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Boeing and Microsoft Pledge $50 Million to New Scholarship Fund

Posted Jul 19, 2011, by J VanDomelen

The Boeing Company and Microsoft Corp.  have partnered to help support and grow the number of Washington state students earning bachelor’s degrees. The state’s two largest private employers are pledging $25 million each over the next five years to the new public-private Washington Opportunity Scholarship program and endowment signed into law by Gov. Christine Gregoire. Together with matching … Read More

Tags: Mentor.com, Mentor Graphics, Microsoft, Boeing, Washington, COTS, Aerospace, Gov. Chris Gregoire, Mil-Aero, Milaero, Mentor, Education, Military, Scholarship, Geek

Mechanical Analysis Products Now in Mentor’s Higher Education Program

Posted Jul 19, 2010, by John Parry

If you’re involved in CFD in education in any way this will be of interest to you. Since shortly after Flomerics were acquired by Mentor Graphics we’ve been working towards getting out products into Mentor’s Higher Education Program (HEP), and we’ve finally got it done. To my knowledge, the availability of potentially millions of dollars worth of commercial CFD software, plus support and training, … Read More

Tags: Mentor HEP, Higher Education, Thermal Design, Concurrent CFD, Education, CFD, Thermal Management, FloVENT, Upfront CFD, Electronics Cooling, FloEFD

Try the latest thing in CFD – Free!

Posted Sep 25, 2009, by John Parry

One of the things I’m responsible for in the Mechanical Analysis Division is promoting the use of our software in education. It’s something I care passionately about and see great potential for our mechanical CAD-embedded tools to revolutionize the way fluid dynamics is taught, particularly at undergraduate level. In part it’s because I believe that if engineers knew what CFD can do in terms of providing … Read More

Tags: Education, FloEFD, CFD, Professional Development, Fluid Dynamics, Free Demo

HDI Training for Fabricators

Posted Jun 15, 2009, by Happy Holden

I’m sure all of you are aware of the rapid progression of HDI technology used in mobile phones, telecom and advanced consumer products.  But HDI is rapidly being introduced into military and space programs as well.  The HDI for military and space has to be ultra-reliable and capable of harsh environments.  The cost to develop these materials and fabrication processes can be quite high.  … Read More

Tags: PCB Reliability, PCB Mfg, Process Control, PCB Manufacturing, Education, HDI, Test Vehicles, HDI Design, HDI Redesign, Quality

Self-Learning Educational Opportunities for Designers

Posted Jun 9, 2009, by Happy Holden

Improving your personal performance is a large topic. But a critical area is high-frequency electrical performance for the board in both signals and plane PDN. Other new trends are incremental design/validation methodologies and the improved use of constraint-autorouting, as well as re-use of circuits and DfT.  More on this in future BLOGS. Here is where I suggest that you start looking for where … Read More

Tags: Education, Courses, Self Learning

How do you get started in HDI?

Posted May 19, 2009, by Happy Holden

A lot of my time is spent helping customers implementing HDI. I also spend a good deal of time teaching seminars on how to get started in HDI. The most frequent questions I receive are: How Do I get Started? How can I deal with a fabricator that states he can not build it to your recommendations? What do we have to do to convince management that this is worthwhile? In response to these questions … Read More

Tags: Redesign, Quality, Test_Vehicles, Education, HDI_Design, HDI, PCB_Flow, PCB_Reliability, HDI_Redesign, OEM_Manufacturing