had an eye-catching display with multiple iPads to explain the design process and tell more about the team. In addition they also had several versions of the car on built-in shelves. Our engineers liked most that they used the Free Autodesk Labs app, Project Falcon (an addition to Inventor), to simulate and test the force effects on their design.

During the month of May, you will have the opportunity to vote on your favorite design by high school students. You might remember last year, we had introduced a project to design a community center focused on energy and cost efficiency and we had great projects entered. It was close race among the top three last year on Facebook and this year is even better.

Design Project: Adaptive Re-Use

Our industry clients are doing as much reconstruction it seems as new construction. To make classroom learning true to life, we recreated an old ‘Main Street” double with a storefront and offered drawings and pictures of the structure today. The project is to reconstruct the current building into a children’s museum. Giving the students real drawings and space constrictions allows them to understand the real-world design concerns of the day.

Check it out on our Synergis Engineering Design Solutions’ Facebook page and enter there to win 2 passes to see the winners present at Synergis University 2013 on June 5.

Screaming Eagles team members have competed together for 7 years.

Architecture Competition – Vote Now!

Autodesk® Entertainment Creation Suite Ultimate

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Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite Ultimate is now offered at a reasonable price to provide academic institutions teaching tools for 3D modeling, digital sculpting, texture painting, animation, effects, and rendering in the classroom.

This suite includes:• Autodesk® Maya®• Autodesk® MotionBuilder® • Autodesk® MudboxTM • Autodesk® SketchBook® Designer • Autodesk® Softimage® • Autodesk® 3ds Max®

The online learning content found on the Autodesk Digital STEAM Workshop supports this suite with project based learning videos for the Autodesk Maya application. Autodesk® Maya® 3D animation software delivers an end-to-end creative workflow with comprehensive tools for animation, modeling, simulation, visual effects, rendering, match moving, and compositing on a highly extensible production platform. Autodesk Maya delivers new toolsets for revisualization and games prototyping, extended simulation with improved pipeline integration.

Autodesk® Subscription: Economical ValueAutodesk Subscription offers benefits for schools that go beyond the seats of software in your labs.With Autodesk® Subscription, you can:• Receive the new versions automatically, download when you like.• Stay on older versions of software if you choose. • Prepare lessons from a non-school computer with home-use licensing. • Access additional tools with enhanced Autodesk 360 features for Subscription Customers. • Autodesk® 360 • Virtually unlimited computing access for simulation and rendering in the cloud. • View, store, and share drawings with more storage space so you and your students have access to designs from anywhere. • Collaborate with Autodesk 360 Mobile Apps. • Better predict expenses for your budget.

Check out more benefits and services of Autodesk 360 at 360.autodesk.com

Contact us if you have any questions about adding Autodesk Subscription.

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Mobile Apps Suitable for the Classroom

Autodesk is developing more and more mobile apps to bring learning to your students where they are… everywhere. Check out these mobile apps by Autodesk that inspire learning, engineering, and fun!

Here are a few of our favorites:

Autodesk® Digital STEAM Applied Mechanics Explores 5 essential concepts in mechanics including Energy and Work, Force, Power, Loading, and Mechanisms.

123D® Catch Turn your photos into 3D models that you can use to design.

Autodesk® ForceEffectTM This app is widely used in the F1 Competitions to analyze draft and other forces on the digital prototypes of the race cars to correct any lines before manufacturing physical prototypes.

Instructables Useful app for how to on anything from CAD to cooking. Over 100,000 technology tutorials to help with just about anything. Create innovative projects and share them with the community.

Autodesk® Formit Conceptualize, analyze, and share early building design concepts digitally, anywhere ideas strike.

Autodesk® Digital STEAM Visual Design Expand understanding of the elements and principles of design. Teaches how to integrate elements of a design project, and how it impacts a project’s functional and aesthetic characteristics; explores how culture can influence design and how innovation improves quality of life, and much more.

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Synergis University 2013June 5, 2013 at The Sands HotelJoin us for our full day technology events including speakers like Lynn Allen, AutoCAD Evangelist and Robert Green, in addition to our own Synergis Experts as they bring you dozens of topics to help you keep your students at the leading edge of design. From industry trends and business outlook to technical how to design sessions, we cover everything you have questions on. And if you do have additional questions, there will be dozens of knowledgeable instructors there that have the answers.

Autodesk is providing teachers and students with more resources than ever, and during a special educator centered lunch session, you will learn how together we can move your students to the top of the class and employment opportunities. Network with industry professionals that hire your students to better align your curriculum to business needs.

Visit www.synergisu.com to learn more or register

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