PTC Education ProgramOverview

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•Global software company based in Needham, MA, USA

•3,751 PTC employees in more than thirty countries

•40,000+ customers

•16th largest software company in the world

Who are PTC?

•Developed the first parametric feature-based design software (Pro/ENGINEER) over 20 years ago

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20 Years of Customer Success

Aerospace/ Defense

Automotive Products

High Tech/ Electronics

Industrial Products

Medical Products

Consumer Products

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Why is PTC committed to Education?

Inspire students to embrace technology and pursue technology related careers

The welfare of our customers is linked to the pipeline of technologically literate students

– Example: many PTC Customers are aerospace organizations. 54% of this workforce is over 45 years old; 33% will be eligible to retire in five years

• There are not sufficient numbers of students in the pipeline to replace them

• Less than 10% of high school graduates pursue undergraduate degrees in engineering. Of the 10% who enter engineering, only about 50% earn a degree in engineering

Prepare students for college/university engineering programmes

BUILD the engineering pipeline!

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Why is PTC committed to Education?

PTC is focused on developing technological literacy skills through 3D design, technology, pre-engineering and engineering programs.

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PTC Education Program

The PTC Education Program is preparing the next generation of engineers by providing leading edge product development solutions to both the K-12 and college/university level.

Capabilities and Benefits:

Build technological literacy

Develop communication, interpersonal and social skills

Improve critical thinking and strategic thinking skills

Increase confidence

Experience project-based problem solving

Become familiar with advanced design processes

Prepare for real-world careers in technology

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Pro/ENGINEER Schools Edition – NEW PRODUCT

Free software for certified middle and high school teachers

Affordable teacher training workshops taught by certified trainers (technology teachers. Upon successful completion of training and follow-up project, a teacher becomes certified.

For classroom and students’ home use

Pre-packaged version of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 with comparable functionality as Pro/DESKTOP; including:

Free tutorials and project based activities with a focus on math and science.

In addition, free classroom resource materials and PTC produced, industry-proven training materials will be available for teachers

• Part Modeling• Assembly Modeling• Drawing

• Kinematic Analysis• Design Optimization• Rendering

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Pro/ENGINEER Schools Edition – Student Examples

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Pro/ENGINEER Schools Advanced Edition

Advanced package for high school teachers

PTC-produced training materials and tutorials and Classroom-tested Tutorial and Multimedia CD.

For classroom and students’ home-use, allowing for additional exploration and learning outside of the classroom.

Technical Support from PTC, via phone or Internet.

Teacher training at any PTC training facility, and access to web-based distance learning classes.

Enhanced capabilities built on top of the Pro/ENGINEER Schools Edition, including 25 additional modules covering the entire manufacturing process, such as:

• FEA Analysis• Manufacturing and production options• Quality checking tools• Peer-to-peer collaboration

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Curriculum material and Lesson Plans

PTC are working with leading educational institutions and teachers to develop:

Interesting project based tutorials for classroom deployment

Links into Math and Physics curriculum (STEM subjects)

A comprehensive program of resources for both teachers and students

Industry relevant curriculum

Teacher training and support infrastructure

Assessment tools

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The Schools Program across the United States

The number of trained teachers in the Schools Program by state

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PTC’s continued focus and commitment on Education

PTC acquire mathsoft

mathcad

– Provides hundreds of operators and built-in functions for solving technical problems.

– Perform numeric calculations and find symbolic solutions

– 2D & 3D graphing

• Cartesian, polar, surface, contour, bar, scatter, and vector-field plots

– Document calculations

– Integration & connectivity with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire

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Top Engineering Universities in the US teach with Pro/ENGINEER

Top Mechanical Engineering Programs* using Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire in the classroom

University Program is expanding nation-wide (Universities in every state are teaching Pro/E!) – and across the globe.

45 of the top 52 Mechanical Engineering programs are members of University Plus!

