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How CES EduPack has changed

CES EduPack has developed dramatically in recent years. It remains true to its roots in Cambridge University and the innovative materials selection and teaching methods developed by Professor Mike Ashby. But Granta Design and Professor Ashby have added new resources and software features to ensure that EduPack supports a broader range of courses.

Close collaboration with a growing community of EduPack users has been central to refining existing resources and to developing new ideas.

The software is now one component in a package that includes textbooks, lectures, projects, and exercises. The software itself provides not only much-advanced materials selection capabilities, but extensive databases of materials properties, access to textbook-style notes that help students to explore the science underlying materials properties and processing, and innovative capabilities such as the new Eco Audit Tool.

Granta has also focused on enhancing its support for a wider range of teaching approaches and textbooks - for example, by embedding references to books such as Callister, Askeland and Phulé, and Shackelford into the CES EduPack information resources.

Today, an increasing number of universities use EduPack across multiple courses, and even as a campus-wide resource. They take advantage of its tools and data not just for general, mechanical, and materials engineering, but for areas like manufacturing, design, sustainable engineering, polymers, aerospace, nuclear engineering, architecture, and bio engineering (see the product information on EduPack Editions).

Not only does EduPack enhance existing courses in all of these subjects and from first-year to postgraduate level, but, as students quickly become familiar with the EduPack software, it helps to make vital connections across the curriculum.

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