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News Release from: Siemens PLM Software
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Team on 12 December 2005
UGS sponsors Pace project
UGS sponsors Pace (Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering education) 2006 vehicle collaboration project.
UGS is sponsoring the Pace (Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering education) 2006 vehicle collaboration project The project is a partnership between the corporate and academic sectors to use commercial product lifecycle management (PLM) software to design and develop a vehicle that provides students with experience in new product development and introduction
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 26 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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In cooperation with co-sponsors General Motors, EDS and Sun Microsystems, UGS is providing Teamcenter PLM software to support the collaboration of 14 universities worldwide.
"We are offering our students a real taste of tomorrow's engineering environment today by providing them with this opportunity to learn and experience true multidisciplinary global product design," said Jan Helge Bohn, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech.
"We have more than 110 mechanical engineers, electrical engineers and industrial designers engaged across Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Mexico, South Korea, Sweden and the US all working together with GM designers and engineers using state-of-the-art collaborative design and engineering software and hardware to design a new family of low cost, sporty and fuel efficient vehicles".
Teamcenter provides the engineering process management and collaboration environment to support the project's participants around the world.
Teamcenter's web access and its Windows collaboration environment support the processes required by the program.
"Teamcenter simplifies the learning curve of a PLM system for our students by offering a familiar Windows desktop environment," said Greg Jensen, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University.
"We have organised collaboration among the 14 universities around the functional areas of the vehicle design".
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