1. MIT2. Stanford3. UC Berkeley4. U of Illinois5. Georgia Ins. Of Tech. 6. Cal. Tech. 7. U of Southern Cal. 8. Purdue U. 9. U of Michigan10. Cornell

11. Carnegie Mellon U.12. U of Texas-Austin13. UC San Diego14. Texas A&M15. U of Wisconsin16. Princeton17. UCLA18. U of Maryland19. Harvard20. Northwestern

21. John Hopkins22. Penn State23. UC Santa Barbara24. Columbia25. U of Washington26. U of Florida 27. U of Minnesota28. U of Pennsylvania29. Ohio State U.30. Duke U.

31. Rice U.32. Virginia Tech33. North Carolina State34. RPI39. UC Davis40. U of College Rochester42. Dartmouth 43. Rutgers University46. Iowa State U47. U of Arizona

48. Boston University49. U of Delaware50. Arizona State U 51. Brown University52. U of Notre Dame

*1-52 as ranked in US News and World Report (2005)

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TeachersTeachers SchoolsSchools Students Students CountriesCountries

20012001 2,5002,500 2,030 2,030 901,800 901,800 2 2

20052005 14,00014,000 12,00012,000 3,200,000 28 3,200,000 28

20082008 45,00045,000 40,00040,000 15,000,000 40 15,000,000 40

Design & Technology in Schools Program Progress

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JOB POSTINGS FOR ENGINEERS – As of October 4th, 2006

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Pro|ENGINEER SolidWorks Catia Inventor SolidEdge

Statistics courtesy of + One search. One job.

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Wohlers’ Associates Report 2005

• 2004 – Wohlers’ Associates reports Pro/ENGINEER as the leading 3D MCAD system*

• 2005 – Wohlers’ Associates report again confirmed Pro/ENGINEER as the leading 3D MCAD system*

* Based on Installed Commercial seats

Cummulative Commercial Seats (000s)

Catia294

UG NX (Includes I-

DEAS)260

Autodesk Inventor

176

Autodesk MDT150

SolidWorks138

Solid Edge70

Pro/ENGINEER305

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BusinessWeek Recognizes the PTC Education Program

PTC's in-kind contribution is attributed to the Design & Technology in Schools Program, where we have donated our design software to more

than 3 million students worldwide.

Installation and Administration

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Installation and Deployment

The installation of Pro/ENGINEER is different then Pro/DESKTOP!

What does that mean to a school?

What IT issues does that cause?

How is Pro/ENGINEER licensed?

How can I deploy Pro/ENGINEER in my school?

To help users with the installation, PTC has provided a Installation and Administration guide for Pro/ENGINEER Schools Edition.

There are two methods for installing Pro/ENGINEER Schools Edition

On-line method

Off-line method

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Platform Requirements

Operating System Service Pack Processor

Windows XP Professional and Home Edition, 32-bit

Base OS, Service Pack 1 and 2 INTEL Pentium/Xeon family and AMD Opteron family

Windows 2000, 32-bit Base OS, Service Pack 1,2,3 and 4

INTEL Pentium/Xeon family

Platform Minimum Requirement

Main Memory 256 MB (512 MB or higher)

Available Disk Space

900 MB (Pro/E), 1.2 GB (with Pro/ENGINEER Mechanica)

Swap Space 500 MB (1024 MB or higher)

CPU Speed Pentium III 700 MHz (1 GHz or higher)

Graphics Cards OpenGL graphic cards

Browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 or later

Network Microsoft TCP/IP, Ethernet network adapter

Monitor 1024 X 768 (or higher) resolution with 24-bit or greater color

File Systems NTFS

Mouse Microsoft approved 3-button mouse

Distribution Media CD-ROM or DVD drive

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Graphics Settings

Pro/ENGINEER is an OpenGL based application

For the best performance each system should have an OpenGL graphics card

Understanding the user demographic for all edition, it is required that the edition be able to run without OpenGL.

– This is primarily due to the fact that users might be using this edition on home desktop machines and the available graphics cards may not support OpenGL.

– In order to address this issue PTC has included Software OpenGL technology into the installation of Pro/E

• USE_SOFTWARE_OPENGL = YES

– Alternatively, you can use the following basic setting to validate graphic card issues

• GRAPHICS = WIN32_GDI

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Deployment in Schools

The Schools Edition is a node locked licensed version of Pro/ENGINEER.

