[Faculty] New policy regarding the use of Solidworks for research

[Prof.K.Morsi]

Great news!!

Since COE faculty are  bringing in good F& A, and the college is doing
well, maybe the college/university can invest back and buy a "college"
research license for us dedicated professors. 😀

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Christopher Paolini <
paolini at engineering.sdsu.edu> wrote:

>
> Greetings College of Engineering Faculty and Staff,
>
> Dassault Systèmes, the company that develops and owns the rights to
> Solidworks, one of the primary software applications we use in the
> College for solid modeling, has given us new rules regarding the use of
> Solidworks in research applications.  I'm attaching relevant documents
> for your review, but to summarize, we are no longer permitted to use our
> existing "Education Edition" license while working on a research
> project.  This includes graduate students working on their theses.  I
> have attached the CSU Academic Research Pricing document for your
> review.  If any of you are a PI on a funded grant or contract, and you
> have graduate students using Solidworks for modeling or simulation to
> generate intellectual property or deliverables for the project, please
> contact me so I can work with you to obtain Solidworks "Research
> Edition" licenses.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Chris
>
> ---
> Christopher Paolini, PhD
> College of Engineering
> San Diego State University
> paolini at engineering.sdsu.edu
> http://paolini.sdsu.edu/
>
>
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K. Morsi, D.Phil (Oxon.)
Professor & Director
Advanced Materials Processing Laboratory (AMPL)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
San Diego State University
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San Diego, CA 92182-1323
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