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1. Join an Eco-design
web seminar with Professor Mike Ashby, Sep 14
Professor Mike Ashby will speak on the topic of 'Environmentally-Informed Materials Selection' in an upcoming web seminar on September 14. Sign up now to join this event from your office or home! Eco-design is both an increasingly important part of the engineering curriculum and a topic that generates particular interest among students. Mike Ashby is an acknowledged authority in materials and process education and a leading innovator in the teaching of eco-selection. His talk will discuss the teaching of materials selection in the context of eco-design, including the use of CES EduPack to inform and engage students. |
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"Who else is using this stuff?"
Have you ever asked yourself: "who else is using materials and process education software, and for what are they using it?" On the Granta website, you'll find user reviews, reports, and comments on their use of CES EduPack. The most recent addition comes from Professor Abdelrahman Rabie of James Madison University, who applies CES EduPack to support an innovative interdisciplinary program that incorporates engineering, energy, biotech, environmental studies, information management, telecoms, and GIS. Professor Rabie says "The CES EduPack software helps by conveying with ease the concepts associated with materials selection. Each student is given a copy of the software to use on their own computer. Such access to innovative teaching tools, together with way in which the course is taught, has made the course a popular choice." Read this and other user reviews and reports View a complete list of 550+ CES EduPack customers Would you like to share what you are doing with CES EduPack? Contact us! |
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More universities go campus-wide
An increasing trend that we're witnessing at Granta is for universities to take their software licenses campus-wide. UK universities are at the forefront of this shift, with ten UK campus licenses now in place. Campus-wide licenses of CES EduPack allow institutions or faculties to use all current editions of CES EduPack across as many of their students, courses, and departments as they wish. This makes it much easier to innovate in the use of the software and to propagate approaches that work in one area across the curriculum. The approach helps to integrate courses in which students take more than one module that is supported by the software. There are also administrative and economic benefits for campus-wide use. |
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| 4. Regular
web-based training sessions
Granta is offering a new, regular, web-based training option to its customers. Running every two weeks, fifty-minute 'webinars' provide an introduction to CES EduPack. The events are free and open to any current CES EduPack customer, but are particularly suited to institutions with a campus-wide license, which usually have a regular need to introduce new teachers to the software. |
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5. CES EduPack worldwide - new French and Japanese resources Support for CES EduPack customers worldwide has expanded, with new French and Japanese language resources. The full set of CES EduPack Powerpoint lectures is now available in French in addition to the previously-available CES EduPack Getting Started guide. The Getting Started guide is also now available for download in Japanese. This adds to existing German, Spanish, Italian, and Chinese versions. Overview of CES EduPack teaching resources | Lecture notes (now in French) |
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The 2006 program of CES EduPack one-day training courses with Professor Mike Ashby is now complete. Around fifty engineering educators joined us on our two most recent courses — at the ASEE Meeting in Chicago in June, and at the Technical University of Berlin in July. Evaluations from course attendees were very positive, with comments including "I really liked the many good examples", "Good mixture of lecture-style and hands-on sessions", "Interesting, easy to understand, well organized." Thank you to all our 2006 attendees. Based on their feedback, we intend to organize more courses in 2007 — watch this space! More on CES EduPack training | Contact us to discuss your training needs |
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7. What's Next? - CES EduPack 2007 With a new academic year beginning for many, you may already be looking forward to 2007. The good news is that CES EduPack 2007 will be available in the spring, in plenty of time for you to review and apply new capabilities ahead of the following academic year. Look out for details of new features in future editions of Materials Education news. Of course, to benefit from these advances you will need to ensure that your license for the CES EduPack software remains current. |
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