Each machine being installed must have a unique license file

License files are tied to the physical address of the Ethernet Card – PTC HostID

– This can be found from

• Command prompt and typing ipconfig /all

• Front page of PTC.Setup

For on-line method, the machine MUST be connected to the internet during the installation process.

To enable deployment on a complete lab, the best approach is to use the offline method and generate the licenses for each machine from one system.

– Install Pro/E, create a ghost image and deploy it to all systems.

– Replace each local license file with the newly generated ones.

• <Pro/E Schools Loadpoint>/text/licensing

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Multiple Network Cards

1. Select Start > Run, Type regedit

2. Navigate to the following location –

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkCards

3. Select the first folder under NetworkCards

4. On the right side there will be three items….the second one being description.

5. What is the value? Look at each folder and find the one that corresponds to the Internal Ethernet card…..and rename the folder to number 1.

6. Then rename the others 2…3…4…and so on.

7. Close regedit.

Pro/E looks for the active network card at the time of install and uses that one for the HostID. In some cases, the specific card may not be present or disabled.

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Administration

File Compatibility of Pro/ENGINEER Editions

The different editions of Pro/ENGINEER and the compatibility between them are shown in the next table.

Pro/ENGINEEREdition

Training Schools Schools Advanced

University Plus Student Commercial

Training No No No No No

Schools No Yes Yes Yes No*

Schools Advanced No Yes Yes Yes No*

University Plus No Yes Yes Yes Yes

Student No Yes Yes Yes No*

Commercial No No* No* Yes No*

* Requires the use of the Education-to-Commercial conversion tool, a part of University Plus.

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Administration

Using Pro_Standards in Classrooms

A configuration directory called pro_standards is located the installation directory.

Within the pro_standards directory are the following directories:

config_files

hole_sizes

material_database

part_libraries

templates

trail_files

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Network Pro_Stanards (SE_Deployment_guide.doc)

It is recommended that a school places the pro_standards folder on a server for all clients to connect to.

Benefit:

Central location for standard files

Easy modification and utilization for the class

Teacher controlled

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Administration

Managing Files and Your Work Environment

The most widely used file extensions in Pro/ENGINEER are as follows:

.prt—part files

.asm—assembly

.drw—drawing

.frm—drawing format

A name of any file within Pro/ENGINEER cannot contain any of the following characters: & / . , ; : # % $ ( ).

In addition, you cannot use a space in a file name, as in top bracket.prt. Use an underscore (_) instead as in top_bracket.prt.

Pro/ENGINEER does not differentiate between uppercase of lowercase characters.

For example, when opening a new part, you enter the file name Front_Wheel.prt. Pro/ENGINEER sees and refers to this part as FRONT_WHEEL.PRT, and on disk this part is seen as front_wheel.prt.

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Administration

Erasing Pro/ENGINEER Files

Pro/ENGINEER all file in memory after you save and close it. Erase files from memory when you have finished with them. To remove a file from memory, click File > Erase > Not Displayed and choose the file to erase.

Otherwise, when you open a file, Pro/ENGINEER first searches for it in memory and could open an unwanted file, as the example below explains.

Suppose that you open wheel.prt from C:/my documents/projects/car and then close it. Next, you change directory to C:/my documents/projects/truck and select a file call wheel.prt from this directory. Pro/ENGINEER looks first in memory, sees a file called wheel.prt, and opens that file. As a result, the wheel.prt of the car would open and not the wheel.prt of the truck.

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Administration

Working with Versioned Pro/ENGINEER Files

Every time you save a file in Pro/ENGINEER, a sequential version of the file is created.

For example; if you open a newly created part called antenna.prt and save it, antenna.prt.1 is created, and then antenna.prt.2 and so on with each successive save. These versioned files can consume disk space. Purge files on a frequent basis on each directory with part files, assembly files, and drawing file.

To assist in removing unwanted versions of a file, users can add the Purge utility to the Windows Explorer menu. The purge utility is an automated script that removes all old versioned files from a directory.